London 6 Wigan 44: Broncos bashed aside by wild Warriors - Daily Mail
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Sam Tomkins inspired Wigan to a comfortable victory in London, ruining Broncos' interim coach Tony Rea's return to the capital.
Tomkins scored four tries, created two more and also booted 12 points as league leaders Wigan rebounded from their Challenge Cup exit last weekend.
For Rea, it was a harsh lesson of the job ahead after stepping into the Broncos' hotseat earlier this week.
Easy does it: Matty Smith of Wigan Warriors scores a try
Wigan recalled both Iain Thornley and Matty Smith to their starting line-up after the pair were cup-tied in last week's defeat to Leeds.
For the Broncos, all eyes were on interim coach Rea, flown over from Australia to retake the reins at the Stoop for the first time since 2006 after Rob Powell was relieved of his duties.
But the Londoners were also able to welcome back Craig Gower and Antonio Kaufusi, who sat out the loss at Bradford with injuries.
The two sides had indulged in a ding-dong battle at the DW Stadium earlier this campaign, Wigan eventually edging a thriller 42-30.
And the scoring got underway within two minutes this time round, Tomkins exchanging passes with Josh Charnley to scamper over.
And minutes later it was Charnley himself who added the second score, courtesy of an excellent defence-splitting pass from Darrell Goulding.
Wigan were producing exhibition rugby, and the home defence was struggling to stick to the task.
Turned over: Brocos were ripped apart
The Broncos were struggling to make their mark when they had the ball, although Scott Wheeldon was held up as he looked to muscle his way over after a 40/20 from Gower had given them promising field position.
The Warriors kept wasting chances, though, enabling the Broncos to remain in the contest, with Chad Randall the next to go close for the hosts when he was also held up over the line.
Wigan always looked as though they could go up a gear if needed, but their refusal to do so was surprising, especially when they had cut through the London defence so easily early on.
But with half-time approaching the Warriors did up the tempo, and it was Tomkins again who rounded off a flowing move a minute before the break.
Minutes after the interval Wigan all but killed the game as a contest, Thornley romping over after another clever pass from Tomkins.
Tomkins was not done their as provider, though, laying on the next score for Smith on 50 minutes after another incisive break.
The full-back then completed his try hat-trick, before Brett Finch got in on the scoring act, cantering through a huge gap in the London defence to touch down at the posts.
There was further bad news for the hosts when Dan Sarginson was then stretchered off with a leg injury, but seconds later the Broncos did have something to cheer when Michael Robertson crossed on 67 minutes.
Tomkins still was not finished, though, chipping through and gathering his own kick to notch his fourth five minutes later.
London Eye to be turned into a light gauge of how the nation feels about the Olympics by analysing Tweets throughout the games - Daily Mail
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Opinion on London hosting the Olympics has been varied to say the least with as many people dreading the impending start of the games as those who can't wait for it to begin.
Now the London Eye will be used as a gauge to show how popular the event is during the course of the games.
The London Eye will be lit up each night in relation to the degree of positive or negative feedback to the event on Twitter that day in the world's first ever social media-driven lightshow.
Olympic opinion lightshow: If the Twitter feedback on the Games is 75 per cent positive that day, three quarters of the London Eye will light up the same night
Display breakdown: The 24 minute lightshow will give a run down of what happened at the Olympics that day
EDF energy, which sponsors the wheel, will be analysing comments on the website to determine how positive people are feeling about the Olympics.
If the reaction is mixed the London Eye will only be half lit whereas if the nation's opinion is 75 per cent positive three quarters of the wheel will light up.
The 24 minute show will start each night of the games at 9pm with every minute of the display representing one hour - giving a 24-hour light representation of the nation's feeling toward the games.
The lightshow will also include displays of the Union Flag and gold, silver or bronze lighting, dependent on the colour of the medals Team GB bring home.
Twitter users are being encouraged to give their feedback to the games by tweeting #energy2012.
The lightshow was launched by Daley Thompson, who won gold in the decathlon at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics in Moscow and Los Angeles, who said it means a lot for athletes to know their country is supporting them.
Lighting up the night: Athlete Daley Thompson launches the world's first social media-driven light show at the London Eye reflecting how positive the nation is feeling about London 2012 every night of the Games
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He said: 'Hosting the Games in London is an incredible once in a lifetime event and as a passionate supporter of the Games I want everyone to get behind the athletes and really show their support.
'We need to get behind our favourites to power them onto gold. EDF Energy of the Nation gives you a really easy way to join in, wherever you are and help drive a world first every night on the EDF Energy London Eye - a light show powered by the nation’s tweets.'
