GM's Opel will build new Astra in U.K., not Germany - detroitnews.com
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The Ellesmere Port site operated by Opel's British Vauxhall brand will be the lead factory in making the new Astra, to be introduced from 2015, after workers voted to accept proposals for improved productivity, GM said Thursday. "Ellesmere Port ...London 2012: Olympic tickets released to athletes - BBC News
The first tickets to the London 2012 Olympic Games have been released, revealing colourful designs featuring competitors from the different sports.
Athletes have been sent their tickets from the British Olympic Association's allocation and high jumper Ben Challenger tweeted a picture of his.
He represented Great Britain at Sydney 2000 and hopes to qualify for London.
A five-day general sales window closed on Thursday for people who applied for but failed to buy Olympic tickets.
About 1m people, who were disappointed in the first ballot in March 2011 and who failed again or did not apply in second-chance sales in July, were eligible.
The batch included 70,000 ground tickets for the Olympic Park, made available for the first time.
Challenger told the BBC that he "hoped to compete" at the Games, but if not, watching them would be a "great alternative" for him and his family.
He bought two £450 athletics tickets and two £110 seats for basketball.
London Olympic Games organisers Locog said an email with details of the general distribution of tickets would be sent to members of the public later in May.
London rained kippers at Games fit for their times - Collie Mail
THERE was the daily diet of kippered herrings. The incessant rain that made the running track a soggy mess. And the climax to the cut-price opening ceremony when the release of 10,000 pigeons sent the crowd running for cover.
Memories of the 1948 London Olympics, the so-called ''austerity Games'', come rushing back as sprinter John Treloar sits in his study, surrounded by memorabilia of his all-too-short running career.
Here, his white Olympic running vest, carrying the number 74 and a green, sewn-on outline map of Australia. Up there, a team pennant souvenired in circumstances that must remain secret.
And, look at this, a 1937 newspaper report of the first race he won, as an eight-year-old competing for Roseville Primary School in a northern districts athletics meeting.
''I was always a bit quick. And I was lucky to have had the help of some wonderful sports masters,'' says Treloar, 84, recalling how, at North Sydney Boys' School he was warned off playing rugby. ''Far too dangerous.''
Such was his running progress at Sydney University, where he studied mechanical and electrical engineering, that his parents provided for him a professional coach.
And when he won selection for the 100- and 200-yard sprints in London, they supported a pre-Olympics training trip to the United States. ''All my running had been on grass. I needed to practice on cinder tracks.''
He travelled from New York to London in style, on the Queen Mary. ''I was on Z-deck. Lowest of the low.'' By chance, he soon met Olympian, businessman and civic leader Sir Frank Beaurepaire. ''He made sure I dined in first class.''
No such luxuries awaited Treloar and the other 67 men and nine women of the Australian team. ''Being in London was a real thrill, but the place had taken a terrible battering.''
The team stayed in a former airforce camp in Richmond Park before being moved to a suburban technical college in Willesden. At first meals, were cooked in domestic science classrooms. Choice was limited.
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