IOC: Munich has strong 2018 bid
govt support (PA SportsTicker)
By NESHA STARCEVIC AP sports Writer
Britain announces Olympic flight restrictions (AP)
The British government has announced flight restrictions over the Olympic site during the 2012 London Games. Transport Minister Theresa Villiers says only commercial flights that have been subject to full security procedures will be able to fly through the zone around the Olympic Park in east London.
Line from Tennyson to be engraved in 2012 village (AP)
A line from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” will be engraved on a wall in the Olympic Village to inspire athletes competing in the 2012 London Games. The last line of the poem — “To strive
to seek
to find
and not to yield” — was selected by a panel that included Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duff and author Sebastian Faulks.