Justin Manor, Founder of Sosolimited who developed the technology for the lightshow, said: 'The algorithm we developed converts real-time social emotions into colour and motion – tweets to light show.
How it works: EDF Energy will filter Tweets throughout the day to gauge the public's opinion of the games
'We distil 24 hours of action into a 24 minute visual concert that embodies the emotional peaks and troughs of the day.
'Being able to light up the EDF Energy London Eye every night is a one of a kind of experience both for us and anyone who wants to join in on Twitter.'
Gareth Wynn, EDF London 2012 Programme Director, added: 'London 2012 will be celebrated through a series of remarkable moments that will be captured and shared by millions instantly on social media.
'Energy of the Nation pushes boundaries by allowing people to get behind the Games on Twitter and see the emotion of these key moments represented each night on this globally recognised icon of London.'
If you don't happen to be near the London at 9pm during the games the show will also be live-streamed every day at edfenergyofthenation.com
London 2012 Olympics medal target is 'aspirational' - Daily Telegraph
To allow the athletes to better handle the pressure of competing on home soil, Sir Clive Woodward, deputy chef de mission, said they have prepared videos about other countries' athletes talking about how to cope with the weight of expectation, including some from Austalia and China.
"I think the more knowledge you've got the better chance you have of applying it and the more you can think about this. The longer you think ahead of the event, the better chance youve got coming into this environment, just staying in line and doing your job, reaching your personal best, hopefully winning. So it's no different to taking penalties, it's to understand the process, an understanding of how you should be practicing it. "
The BOA and Team GB officials refused to be drawn into detail about who will be the flag bearer of the home team at the opening ceremony, saying that an announcement will be made on Monday.
London Eye light show to measure Olympic moaning on Twitter - Crave
Oh this'll go well. The London Eye is to be turned into a giant sentiment tracker, with a huge light show displaying how people on Twitter are feeling about the Olympic Games.
It's a move that makes you want to shake someone by the shoulders and yell, "Have you seen how much people are moaning already? What do you think is going to happen?"
Launched by feisty Olympic legend Daley Thompson, of button-bashing 8-bit fame, the show will start at 9pm every night the Games are on. Positive tweets will colour the wheel gold, the Metro reports; negative will make it purple. Eye sponsor EDF Energy reckons it's the first disaster waiting to happen social media-driven lightshow.
There's an accompanying hashtag, #Energy2012, which is already full of rude and politically charged tweets.
"Sorry Daley Thompson, but the Olympics can smooch my wrinkly b******. #Energy2012," tweets the charming @DocHackenbush.
@anarchic_teapot makes a more serious point. "The LOCOG branding rules are vicious, petty and damaging to the image of the event #Energy2012."
"People are going hungry in this country while we blow billions on running and jumping," objects @justmckeat.
Almost all the 'positive' tweets in the hashtag are simply saying 'cool idea' or similar. The only genuinely positive one I could see was @JoelStMethodist, and he's just bored. "Cannot wait for the Olympics to start," he tweets. "So bored of having nothing to watch in the 600+ channels #Energy2012."
EDF assures me all Olympic-related tweets will be parsed by its amazing sentiment-divining algorithm, not just ones on its easily merked hashtag.
Most British people are positive or at least not bothered about the Games, with a survey by Ofcom earlier this week finding that 49 per cent of people are quite or very interested in the Olympics, with a further 11 per cent neither interested or uninterested. I don't know how you can be neither interested or uninterested in something, but I guess it just means 'don't care'. Forty-one per cent were 'not very interested' or 'not at all interested'.
But it's the moaners who run the discussion, who rant the most on social networks, who give reporters good quotes. Not that there's nothing to moan about -- the CNET team is mainly going to be working from home during the Games, because public transport is likely to be delayed and overcrowded.
London has become semi-militarised, with warships in the river and rockets on roofs. And the crass brand policing and naked commercialisation would make Pierre de Coubertin turn in his grave, not to mention the vast expense to us all.
Chin up, stiff upper lip, what what
Despite all this, I think the Olympics is still capable of the most extraordinary human moments that bring us all together. I'll never forget watching Michael Johnson destroy the 200m world record in 1996 (I was in an Ikea in France), or the spectacular vista behind the high diving board in Barcelona.
I laughed in amazement at Usain Bolt winning the 100m apparently without trying. And shed a few unmanly tears at the magnificent Kelly Holmes realising she had just won, after decades of injury and heartbreak.
