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Lame Duckweed clearance for tourist barges on Lee Navigation
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Can the London 2012 Olympics ‘inspire a generation’ to do more physical or sporting activities?An overview of systematic reviewsArticle focusIncreased levels of physical activity are linked with...
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Obesity in the UK continues to rise. Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre for 2011 show there has been a marked rise in obesity rates over the past eight years, coinciding with...
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‘I think the Vitality programme is absolutely brilliant – everything I stand for is echoed in the values of Vitality.’ These are the inane words of Olympic heroine Jessica Ennis, now earning a fast...
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Back to the future? Urban transformation and public protest in Rio de Janeiro
by Matthew RichmondProtesters display a banner of Mayor Eduardo Paes and State Governor Sergio Cabral holding Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ statue hostage. The banner below reads “Who gives the order?...
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London 2012 is still not inspiring people in the host borough of Newham to take up sport. A recent report from UKActive showed that the borough was home to the least active population in England. A...
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Lest we forget - Dow, the company the IOC likes to do business with....'Lawyers with the organization EarthRights International spent 15 years trying to make Dow Chemical pay to clean up the...
View ArticleOpportunities lost - if Boston gets the Olympics
It's a question being asked more and more about the Olympics. £20billion? Is it really worth it? For three weeks? Yeah, it's a lot! What could we get for that money? Jobs, health care, elderly care,...
View ArticleIntroducing OlympicsWatch
Launched in Tokyo at the "Hearing Out the Anti-Olympics Case" press conference on 23rd July 2019:olympicswatch.orgread more
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