LONDON (Reuters) – London is fully prepared to welcome the world at this year’s summer Olympics, the International Olympic Committee IOC.L announced on Friday following the 10th and final visit of its inspection commission.

“We still have 119 days to go but I can tell you that London is ready to welcome the world,” IOC commission chairman Denis Oswald told a news conference in London. “Seven years ago in Singapore the London team presented a very strong Olympic and Paralympic bid.

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) – London is fully prepared to
welcome the world at this year’s summer Olympics, the
International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Friday
following the 10th and final visit of its inspection commission.

“We still have 119 days to go but I can tell you that London
is ready to welcome the world,” IOC commission chairman Denis
Oswald told a news conference in London. “Seven years ago in
Singapore the London team presented a very strong Olympic and
Paralympic bid.

LONDON (Reuters) – Wales swept to their third Six Nations grand slam in eight seasons on Saturday and their 11th overall in the European championship with a 16-9 win over France in Cardiff.

Flanker Dan Lydiate, the outstanding Welsh player of the tournament, was named man-of-the-match for a series of thunderous tackles, one of which forced the turnover which led to the only try of the match.

LONDON (Reuters) – Wales have exuded the quiet confidence of a team who believe they are on the verge of something special throughout a Six Nations championship which could culminate in a grand slam success in Cardiff on Saturday.

Reversing the result of last year’s World Cup semi-final defeat by France would give Wales a third grand slam in eight seasons.

LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) – Wales have exuded the
quiet confidence of a team who believe they are on the verge of
something special throughout a Six Nations championship which
could culminate in a grand slam success in Cardiff on Saturday.

Reversing the result of last year’s World Cup semi-final
defeat by France would give Wales a third grand slam in eight
seasons.

LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) – Experts believe up to 100
undetectable performance-enhancing drugs similar to the banned
blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) have been designed, German
doping specialist Mario Thevis said on Thursday.

Thevis, who is based at the German Sports University in
Cologne, told the Tackling Doping in Sport 2012 conference in
London, presented by the worldsportslawreport, that the list of
“80, 90, 100″ new drugs similar to EPO was not exhaustive.

LONDON (Reuters) – Despite a sorry record at Twickenham with only one win since 1988 when the Berlin Wall was still standing, Wales’s ambitions extend beyond clinching the Triple Crown in their Six Nations championship clash against England this Saturday.

Wales, a small nation on the border of a dominant neighbour, have forged an important part of their national identity on the rugby pitch and beating England has always been a source of particular satisfaction.

LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Despite a sorry record at
Twickenham with only one win since 1988 when the Berlin Wall was
still standing, Wales’s ambitions extend beyond clinching the
Triple Crown in their Six Nations championship clash against
England this Saturday.

Wales, a small nation on the border of a dominant neighbour,
have forged an important part of their national identity on the
rugby pitch and beating England has always been a source of
particular satisfaction.

LONDON (Reuters) – Gdansk, the Baltic port where the Solidarity free trade union emerged in 1980 under future Poland president Lech Walesa, has played host this year to the Wales national team preparing for the Six Nations championship.

The Welsh team held two separate camps in Spala before last year’s World Cup and were impressed by the benefits of an intensive training programme, including the use of cryotherapy chambers where temperatures plunge to minus 160 degrees Celsius.

LONDON (Reuters) – Four different champions in as many years underlines the difficulty of predicting a winner in this season’s Six Nations championship starting at the weekend.

“I’m not a regular reader of the odds but I imagine they’re tight because it’s as tight a championship as there’s ever been,” Ireland coach Declan Kidney said at the official Six Nations launch last week.