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August 25th, 2008

Olympic fever hits London

Posted by: Kevin Fylan
Tags: Countdown to Beijing, , , ,

Riding a wave of sporting euphoria after its best Olympic performance in a century, Britain accepted Olympic host-nation status from China on Sunday with a huge street party in front of Buckingham Palace.

Owen Wyatt catches up with Olympic gold medallists Michael Phelps and Bradley Wiggins as London throbbed with 40,000 partygoers at a live concert to start the countdown to the London 2012 Olympics.

One comment so far

Britan is the next host nation to organize the Olympic 2012,is really auspicious matter to the Briton.The sports lovers from every corner of the world will remain eager as well as avid that, how the sports person of Britain will perform in Managing the numbers of medals? Also it will be asked that,whether the scoring of Britain will be significant as compared to China or not? It is although expeced that,Britain must do better as being host-nation.

- Posted by PRANAB HAZRA

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