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University Committed To County's Sporting Success - University of Derby
www.derby.ac.uk | Feb 15, 2012
...Derbyshire, was previously Performance Director at GB Badminton and was the Badminton Head Coach at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics. He coached Simon Archer and Joanne Goode to Britain's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze in Sydney...

Cameron to attend Beijing fest, organizers say
www.variety.com | 18 hours 42 minutes ago
...much bigger one, as it takes place in the National Convention Center, which was used as the press center for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It also looks likely the 3-D version of "Titanic" will bow in China on April 4, the same day as its North...

PKL Blog: Winter Olympics Trade Visit to Sochi
foodservice-news.blogspot.com | Feb 13, 2012
...experience which includes providing kitchens and catering equipment to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Athens, Sydney and Beijing Olympics as well as the Youth Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and many more similar events. The trip also...

Isner jolts Federer; U.S. up, 2-0
www.post-gazette.com | Feb 11, 2012
...the best-of-five series today. Mike Bryan and teenager Ryan Harrison will face Federer and Wawrinka, the 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medalists. A partisan crowd of 7,000 at the Fribourg Forum was stunned into silence by Federer's first...

How Much Have Foreign Hackers Stolen? - NYTimes.com
bits.blogs.nytimes.com | Feb 14, 2012
...the first to alert American companies to the threat of digital espionage by foreign hackers in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics. In a 2008 travel advisory, his office cautioned travelers that foreign security services and criminals could track...

Constructive criticism: the week in architecture | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk | Feb 10, 2012
...building's underground oil tanks. Herzog, de Meuron and Ai's collaborations go back to the Bird's Nest Stadium for the Beijing Olympics in 2008, so there's a neat symmetry here – not to mention a tacit political point, given the Chinese authorities...