LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Veteran Olympians reminiscing on Sunday, as London began its countdown as host of the 2012 Games, recalled a very different British Olympics 60 years ago. The 1948 London ...
Joe Birrell, who has died aged 94, was one of the last surviving British athletes to have taken part in the 1948 Olympic Games in London, and was thought to be the youngest male competitor; he later ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Photography & Video Show 2025 is to publicly display a selection of images of the 1948 Olympic Games for the first time. The ...
LONDON — It’s been 64 years, but Lionel Price can still smell the newly pumped-up basketballs and hear the squeaky shoes on the court. His basketball uniform is still intact and he’s pretty sure he ...
WELLINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A good old piece of 'number eight fencing wire' helped Ngaire Galloway stay in shape on her trip to the London Olympics in 1948. Just over five weeks on a converted ...
The 84-year-old was formally invited to the UK by the British Embassy in order to revisit the places where competed at the 1948 Olympics and to see how preparations are going for the London 2012 Games ...
How the 1948 Olympic Games came into being, as the world struggled to cope in the aftermath of the Second World War, and the Games were held for the first time in 12 years. With Britain in the midst ...
1948 Olympic swimmer and famed photographer, George Olsen, recently passed away at the age of 88 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Olsen was born in 1929 to George M. Olsen and Ethel Shutta, two famous ...
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