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On August 5th, the Romanian gymnast Sandra Izbaşa won the Women’s Vault Final at the London Olympics 2012 (Bogdan Maran/BPA Images ) Year in, year out, they train up for to 12 hours a day, they run, they jump, they backflip. And the better they do it, the closer they […]

    Africa Village brings diverse African culture to London this summer. The world converges in London this year, with the Olympics acting as an extraordinary inter-cultural extravaganza. In parallel with the Olympics, a rally of cultures runs through the city. Despite heading to London to cheer on their countries, […]

  “Do the Olympics highlight “free and fair” competition, or is it just one more scene in which the developing world’s disadvantages are starkly visible?” This is the question that was on my mind when I watched the Olympic Procession on July 28. Olympiads clad in colorful regalia pranced and […]

Abstract: Talent and hope is present in every woman or man that represents a country in the Olympic games. However sometimes it takes more than that; eventually years of malnutrition will appear and sportsmen will not have what it takes to win a competition. The Olympic games are an opportunity […]

To mark the beginning of the London Olympics, Kenyans did  a street flashmob dance in Nairobi to show their support for Team Kenya at the London 2012 Olympics. If you are in Africa, catch all the games on Dstv Here is the Video, sit back and enjoy the spirit of […]