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Series on Olympic Sports – I

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Field Hockey – An introduction
A team sport, field hockey or hockey is a team sport in which teams of 11 player’s attempt to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team’s goal post (2.14 m (7 feet) high and 3.66 m (12 ft) wide) using curved sticks of 36–37 inches [...]

2012 Olympic Stadiums – London Aquatics Center

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London Aquatics Center, East London
Host of Diving, Swimming, Synchronized Swimming, Paralympics Swimming, Modern Pentathlon
One of the main venues for London 2012 Summer Olympics and the London 2012 Summer Paralympics is the London Aquatics Centre, an indoor stadium where the Swimming, Paralympics Swimming, Diving, Synchronized Swimming games will be held.
Located on South-east corner of Olympic Park [...]

2012 London Cultural Festival (June 21-Sept 9)

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If you want to be at the most happening place in the world, then head towards London.
With the city hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics (27 July to 12 August) and the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games (29 August and 9 September) one can be sure of the city bursting forth with excitement and merry making that [...]

London 2012 Olympics – Gymnastics (Artistic, Rhythmic, Trampoline)

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Whether it is the uneven bars, balance beam, vault or the floor event for the women, the pommel horse, rings, parallel bars or the horizontal bars for the men, the rhythmic floor exercises or the trampoline – the breathtaking sport of Gymnastics requires scrupulous training and assiduous discipline besides phenomenal physical and mental strength displayed [...]

London 2012 Olympics – Badminton

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We are often shuttling between places, between ideas and between decisions but one thing we have no doubt about is that the London Olympics 2012 will be a spectacle of the decade. The Badminton events are some of the most thrilling events with players displaying dexterity and sophisticated racquet movements in controlling the shuttlecocks fleeting [...]

London Olympics 2012 – Diving

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The Diving event at the Olympics lures a huge audience and loud applause, being perceived as a sport of skilful precision, technical excellence and refined grace all demonstrated by the athletes diving from the 3m high springboard or 10m high platform and ripping through the water in split seconds.
Diving as a competitive sport was introduced [...]