These are moments to make your soul soar, and there will be more of them here in London. Besides, we last hosted the world's greatest party in 1948 and I think it's well past time we put our hands in our pockets and stood a round.
So chin up, London, put on your best brave face, and try to enjoy it. And if you want to tweet something negative, leave off the hashtag, there's a good chap. I'll leave the final word to good old Daley:
"We want to make the EDF Energy London Eye a spectacular showcase of national support for the athletes -- and one that will inspire them every night of the Games."
Update: A previous version of this story stated that only tweets with the #Energy2012 hashtag would contribute to the sentiment tracker -- this isn't the case.
London Olympics opening ceremony soundtrack to be released immediately after event - NME
July 21, 2012 15:57
Music from the opening ceremony of the London 2012 games will go on sale at 12am July 28
Photo: London 2012
The soundtrack to the London Olympics' opening ceremony will go on sale to the general public shortly after the event at midnight Saturday (July 28).
The music from the ceremony, which will mark the start of the 2012 London Olympics, will be released digitally and will feature new tracks by Underworld and songs from artists who will perform on the night from the Olympic stadium.
As organisers of the games want to keep who is performing at the opening ceremony a secret, Decca/Universal – the record label behind the release – have kept the track listing a secret so as not to spoil any potential surprises. However, last month, a leaked document revealed Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse and Muse may appear on the soundtrack.
Paul McCartney, who has already announced he will be playing a few of his songs at the event and Underworld, who have have been named as the opening ceremony's music directors, are likely to appear on the album.
'A Symphony of British Music: Music For The Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games', an album containing music performed on the final night, will be released digitally on August 12.
Muse's 'Survival' has been named the official song of the London 2012 Olympics. You can hear the track, which will be played when athletes enter the stadium, in the lead up to the medal ceremony and also as the theme for all international TV coverage, below.
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London 2012: IOC chief praises 'country that invented modern sport' - The Guardian
In the week of the opening ceremony, the International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said he was optimistic the London Games would be a success thanks to the enthusiasm of "the country that invented modern sport".
Rogge, who chaired an IOC executive board meeting on Saturday, said he was "satisfied" with the security situation and "reassured" following presentations from the Locog chairman Lord Coe and the government in the wake of the G4S shambles that has dominated the lead-up to Friday's opening ceremony.
Rogge said he believed London's event would be a "very good" Games with its own unique identity hewn from the sporting heritage of Great Britain and the athletes who had arrived so far were "ecstatic" with the facilities.
"What I believe will be very visible is the identity of the London Games," he said. "You could say when we went to Athens that it was coming back to the roots of Olympism because of Greece having invented the Olympic Games; in Beijing it was the most populous country in the world," said Rogge, who arrived in London on Friday. "Going to London, it's going to the country that invented modern sport in the second half of the 19th century, included sport in its school curriculum, loves sport, knows sport well. This will come out of these Games."
However, he added that the "proof of the pudding would be in the eating" and that no final verdict could be delivered until the closing ceremony. The Belgian insisted that the call for 3,500 troops, taking the total to 17,000, with a further 1,200 on standby, to deal with shortfalls from G4S had not affected security plans and called for the media to "move on".
On another of the issues that dogged London organisers last week, when everything from the weather to transport and preparations for the opening ceremony came under scrutiny, Rogge said he was confident Locog would take a "common sense", "subtle" approach to protecting Olympic sponsors.
Coe last week suggested that spectators in a Pepsi T-shirt would not be allowed entry because Coca-Cola was a Games sponsor, although he later insisted he had misunderstood the question. "Individual cases will not be pursued with police, but if there is really a blatant intent of ambush marketing by another company or by a group of people with commercial views, then of course we will intervene," he said. "If you have the T-shirt of a competitor of one of our sponsors, we will not intervene."
Rogge said he had "sympathy" for those affected by the Games lanes that come into operation on Wednesday. But he added: "We know the country wants the Games, loves the Games. We'll try and keep the disruption to a low level."
Rogge resisted calls from President Barack Obama for the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Games to be recognised by a minute's silence during the opening ceremony, insisting "the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident". Instead the IOC will hold a ceremony at the exact place of the killings in the military airport in Munich on 5 September, the date of the tragedy.The IOC president, in charge of his final Olympics before he stands down in 2013, also confirmed that the National Olympic Committee executives identified in a Sunday Times investigation would be free to attend the Games.
It was initially thought that the IOC would try and get interim suspensions in place for the most serious cases, but Rogge said the fact the Sunday Times took two weeks to hand over a large file of evidence made the timescale impossible.
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