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Olympics & the media

July 2024

  • Sections of the Paris 2024 opening ceremony have received pushback from critics

    Olympic ‘drag queen scene’ DJ files legal complaint after torrent of online abuse

    A lawyer for Barbara Butch says her client has received homophobic and antisemitic abuse after her performance at the Paris 2024 opening ceremony

March 2024

  • Olympic great Kieren Perkins blasts Enhanced Games, saying 'someone will die' – video

    Swimming legend tells the SportNXT conference 'someone will die if we allow that sort of environment to continue to prosper and flourish'

August 2023

  • Celebrity veterinarian Dr Katrina Warren holding a large and grumpy-looking white cat. Next to her, on a riser, is a border collie, lying down politely.

    Three things
    Three things with Dr Katrina Warren: ‘The more dog hair in the brush, the less in every other nook and cranny’

    In our weekly interview about objects, the celebrity veterinarian tells us about the fur tumbleweeds that invade her home – and a suitcase she can’t bear to throw away.

July 2022

  • The Olympic rings light up the stadium during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 27, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

    ‘A Jerusalem for everyone’: was the 2012 Olympics the last gasp of liberal Britain?

    Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London games was meant to be a celebration of Britain’s diverse history and its open-minded values. Ten years later, it seems more like a requiem

August 2016

  • Amanda Meade

    The weekly beast
    ABC source dries up as transcripts of news and current affairs shows curtailed

    Amanda Meade
    Not a good couple of weeks for the national broadcaster: only one key interview from radio programs will be transcribed and its ABC News Twitter account was suspended for showing ‘offensive’ bare bottom

June 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Discovery take rights to 2022 Olympic Games coverage - video

    Discovery wins rights to 2022 Olympic Games coverage – video

  • Clare Balding was a popular host of the BBC’s swimming coverage at the London 2012 Olympics but the broadcaster has now lost control of the rights form 2022 onwards.

    BBC dealt another blow after losing control of TV rights for Olympics

March 2014

  • Sebastian Coe stands with the Olympic Games logo

    Innovative design is undervalued in the UK

    Graham McCallum

    Wherever there is good design you will find a civilised and progressive society, writes designer Graham McCallum

December 2013

  • David Coleman

    David Coleman obituary

    The BBC's leading sports presenter for more than four decades

June 2013

  • British 2012 Olympians and Paralympians composite

    London 2012: British Olympians on the highs and lows of life after the Games

    Last summer, Team GB won 63 golds in the Olympics and Paralympics. A year on, Tim Lewis speaks to six of them

April 2013

  • Jessica Ennis autobiography

    Bafta TV craft awards: BBC London Olympics coverage takes two

    Other double winners include BBC2 Shakespeare drama Hollow Crown and BBC1's drama hit Call The Midwife. By John Plunkett

March 2013

  • Tony Gubba

    Tony Gubba obituary

    Distinguished sports commentator who lent his expertise to ITV's Dancing on Ice

February 2013

  • Mo Farah asked by US newsreader: 'Haven't you run before?'

    Double Olympic gold medallist left bemused by questions after winning the New Orleans half-marathon in record time

December 2012

  • Britain's Jessica Ennis long jumps

    The secret diary of Rupert Sawyer
    Royal pregnancy predictions, Olympic hysteria, BBC crisis ... good luck Britain

    Rupert Sawyer
    Rupert Sawyer: The UK is the kind of nation that adopts the Gangnam craze to promote keeping its sewers clean, so I bid you farewell
  • Women in Film and Television awards: winners

    The full list of winners at the 22nd annual event held at London's Park Lane Hilton
  • Clare Balding

    Clare Balding honoured at Women in Film and Television awards

    BBC sports presenter, widely praised for knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012, among winners. By Vicky Frost

September 2012

  • gabby logan

    Gabby Logan: 'The Olympics was positive for female presenters – we got the chance to show what we could do'

  • London 2012 Olympics official app

    London 2012 Olympics digital chief warns Rio to plan for mobile

  • Peter Preston

    Peter Preston on press and broadcasting
    Clear winners among newspaper websites after Olympics

    Peter Preston
  • John Plunkett

    George Entwistle shows his creative qualities in address to BBC staff

    John Plunkett
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