Monday’s Games round-up: stories from around the web

A few of the Olympics stories that we’ve spotted out and about;

• Police pre-emptively arrest suspected graffiti artists. London Vandal and Vice.
• And in response we have a number of ad hoc artistic street thoughts. Buzz Feed.
• There’s a re-cycling graffiti wall seen at Wembley Matters.
• At demotix we see police denying residents access to their own homes.
• At the weekend eight people were arrested for mocking the Olympics.
• There is an alternative torch relay taking place. Lives  Running reports.
• The Beak Street Beagle calls out the great Olympic con trick.
• The Voice had been banned fro reporting on the Olympics. But they’ve managed to overturn the ban.
• TfL has decided to give serving soldiers free London travel.
• The Wiener Library has an exhibition on the 1936 Munich Olympics.
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in the Independent says the Games do not belong to us.
• The Guardian is confused as to what sort of idiot Seb Coe is.
• Is beard waggling an Olympic  sport? Keith Flett investigates.
• Barnet council are ingratiating themselves to the puublic again by banning the torch after party.
• One way of getting round the Olympics branding problem. Twitpic.
• Londonist has a few other examples of getting round the brand police.
• In font news from the BBC it turns out some of the Arabic Olympics posters are… gibberish.
• The Morning Star on the true Olympic spirit.
• Five MPs have signed the Early Day Motion to open up the Olympic lanes to cyclists.
• The man who starts Usain Bolt, sweet. Guardian.
• The F-Word asks the Olympians to keep their kit on.
• From the torch relays. Kidbrooke Kite. 853. Brockley Central. Londonist. London SE1. Evening Standard. BBC. Video.