OLYMPICS – Team GB vs South Korea

People were unsure whether a football team made up of players from across Great Britain would ever work or succeed but this was put to test as they made it into the Quarter Finals of the Men’s Olympic Football being held at Cardiff’s Millennium stadium on Saturday 4th August, 2012. Prior to kick-off the ever […]

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OLYMPIC ART – Adain Avion airplane art installation

Adain Avion is a mobile art space created from the fuselage of a DC-9 airplane, discovered and transformed by Spanish sculptor and designer Eduardo Cajal. His idea was to recycle the fuselage, creating a vehicle for cultural and artistic exchange, re-inventing the object as a space for contemporary creative action and communication. As part of […]

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OLYMPICS – Postbox painted GOLD for Geraint Thomas

The Royal Mail has decided to issue a set of stamps commemorating each Gold medal winner at the London 2012 Olympic games this year but more interestingly they have also decided to paint a Royal Mail postbox gold in the hometown of each winner. As Geraint Thomas was part of the winning Cycling Pursuit team […]

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OLYMPICS – Cardiff ready for Team GB

Around 70,000 people packed Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium for the latest Men’s Football game featuring Team GB against Uruguay as part of the London 2012 Olympic games.

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OLYMPICS-Photos used on Wales Online

As Olympic football descends on Cardiff again Wales Online have taken the opportunity to showcase a range of photographs taken by readers from over the last week in the Capital. My picture of Team GB as Lego figures infront of the Olympic rings graces the front page with many more inside. (Just dont tell my […]

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OLYMPICS – Red Arrows fly over Cardiff

On Friday 27th July, 2012 to mark the opening of the London 2012 Olympics the Red Arrows flew around the whole of the UK on a whistle-stop tour from Edinburgh to London taking in many major cities on the way. Here in Wales the Red Arrows flew from RAF Valley on Anglesey at 15:58 and […]

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OLYMPICS-Water tower gets a makeover

For more than 80 years the fantastic structure of a water tower has graced visitors arriving via rail to Cardiff Central Station and is one of first things that people see alongside The Millennium Stadium and the bus station! The 15m high Grade II listed brick structure was originally built in 1932 to replenish water […]

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OLYMPICS-Rusty Shackle play at the Torch Relay Party

As Bute Park was closed for the main Olympic Torch Relay concert and the Cardiff Castle moat full of unsavoury types (drinking White Storm today rather than Oranjeboom!) I decided to head to Cathays Park to chill near the Olympic Ring sculpture. To my surprise there was a Cardiff Council event going on complete with […]

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OLYMPICS-Final preparations for the torch parade and party

Well it seems like it’s been a long time coming but the Olympics 2012 is just around the corner and you can feel the anticipation and excitement building across the whole of the Country. (Well if you watch the BBC maybe…) Here in Cardiff the council have erected many banners and flags along the streets […]

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