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Coe’s company was given brief to bulldoze sports stadium
Sebastian Coe’s company, CSM Strategic, which is undertaking a “consultation” on behalf of London Mayor Boris Johnson, was given a brief to restructure the sports facilities at Crystal Palace to best suit the replica Palace development proposed by a Chinese … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Crystal Palace Park, Sebastian Coe, ZhongRong
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Coe’s Palace consultation is extended due to public demand
Campaigners fighting to save Crystal Palace as an Olympic legacy training venue were claiming a small victory last night, when the Greater London Authority announced that it had been so overwhelmed with responses to a consultation on the future of … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Community associations, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, South London Harriers, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Lord Coe, National Sports Centre, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory, ZhongRong Group
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Coe rival Ovett backs calls to keep Crystal Palace on track
Steve Ovett, the Olympic gold medal-winner and half of one of the biggest rivalries ever seen in international sport, has entered the debate over the future of the Crystal Palace athletics stadium, backing local campaigners, and the athletes and coaches … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, London, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Tory
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Coe is accused of ‘world-class hypocrisy’ over Palace plans
Some of London’s leading athletes and coaches have reacted with dismay and horror at plans, revealed this week, to demolish the athletics stadium and indoor training facilities at Crystal Palace. And there is mounting anger among some senior athletics figures … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London Assembly, Martyn Rooney, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, South London Harriers, Sport, Steve Reed MP
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Conservative, Croydon Harriers, Crystal Palace athletics, Crystal Palace athletics stadium, Martyn Rooney, Mayor, Sebastian Coe, Sport, Tory
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Lord Coe’s company plans to bulldoze athletics stadium
Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic organising committee which promised to create a sporting legacy for London and the whole of Britain, now heads up the company which has put forward plans to bulldoze the Crystal Palace … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Business, Community associations, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Property, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Conservative, Crystal Palace athletics, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Crystal Palace NSC, Lord Coe, Seb Coe, Sebastian Coe, Tory, ZhongRong
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Boris’s plans for Crystal Palace are branded as ‘disastrous’
London Mayor Boris Johnson wants to bulldoze 120 years’ worth of south London’s proud sporting heritage, with proposals to demolish Crystal Palace Stadium which have been dismissed by senior sports figures as “a disgrace” and “disastrous”. It is surely more … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Boris Johnson, Bromley Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, History, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Sport
Tagged Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Lord Coe, Mayor, Olympics, Sebastian Coe, Sport
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Dorothy Tyler: Athletics’ Silver Lady who stood up to Hitler
Sanderstead resident and Croham Hurst golfer Dorothy Tyler was one of this country’s greatest pioneers of women’s sport – two Olympic silver medals and two Empire Games golds as a high jumper demonstrated that. Following Tyler’s death this week, STEVEN … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Golf, Sanderstead, Sport
Tagged 1936 Berlin Olympics, 1948 London Olympics, 2012 London Olympics, Adolf Hitler, athletics, Dorothy Tyler, Golf, Sport
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Dasaolu strikes gold as south London dominates at Euros
Croydon Harrier James Dasaolu tonight won the 100 metres gold medal for Britain at the European athletics championships in Zurich. The 26-year-old sprinter was never headed and finished well clear of the favourite, France’s 2010 champion, Christophe Lemaitre, as another … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Croydon Harriers, James Dasaolu, Martyn Rooney, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Harriers, James Dasaolu, Sutton, Zurich
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Critic of London’s high-rise blocks heads Palace debate
Peter Wynne Rees, the former chief planner for the City of London who recently criticised planning policy across the capital for allowing too many high-rise blocks that were being marketed by developers to wealthy absentee landlords in the Far East … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Boris Johnson, Crystal Palace Community Association, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Planning, Upper Norwood Library Trust, Val Shawcross
Tagged Boris Johnson, Croydon, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Tory, ZhongRong
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Rooney named as shooting witness in Pistorius murder trial
Croydon’s Olympic sprinter Martyn Rooney was with Oscar Pistorius and two other dinner guests in a restaurant when the “Blade Runner” is alleged to have fired a pistol, a court in Pretoria heard this week during the South African Paralympian’s … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Crime, Croydon Harriers, Martyn Rooney, Sport
