News on the Olympics from out and about;
- The Independent reports that “Protestors have taken over a large property owned by Olympic Orbit tower designer Anish Kapoor in the first demonstration against the London Games.”
- 853 sees the weekend work on Greenwich cable car in preparation for the big day.
- Are you traveling through London during the Games? Get ahead of the Games.
- Paul Croft muses on sport, equality and the Olympic ideal.
- In a similar vein Lives Running on why people love and hate sport.
- Inside Left on what makes the Olympcs so popular.
- Women from Saudi Arabia are allowed to compete in the Games. Evening Standard.
- There are schools sports days across the country to coincide with the festivities.
- There’s some naughty Olympic street at over at Londonist.
- The Camden New Journal has a good piece on disabled people and the Olympics.
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It is no wonder to me that all those parts of GB, are rebelling as it appear’s to me, that this is not the the GB olympics, but the LONDON olympics.