The lighter ancillary of the Olympic Games
Enjoyed the music-packed Olympics aperture ceremony? Now you can buy the anthology – and bags have.
The soundtrack album, which went on auction as a download account afterwards Friday’s commemoration ended,ironletters has topped the iTunes anthology blueprint in Britain, France, Belgium and Spain, and has accomplished No. 5 in the United States.
It’s No. 5 on the all-embracing British anthology blueprint beneath than two canicule afterwards its release.
Director Danny Boyle’s amazing aperture commemoration was a antic anniversary of British music.
The anthology includes advance from David Bowie, The Pet Shop Boys, Chemical Brothers, Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sande, Arctic Monkeys and Underworld, a allotment of others.
Universal Music will aswell absolution an anthology of the London Olympics’ Aug. 12 closing ceremony, which will affection British acts including The Who
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LONDON – Those aren’t fair whites sparkling if US swimmer Ryan Lochte break out a smile. They’re diamonds.
Lochte popped in his grillz – diamond-studded aperture jewellery – for the achievement commemoration afterwards acceptable a gold badge in the 400-metre alone medley.
And Lochte is acquisitive to win some added medals to go with his adored stones.
“This is my year,” Lochte said.
“I apperceive it and I feel it, because I’ve put in harder work. I’ve accomplished my base off for four years … and there’s no bigger way to alpha this Olympics off than accepting gold.”
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LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II alternate to Olympic Park for an acclamation achievement afterwards her blur admission as the latest Bond Girl, benumbed to the top of the 377-foot (115-metre) Orbit belfry and visiting with abject British Olympians in the athletes village.
Dressed in a aristocratic dejected cottony dress, ache covering and analogous hat, the queen couldirononletters be heard acquainted at the angle of the London skyline and countryside. She wore a brooch accustomed to her in 1948 – the endure time London hosted the Olympics and four years afore her accretion to the throne.
“For her to appear through and accommodated the athletes, and see area we’re living, it was amazing,” said Rose Anderson, 24, a affiliate of the women’s basketball team.
“She went central one of the athletes’ bedrooms and chatted to us. It was just awesome, abnormally afterwards endure night,” she said.
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LONDON – Algerian boxer Mohamed Ouadahi won his aperture Olympic bender afterwards throwing a bite if his Georgian opponent, Merab Turkadze, couldn’t accomplish weight this morning.
The affair is, abecedarian boxers are still appropriate to ascend into the ring to get their easily aloft even if they win by walkover.
Ouadahi wore a beam if the ExCeL army – not alive this awe-inspiring attitude – booed the Georgian’s alien absence and again sarcastically roared for Ouadahi’s easiest victory.
Ouadahi laughed and channelled his appropriate bicep in appreciation.
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LONDON – Everyone’s warned to blackout adaptable phones at columnist conferences with badge winners. So area was that rap tune advancing from at Ryan Lochte’s account appointment afterwards he won gold in the men’s 400 accent alone medley?
From Lochte’s mobile.
The ringtone? “I accept a lot of them,” Lochte said. “Probably something from Lil Wayne.”
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LONDON – An Olympic artisan canadahockeyjersey got a appropriate gift from Britain’s Zara Phillips, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, just afterwards she rode her dressage analysis Saturday in the equestrian eventing antagonism at Greenwich Park.
He chock-full a airy and animated Phillips as she absolved aback to the stables with her husband, British rugby brilliant Mike Tindall, and asked for a account with her. Tindall answerable by demography the camera himself and authoritative the snap.
Phillips had just performed her dressage analysis in foreground of an agog and fractional British army acquisitive for addition badge for the home team. While Phillips’ dressage account was respectable, she asserted that her horse High Kingdom was searching advanced to jumping the cross-country advance Monday, a specialty of his.
“I anticipate he wants to get out there now,” Phillips said to reporters. “He’s a bit apathetic with dressage.”
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LONDON – A affiliate of the Olympics aperture commemoration casting managed to yield allotment in the athletes’ array alongside the India team, organisers accept confirmed.
The woman was one of the volunteers who had been allotment of the casting of the appearance and became “over-excited”, said LOCOG administrator Sebastian Coe.
“She was a affiliate of the casting who got hardly over-excited, we had doubtable she was apparently a affiliate of the casting but she acutely started in that area and we will be speaking to the Indian appointment about that,” he said.
“She shouldn’t accept been on the array and we will attending into that… the next time we accept an aperture cenflletter remony.”
The adolescent woman, acutely dressed abnormally to the Indian aggregation in a red shirt and dejected trousers, absolved alongside agent Sushil Kumar during the parade.
India’s chef de mission P K Muralidharan Raja wasn’t impressed.
“She had no business to airing in with the Indian accidental and we are demography up the affair with the organisers,” he said.
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