LONDON (Reuters) – The Olympics kick off on Wednesday with a women’s football match between Britain and New Zealand in Cardiff, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, hero of the Beijing Games and the fastest man on earth, vowed to win again, declaring: “This is my time”.

The match in the Welsh capital comes two days before Friday’s opening ceremony at the main London stadium but marks the competitive sporting debut for the Games, the culmination of seven years of preparation for the greatest show on earth.

LONDON (Reuters) – The Olympics kick off on Wednesday with a women’s soccer match between Britain and New Zealand in Cardiff, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, hero of the Beijing Games and the fastest man on earth, vowed to win again, declaring: “This is my time”.

The match in the Welsh capital comes two days before Friday’s opening ceremony at the main London stadium but marks the competitive sporting debut for the Games, the culmination of seven years of preparation for the greatest show on earth.

LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) – The Olympics kick off on
Wednesday with a women’s soccer match between Britain and New
Zealand in Cardiff, and Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, hero of
the Beijing Games and the fastest man on earth, vowed to win
again, declaring: “This is my time”.

The match in the Welsh capital comes two days before
Friday’s opening ceremony at the main London stadium but marks
the competitive sporting debut for the Games, the culmination of
seven years of preparation for the greatest show on earth.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain deployed 1,200 extra soldiers on Tuesday in a last-minute effort to bolster Olympic security while global diplomatic tensions started to play out among athletes and politicians three days ahead of the opening ceremony.

The additional troops, which took the military contingent at the 2012 Games to well over 17,000, were called in to cover an embarrassing shortfall left by private security group G4S, the world’s largest by some measures, in the run-up to the Games.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain deployed 1,200 more soldiers to secure the Olympics on Tuesday, as embarrassed organisers scrambled to fill a shortfall left by a private firm hired to guard the Games just three days before the opening ceremony.

Police stressed, however, that they were content with security arrangements for the greatest show on earth, which kicks off in Cardiff in Wales on Wednesday with a soccer match between the women’s teams of Britain and New Zealand.

LONDON (Reuters) – The government deployed 1,200 more soldiers to secure the Olympics on Tuesday, as embarrassed organisers scrambled to fill a shortfall left by a private firm hired to guard the Games just three days before the opening ceremony.

Police stressed, however, that they were content with security arrangements for the greatest show on earth, which kicks off in Cardiff in Wales on Wednesday with a football match between the women’s teams of Britain and New Zealand.

LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) – Britain deployed 1,200 more
soldiers to secure the Olympics on Tuesday, as embarrassed
organisers scrambled to fill a shortfall left by a private firm
hired to guard the Games just three days before the opening
ceremony.

Police stressed, however, that they were content with
security arrangements for the greatest show on earth, which
kicks off in Cardiff in Wales on Wednesday with a soccer match
between the women’s teams of Britain and New Zealand.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain basked in the glory of Bradley Wiggins’ historic triumph in cycling’s Tour de France on Monday and looked ahead with relish to more sporting success at the Olympics, boosting the nation’s hopes after a troubled buildup to the 2012 Games.

Olympic officials announced that Syria’s athletes had arrived to take part in the London Games, ending uncertainty over whether the nation under increasing international pressure for a bloody civil conflict would be officially represented.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain basked in the glory of Bradley Wiggins’ historic triumph in cycling’s Tour de France on Monday and looked ahead with relish to more sporting success at the Olympics, boosting the nation’s hopes after a troubled buildup to the 2012 Games.

But in a reminder of logistical challenges facing London as it prepared to stage the greatest show on earth, commuters using the ageing metro system reported major delays and transport union RMT called for fresh, albeit limited, industrial action.

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) – Britain basked in the glory of
Bradley Wiggins’ historic triumph in cycling’s Tour de France on
Monday and looked ahead with relish to more sporting success at
the Olympics, boosting the nation’s hopes after a troubled
buildup to the 2012 Games.

But in a reminder of logistical challenges facing London as
it prepared to stage the greatest show on earth, commuters using
the ageing metro system reported major delays and transport
union RMT called for fresh, albeit limited, industrial action.