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London 2012 cheerleaders to get jazzy

Every session at the Olympics will be jazzed up with mood-setting videos, music and lighting. Beach volleyball will see dancers perform during the matches. Here's a look at some dancers preparing for the matches.

Ban Ki-moon runs at Sarajevo Olympic Stadium

Ban carried a torch Thursday morning as he ran alongside Sarajevo's marathon runner Islam Djugum, who even during Bosnia's 1992-95 war trained daily, but only after dark, to avoid snipers.

Olympics: Phelps' shaggy appearance hides ambitions

While his American team mates were all clean shaven and dressed in matching white t-shirts, Phelps strolled into his pre-Games conference on Wednesday seemingly without a care in the world.

Olympics: Bhupathi-Bopanna seeded 7th, Paes-Vishnu unseeded

Bhupathi and Bopanna are placed a rung above the Serbian combination of singles' world number two Novak Djokovic and Viktor Troicki in the doubles draw led by American twins Bob and Mike Bryan.

Amitabh Bachchan to carry Olympic torch in London

Amitabh Bachchan has been invited to carry the London Olympic torch.

Olympics: Britain off to winning start; Brazil thrash France

Britain won the first competitive contest of the London Olympics when a free kick from Stephanie Houghton gave them a 1-0 victory over New Zealand in the opening match of the women's football tournament.

Syrian delegation signs Olympic 'truce wall'

As the nation revolts back home, the Syrian chef de mission Maher Khyyata signed the wall, a series of glass panes in the Olympic village while 30 team members waved the national flag.

Bring on the Brazilians, says beach volleyball ace May-Treanor

May-Treanor and Walsh, 33, are the only pair to have won gold twice since beach volleyball made its Olympic debut in Atlanta in 1996.

Australia aim to dent British hopes at Olympics

Britain's unexpectedly good showing at the Beijing Games helped push the Aussies down to sixth in the rankings and even if they fail to pip the hosts on the medals table, they can still hurt British gold medal hopes in several events.

Olympics: Where participation earns respect and wins are heroic

As we all gear up to witness the largest sporting event in the world let us keep the Olympic spirit in mind and truly celebrate the history, dedication, focus and hard work of the worlds’ best athletes who shall be competing in London.

London 2012 Olympics begin today with women's football

The Olympics began on Wednesday with a women's soccer match between Britain and New Zealand in Cardiff.

London 2012: Twitching won't count as false start anymore

The danger of one inadvertent twitch ruining the greatest day of a sprinter's life has been removed after athletics' governing body softened the rules on false starts ahead of the London Olympics.

Attack of the moths at Olympics Village!

warms of moths of the Tineola bisselliella and Tineola pellionella species arrived at the Olympics Village, attracted by a huge blaze of light seen from miles away.

Bolt injury free, ready to defend titles: Manager

Bolt, one of the main attractions at the Olympics, prepares to retain the 100m, 200 and 4x100m relay titles he won in Beijing four years ago in world-record times.

Fancy a bet? Deepika, Saina, Krishnan are Olympics favourites

Betting odds usually give an idea of where a team or an individual stands in comparison to opponents. Here is a list of odds of India's participants at the Olympics. Some numbers may surprise you!

Home waters won't be plain sailing for Team GB

Presence of hardened campaigners such as Brazilian double Olympic champion Robert Scheidt and his crew Bruno Prada in the two-man Star class underlines the depth of the fleet in the 10 events off the south coast of England.

Australian rowers lay down a challenge to Brits

Triple-gold medal winner Drew Ginn cranked up the heat on his British rivals in the men's four with the prediction that defending champion Tom James and crew will have to row the race of their lives to keep up with an Australians.

Big guns clinch Olympic handball berths

World champions France, European title holders Denmark, Argentina, Tunisia and South Korea had already booked their Olympic berths alongside hosts Britain.

Modern Pentathlon: Moiseev targets hat-trick of Olympic golds

After triumphs in Athens and Beijing, the 33-year-old Russian comes into the Games among the favourites to complete an unprecedented treble.

Olympics organisers wanted security men to wear tracksuits!

Organisers of the 2012 London Olympics have suggested that the thousands of security personnel on duty for the games should dress in tracksuits because their regular uniforms were "too intimidating".

'Secret device' to control London ceremony teams march

Several thousand athletes representing 204 nations and the four marching under the Olympic flag will walk at a similar pace with the help of the device.

Tweedle or Tweddle? British gymnast's name confusion

For an athlete who has been competing at the highest level for over a decade and won three world titles, Tweddle would have thought her governing body and her country would have come to grips with her name by now.

Visa glitch forces Sushil to miss out on training in Belarus

India's flag-bearer at the London Olympics only has a single-entry visa to Belarus and this forced the wrestler to make changes in his training plan.

Time to set myself apart from other athletes: Bolt

Bolt is confident he will be back to his best in London next month as he prepares to achieve what no other man has ever done before— successfully defend the 100m and 200m Olympic titles.

Beckham will play part in Olympic opening ceremony

David Beckham may not get a chance to play at the Olympics, but he will certainly have a role at the opening ceremony.

Does London really need the Olympics?

Huge costs during economic downturn, a creaking transport network and a delicate security situation is making people ask whether 2012 was one Olympics too many for the iconic city.

London prepares to fight off 'hacktivists' at Olympics

Analysts say infiltrating the scoring and timing systems at one of the 35 competition venues around Britain, especially the Olympic stadium in east London, is a target for hackers looking to spread political messages.

Pak visa scam puts London Olympics at security risk

Nine people, including five women, were arrested today by Pakistani authorities for their alleged involvement in a visa scam that could have allowed terrorists to sneak into Britain along with the country's Olympic team.

Big Ben to ring for 3 min to herald start of London Olympics

London's emblematic Big Ben clock will ring for three minutes to celebrate the first day of the Olympic Games on Friday, organisers said, the first time it has rung outside its regular hours since the funeral of King George VI in 1952.

Britain deploys 1200 more troops for London Olympics

Britain's government opted Tuesday to deploy 1,200 more troops to protect Olympic venues, after a key security contractor failed to supply enough guards.