Tagged athletics, Blade Runner, Croydon Harriers, Martyn Rooney, Oscar Pistorius, Sport
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Olympic legacy turns sour for Crystal Palace athletes
Barely 18 months after the warm glow of the Olympic flame was cast across the capital, and south London’s athletes arrived at the indoor training centre at Crystal Palace sports centre to find it under two inches of water, and … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Bromley Council, Outside Croydon, Property, Sport
Tagged Crystal Palace, James Ellington, John Powell, London, Palace, Picketts Lock, Sally Gunnell
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Boris, the NFL, libraries and precious crockery: iC’s 2013
As we approach 2014 and all that may have to offer, here’s the 10 most-read iC articles of 2013 – an eclectic mix of politics, exclusive news stories, sport, arts reviews and controversy. With more than half a million page views … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", 2012 Olympics, 2014 council elections, 2015 General Election, Andrew Pelling, Art, Boris Johnson, Business, Cane Hill, Centrale, Croydon Council, Education, Housing, Inside Croydon, John Laing Integrated Services, Jon Rouse, Libraries, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Museum of Croydon, Planning, Riesco Collection, Roke Primary, Schools, Tramlink, Transport, URV, Waddon, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Andrew Pelling, Cane Hill Hospital, Croydon, Croydon Museum, Harris Federation, Lawrence Okoye, London Borough of Croydon, Whitgift School
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Follow in the footsteps of “Puff Puff” Pirie: Dec 1
Run in the footsteps of south London’s greatest distance runner in a special race staged over some of the most beautiful country, and demanding hills, in south-east England. Six decades before Mo Farah, Britain had a world record-breaking distance runner … Continue reading
Inspired Croydon Harrier Safo latest to join the golden greats
IAN LAMONT catches up with two high-flying athletes who, inspired by the London Olympics, won medals at the weekend’s European junior championships Inspired by the Olympics? The record haul of 19 medals won by British juniors at last weekend at … Continue reading
Olympic boost gives Woodcote School’s track a flying start
IAN LAMONT reports on the opening of an important sports facility in Coulsdon Evidence of the “Olympic legacy” since last summer’s global sporting showpiece was staged in the capital has been hard to find. The Surrey county athletics championships has … Continue reading
Local athletes running scared of county championships
The Surrey championships used to be a highlight of local athletes’ year, and they used to be staged at Croydon Arena. IAN LAMONT witnessed the 2013 edition at Kingston at the weekend where despite last year’s London Olympics successes, there … Continue reading
“Adonis” Okoye signs NFL deal with San Francisco 49ers
From Croydon Arena to Candlestick Park: Waddon’s Olympic discus thrower Lawrence Okoye announced last night that he has been signed as a free agent with the San Francisco 49ers NFL team. “Proud to announce that I will be signing with … Continue reading
Okoye looks to spin his career for the lure of NFL draft
By Ian Lamont Hearing Lawrence Okoye, the British record-holder in the discus, describe gridiron as “football” was somewhat strange – especially as he seems to want to raise its profile in Britain, where the word has a completely different meaning. … Continue reading
Woodcote school on its marks to get right on track
IAN LAMONT reports on a £800,000 training facility in Coulsdon that will boost one of the country’s oldest athletics clubs Students returning to Woodcote High School in for the summer term are tantalisingly close to being able to use a … Continue reading
An open letter to Lawrence Okoye: NFL could be a dead-end
Dear Lawrence, Interesting piece in the Sunday papers about you and the NFL. I’d just ask: “Why?” You are already a local hero, and a national hero, too. By the age of 21, you have managed to be offered a … Continue reading
May the force be with you: Rugby 7s tournament launched
Does the Road to Rio begin at Hamsey Green? With Rugby 7s an Olympic sport from 2016, the path of a budding Olympic medal-winner might just begin at Warlingham rugby club on “Star Wars day“, May 4 (“May the Force … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Rugby Union, Sport, Warlingham RFC
Tagged Croydon, England, Gatwick Airport, Hamsey Green, London, Star Wars, Star Wars Day, Warlingham
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Dasaolu denied European gold by the thickness of his vest
Croydon Harrier James Dasaolu was denied a 60 metres gold medal at the European indoor championships in Gothenburg tonight by the thickness of his vest. In the first senior international final of his career, Dasaolu did not enjoy the best … Continue reading
Dasalou takes short route to Sweden in search of a medal
IAN LAMONT reports on the latest Croydon sportsman to make some international impact A mixture of excitement and relief accompanies James Dasaolu to Gothenburg, where he is representing Great Britain in the European indoor championships which start today. The Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Athletics, Croydon Harriers, Sport
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Harrier, Dasaolu, Gothenburg, Holly Bleasdale, James Dasaolu, London, Olympic Games
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England Saxons call up for former Whitgift player Daly
RUGBY ROUND-UP: Elliot Daly yesterday became the latest product of Whitgift School to get a call-up to England colours, when the 20-year-old Wasps centre was named in the Saxons squad. The Saxons are effectively the England B squad, with its … Continue reading
