Here are the Olympic-related links we’ve been looking at over the last week from July 23rd through July 24th: Louisville’s Além International Management serves as backbone of Olympic torch run – Boulder Daily Camera – “We wanted to make sure … Continue reading →
This is the first part of a serialisation of Help Me Investigate’s first ebook – 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way. You can download the book for free – or choose to pay a donation, … Continue reading →
As the Olympic Torch Relay enters its final week we are today publishing Help Me Investigate’s first ebook: 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way. A longform report, the book details how the 8,000 torchbearer places were allocated … Continue reading →
Here are the Olympic-related links we’ve been looking at over the last week from July 19th through July 23rd: Police rapped for wasting time on Olympic protest calls | This is Cornwall – "I can confirm that 18 people were … Continue reading →
Here are the Olympic-related links we’ve been looking at over the last week from July 18th through July 19th: The Olympic Police’s War on Graffiti | VICE – I asked one of the officers if it had something to do … Continue reading →
Following our post on July 6 on THES’s report on vice chancellors carrying the Olympic torch, we can provide further background on the processes used to allocate torchbearer places. At Brunel University a spokesperson explains: Two places were for students … Continue reading →
Here are the Olympic-related links we’ve been looking at over the last week from July 12th through July 17th: Sam Fraser: The Torch Relay – The Olympic Ideal in Flames- And then arrives a convoy of coaches. One badged with … Continue reading →
German daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel has published a story on German executives carrying the Olympic torch after spotting our list of ‘mystery torchbearers‘ on the Guardian’s datablog. The story, entitled ‘The Olympics and Samsung: Questionable selection of torchbearers’, was published … Continue reading →
A couple of newspapers recently reported on the number of Germans carrying the torch as it makes its way through Bognor – but neither identifies why they’re carrying the torch. We can reveal that a number work for or have … Continue reading →
The mystery of story-less Olympic torchbearer Aslan Khabliev has been picked up by Isle of Wight news site Ventnor Blog. The site reports that although Khabliev – who is likely to be this director of Sky Media among other things … Continue reading →