The blistering pace of the Brownlees
Tim Porter, Senior Research Executive (Communisations and Development) went to see the Olympic Triathlon in Hyde Park on 7 August and shares his experiences: “With free-to-view spots across Hyde Park...
View ArticlePulling together for the Games
Over the last two weeks the Imperial community has cheered on two of its own student competitors, played host to 14 Olympic teams training at Ethos and been in the stands for everything from the...
View ArticleThe Closing Ceremony – surreal but spectactular
Pamela Agar, Head of Digital and Creative Media (Communications and Development), shares her experiences of reluctantly going to the Olympic Closing Ceremony on 12 August at the Olympic Stadium: “I’m...
View ArticleMen’s 50km walk race at the Mall
“Wearing red, white and blue, waving our national Chilean flag and blowing my tricolour trumpet, my boyfriend and I headed to the Mall.” Research Assistant in Nutritional Epidemiology, Deborah Navarro...
View ArticleHigh fives, gold medals and questionable sustainability
Lorenz Gruber (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) reminisces about being an Olympic handball volunteer for three weeks. “Now it is over, what a fantastic event it was! It is sad that it is over...
View ArticleBells and glory at the Handball final
Anne Helene Harbitz reports on going to see Olympic Handball final with her parents and husband Andy Roland-Price, Head of Group Accounts in the Finance Division. “When we first told my handball...
View ArticlePick up your Olympic special edition!
After all the doom-laden media fears in the run-up to July, the reality of the Games has been both a relief and utterly fantastic. From the thousands who flocked to support the torch bearer relay and...
View ArticleFirst ever issue of Reporter!
The latest edition of Reporter on the stands today will be the publication’s 250th edition! We took a look back at the first four page edition, published 14 February 1995 to see how things had...
View ArticleOlympic tales
Most of us mere spectators won’t be forgetting the London 2012 Olympic Games in a hurry but, for the volunteers who put in hours of work to make the Games happen, the memories of their hands-on...
View ArticleImperial launches new-look interactive news service
Imperial College London has launched a brand new interactive news website. Imperial News is modelled closely on established news websites such as the BBC but will be unique in the UK university...
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