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Top of the podium

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, May 23, 2012 — Sport

Team GB Women's Judo Fighter

With just a few months to go until London 2012, judokas from around the world have been getting a taste of what to expect while competing at this month’s London British Open judo competition. Sophie Cox, who fights in the -52kg category, describes what it was like to be part of a GB team that…

The Bard, Assassins and a metal gymnast

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, May 17, 2012 — Culture

Digital Projects Director

Digital Projects Director Jo Morrison continues her blog series on how the University of the Arts London (UAL) – which is comprised of six colleges: Central Saint Martins (CSM); London College of Fashion (LCF); London College of Communication LCC); and Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges of Art and Design – is embracing the creative opportunities…

My Gold Challenge Goals

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, May 4, 2012 — Sport

Policy Advisor in the DCMS Sports team

Colin Gibson, a Policy Advisor in the DCMS Sports team, is used to providing expert advice on Olympic and Paralympic sport and athletes. But this year he’s clocking up hours of training himself after signing up for the Gold Challenge.

Riding the slipstream

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, April 25, 2012 — Sport

Team GB cyclist and Women’s Team

Team GB cyclist and Women’s Team Pursuit World title and record holder Joanna Rowsell tells us about her journey to 2012 and flies the flag for women’s cycling.

It was 20 years ago today…

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, April 11, 2012 — Culture

DCMS Deputy Head of News

As DCMS celebrates its twentieth birthday, our Deputy Head of News (and 1992 veteran) Toby Sargent looks back on two decades of life as the Whitehall guardians of the nation’s ‘glittering trinkets’…

Bigger and better – what the new Europa Centre means to me

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, March 26, 2012 — Sport

Seventeen-year-old weightlifter and Olympic hopeful

Seventeen-year-old weightlifter and Olympic hopeful Zoe Smith began her career with the Europa Gym Club, which was based on an industrial estate on the outskirts of East London. Thanks to funding from the Olympic Delivery Authority and Sport England, the club is getting a new state-of-the-art home, which officially opened this month.

Football with Cairo’s street children

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, February 23, 2012 — Sport

Legacy Team at the Government Olympic Executive

Last month Egypt became the twentieth country to join London 2012’s International Inspiration programme to help countries improve their sports provision. Ian O’Neill, from the Legacy Team at the Government Olympic Executive, travelled to the country to find out more about how sport can help the thousands of children trying to eke out an existence…

Shakespeare, sculpture and sustainable fashion

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, February 14, 2012 — Culture

Digital Projects Director

Jo Morrison, Digital Projects Director at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, continues her blog series looking at how her institution and the other colleges that make up the University of the Arts London are embracing the creative and cultural opportunities offered by London 2012.