21/12/2012
IOC ACTIVITIESPRESIDENT On 17 December in Brussels, IOC President Jacques Rogge attended the ceremony to award the National Sporting Merit Trophy to Evi Van Acker, a sailing medallist in the European...
London 2012 was truly a spectacle of sporting achievement that took over the British capital earlier this summer, uniting the whole world for two weeks and inspiring youngsters everywhere. The excitem...
"As we look back on the past year and ahead to 2013, it is also a good time to take a broader view of where the Olympic Movement has been and where it is going. Because our Movement is rooted in ancie...
20/12/2012
The Olympic Youth Development Centre in Lusaka, Zambia, continued to make an impact on the lives of young people this month when it hosted the swimming, judo and track and field events of the Zone Six...
18/12/2012
With 2012 drawing to a close, Olympic.org decided to look back on a truly memorable year by asking Olympic fans on Facebook what their favourite moments were from the London 2012 Olympic Games. After ...
17/12/2012
The IOC has taken note of the results of the Elective General Assembly of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Panama, which took place on 16 December 2012, and congratulates Mr Camilo Amado on his...
14/12/2012
IOC ACTIVITIES PRESIDENT On 12 December in Madrid (Spain), IOC President Jacques Rogge took part in the Spanish NOC’s centennial gala celebrations in the presence of the Prince of Asturias. The IOC ...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was saddened to learn of the death of IOC honorary member Maurice Herzog at the age of 93. Herzog became an IOC member in 1970, a position he held for a quar...
The RusSki Gorki Jumping Centre, which will be used during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, welcomed the world’s leading ski jumpers for the first time from 8-9 December as the newly-built venue h...
The world’s leading figure skaters have revealed their admiration for Sochi’s Iceberg Skating Palace – one of the venues for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games – after they competed in the ISU Grand Prix o...
London – 1 August 2012: In the space of less than a month, Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France, then became Olympic time trial champion in front of a home crowd. Here he poses with his gold medal, holding aloft the British flag, with the pride of winning of his fourth gold medal at three Olympic Games, but his very first on the road.
London – 1 August 2012: Great Britain’s Bradley Wiggins (gold), flanked by Germany’s Tony Martin (silver) and his fellow countryman Chris Froome (bronze) on the podium for the men’s road time trial, in front of Hampton Court Palace in Richmond-Upon-Thames, Greater London. Wiggins won this event to take his fourth Olympic gold medal, but the first on the road... only a few days after completing the Tour de France on the Champs Elysées wearing the yellow jersey.
London – 1 August 2012: untouchable in the time trial, crowned Olympic champion for the fourth time in his career, but the first time on the road, Great Britain’s Bradley Wiggins triumphant before his home crowd after winning with a 42-second lead over Germany’s Tony Martin at the end of the 44km race. He raised his arms and continued in the clamour to Hampton Court Palace where he was awarded his gold medal.
London – 1 August 2012: On the track, Great Britain’s Bradley Wiggins is a three-time Olympic gold medallist in the individual and team pursuit, and six-time world champion. On the road, he had just won the Tour de France. Supported by a host of people, he broadly dominated the individual time trial over the 44km route in the South West of London, finishing in a time of 50:39.54, some 42 seconds ahead of Germany’s Tony Martin to win his fourth title and his seventh medal in three Olympic Games.
London - 7 August 2012: Iran’s Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei (in red) faces Russia’s Rustam Totrov in the final of the Greco-Roman wrestling 96kg category at the ExCeL Arena. Rezaei won 2-0 (2-0, 1-0), taking one of Iran’s three gold medals in wrestling at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
London - 7 August 2012: Iran’s Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei is knocked over by his coach on the mat at the ExCel Arena after his 2-0 (2-0, 1-0) victory in the final of the Greco-Roman wrestling 96kg category against Russia’s Rustam Totrov. Rezaei took one of Iran’s three gold medals in wrestling at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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