London 2012

Host city	London
Date	Jul 27 - Aug 12, 2012
Local time	(UTC)
Currency	Pound sterling, £ (GBP)

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Wind: NNE at 6 mph

Luisa Fernandez of British Airways: National pride fuels our longstanding support for the Games

Fact of the day

Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame at Tokyo in 1964, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb was dropped on that city.

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Efficient dynamics and securing maximum performance for minimal energy expenditure are critical to an athletes' performance. Similarly, these elements are at the heart of BMW's sustainable motoring initiative making them the perfect partner to London 2012, as David Owen reports

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