Niamh Clarke-Willis open stadium in Stratford:London Olympic
The 9-year-old girl, Niamh Clarke-Willis, chosen among the first 100
youngsters to open stadium in Stratford, pressed a button releasing
hundreds of balloons with Lord Sebastian Coe, the head of the Locog
organizing committee.“We want thousands of young people to be inspired to take up sport.
We hope that for a few of them it will be the start of their journey,”
BBC quoted Coe as saying, who wants his country’s athletes to take the
most of the medals. Britain had last finished fourth in the medals table in
Paris in 1924, and slipped as low as 36th at the 1996 Olympics in
Atlanta.reports bbc
Russian athletes have been set a minimum target of 25 gold medals at the London Games this summer, its Olympic committee chief Alexander Zhukov said Thursday.
The country is setting its sights on a top-three place in the medal table, and Zhukov insisted that at least two dozen golds were needed to finish ahead of host nation Britain.
"We are setting the task of falling in the world's strongest trio of teams," Zhukov said. "Twenty-five gold medals, I think, is the minimum that will allow us to finish the Olympic Games in London among the world's three strongest sporting powers."
Russia won 23 gold in Beijing at the last Games in 2008, behind China's 51 gold and the United States' 36. Britain was fourth with 19.
Russia’s swimmers should aim to win seven medals at the Olympic Games in London this summer, including at least one gold, head coach Andrei Vorontsov said Tuesday.
Russia has only ever reached this standard once with an eight-medal haul in Atlanta in 1996, and the last three Olympics have yielded a total of just seven medals.
“In our plan we have seven medals, one of them gold,” Vorontsov said.
Media agencies
Russian athletes have been set a minimum target of 25 gold medals at the London Games this summer, its Olympic committee chief Alexander Zhukov said Thursday.
The country is setting its sights on a top-three place in the medal table, and Zhukov insisted that at least two dozen golds were needed to finish ahead of host nation Britain.
"We are setting the task of falling in the world's strongest trio of teams," Zhukov said. "Twenty-five gold medals, I think, is the minimum that will allow us to finish the Olympic Games in London among the world's three strongest sporting powers."
Russia won 23 gold in Beijing at the last Games in 2008, behind China's 51 gold and the United States' 36. Britain was fourth with 19.
Russia’s swimmers should aim to win seven medals at the Olympic Games in London this summer, including at least one gold, head coach Andrei Vorontsov said Tuesday.
Russia has only ever reached this standard once with an eight-medal haul in Atlanta in 1996, and the last three Olympics have yielded a total of just seven medals.
“In our plan we have seven medals, one of them gold,” Vorontsov said.
Media agencies
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