Hello again!
Apologies to our regular readers but we have been very busy here at Road to 2012. As you will know if you have read the ‘About’ section, we are all students, and the last month has been a hectic one, with exams being taken, and deadlines needing to be met. However that is all out of the way now, which means Road to 2012 can continue to bring you the best Olympic stories.
Let’s just fill you in on some of the news you may have missed over the last month.
* The IOC has approved a proposal to move boxing to Wembley during the Olympics, saving an estimated £20 million for organisers.
* Record crowds lined the streets for this year’s London Marathon to see Sammy Wanjiru of Kenya come home in a course record of 2 hours 5 minutes. They were also treated to Britain’s Mara Yamauchi (Japanese husband) finishing second in the women’s race.
* Olympic 1500m champion Rashid Ramzi (pictured right), was one of six athletes to test positives for a new type of blood boosting drug.
* After we discussed it on the Road to 2012 podcast, Tom Daley was offered a scholarship to the exclusive Plymouth College, to avoid the bullying and jibes from his current schoolmates.
* Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt was injured in a car crash, and had to undergo a small operation on his foot. However he recovered enough to win the Manchester Street Race in a record time.
* Former Olympic champion Jason Queally is to switch from able bodied racing to take part in the 2012 Paralympic Games, as a sighter for partially sighted rider Anthony Kappes.
Hope that has brought you up to speed with recent events, and hopefully the next update won’t take quite so long!
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