Paralympics visit Tottenham August 28, 2012 THE Paralympics 2012 officially kick off today, and the Dutch seven-a-side football team were having a warm up game yesterday. Not at the Olympic Park, but on another newly created pitch in Tottenham. The team was playing to mark the launch of Cruyff Court, a state-of-the-art games area at the Ferry Lane Estates that has [...]
The financial sector is vital to unlocking Britain’s potential for growth August 19, 2012 AFTER an incredible couple of weeks for the UK, the first leg of London 2012 has drawn to a close. It has shown the very best of Britain, with athletes from over 200 countries coming to demonstrate their excellence. Team GB excelled, just as Britain excels in business. There’s an old joke that the British [...]
Strike appose August 15, 2012 ■ CHICFEED If you love fashion blogs but find it hard to keep track of the many hundreds of thousands out there then chicfeed is the app for you. This gathers together the top fashion blogs from the likes of The Sartoralist, Face Hunter and Cherry Blossom Girl and collates them all into one feed. [...]
Don’t fret: it’s not long until City A.M.’s own Olympics August 13, 2012 FOR many, yesterday was like the hangover one suffers after an excessive night out. The Games are over, the post-Games post mortem has begun. The arguments are many. How do we inspire children to take up more sport? What will happen to the Olympic Park once the Paralympics Games finish in a few weeks’ time? [...]
Goldman Sachs is the Olympic champion in prediction game August 13, 2012 MOST of us spent the last two weeks being constantly surprised by the record-breaking performances of Team GB athletes at the Olympics. But The Capitalist would like to award its own gold medal to two men who fully expected this – Goldman Sachs analysts José Ursúa and Kamakshya Trivedi. Last month the two men used [...]
Success and failure: The line is very fine August 12, 2012 THE road to success is not only long and winding, but it can also be rather rocky. There are always obstacles to trip you up along the way – and many are outside of your control. Consider the example of London businesses selling bicycles. When the Mayor of London launched his eponymous Boris bikes with [...]
For the love of the Games: London’s Olympics heroes August 8, 2012 THE country’s heroic athletes may have grabbed all the headlines, but they are far from the only Britons to have risen to the challenge of making the London 2012 Olympics such an overwhelming, mood-boosting success. There is another group of people, which has brought every bit as much sunshine into the lives of Londoners, and [...]
London Olympics 2012: Now is the time for sport to take centre stage July 26, 2012 WHAT persuades a normally rational person to part with hard-earned cash to watch Turkey play Angola in the preliminary stages of a women’s basketball tournament? With apologies to the female basketball players of said countries, and the otherwise right-thinking friend of mine in question, it can only be the excitement of a home Olympics. It’s [...]
Sports Direct hits bonus goal as JJB struggles July 19, 2012 SPORTS Direct won a game of two halves on the high street yesterday, with a flair for discounting and online retail helping it trounce sales at ailing rival JJB Sports, which made a plea for fresh funding. Sports Direct, controlled by billionaire Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, yesterday said its underlying pre-tax profit rose 17.3 [...]
Diving deep into the void July 19, 2012 IT’S dark side of the moon stuff, it’s like exploration.” So says Sebastien Murat, the free-diver, of life at the bottom of an ultra-deep plunge into the void. “There’s no one down there with me, and the idea of actually having air is really completely foreign.” Murat, a 43-year-old Australian, now lives in a tiny [...]