Assortment of stories from the London 2012 Olympics:
London 2012: US Ralph Lauren uniform made in China — BBC News
Wimbledon braced for purple haze — AFP
The Olympic Tennis Event will be an encore of this year's Wimbledon Championships – minus all the tradition. The All England Club, usually decorated in dark green, will be adorned with purple livery along with huge sponsor logos. Also, players won't have to wear white and will likely dress in their national colours.
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| All England Club, Wimbledon, decked in purple. (Reuters) |
The revelation that uniforms to be worn by U.S. athletes at the Olympics drew "bipartisan" disapproval from top lawmakers. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) said the U.S. Olympic Committee "should be ashamed of themselves." House Speaker John Boehner (R) tersely remarked, "You'd think they'd know better." Everyone's sounding desperate to score cheap points.
Will you still medal in the morning? — ESPN The Magazine
The real Olympic Games take place in the Olympic Village:
"The next morning," [U.S. Olympic target shooter Josh] Lakatos says, "swear to God, the entire women's 4x100 relay team of some Scandinavian-looking country walks out of the house, followed by boys from our side. And I'm just going, 'Holy crap, we'd watched these girls run the night before.'"We need more epic stories such as these.
Wimbledon braced for purple haze — AFP
The Olympic Tennis Event will be an encore of this year's Wimbledon Championships – minus all the tradition. The All England Club, usually decorated in dark green, will be adorned with purple livery along with huge sponsor logos. Also, players won't have to wear white and will likely dress in their national colours.
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