Wednesday, August 8, 2012
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Royal Mail : Bradley Wiggins Gold Medal Stamp
Hold the vans! Hard on the heels of the women’s rowing success Bradley Wiggins scores an Olympic gold medal in the men’s cycling time trial.
Royal Mail will have a Gold Medal stamp to celebrate Bradley’ gold medal win ready to buy by tomorrow. The fleet of 90 Royal Mail vehicles has been held back and will deliver the stamps across the UK to over 500 Post Offices to be on sale by lunchtime tomorrow.Bradley won Gold less than two weeks after becoming the first British rider to triumph in the Tour de France. He is now Britain’s most decorated Olympian with seven medals, including four Gold.
Royal Mail will also paint a Post Box gold to celebrate his win and the commemorative stamps will be available tomorrow at the Post Office on Cleveland Street in Bradley’s home town of Chorley. An additional 4,700 post offices will receive the Gold Medal stamps within a week.
Royal Mail : Helen Glover & Heather Stanning GB Gold Medalist Stamp
Gold Medal stamp to celebrate Helen Glover and Heather Stanning’s gold medal win in the Women’s Pairs rowing final.
A fleet of 90 Royal Mail vehicles will deliver the stamps across the UK to over 500 Post Offices including in Helen’s home town of Penzance and Reading, Berkshire where the pair live. Royal Mail will also paint a much-loved red post box gold in each of their hometowns of Lossiemouth, Moray and Penzance, Cornwall to celebrate their gold medal win.As well as Helen and Heather’s achievement a fantastic first as never before has a women’s team won an Olympic rowing event, but it’s also the first all-women sports team ever to appear on a Royal Mail stamp. It is also the first stamp that Royal Mail has ever produced within 24 hours, normally it takes anything up to two years from conception to the finished stamps appearing on sale to the general public.
As soon as Helen and Heather won their gold medal, Getty Images, the official Photo Agency of the IOC, submitted a selection of the best images from that moment to the eight-strong Royal Mail design team. The Royal Mail design team had just one hour to review all the images sent, locate the most fitting and atmospheric image, crop and refine the photo, add Helen and Heather’s name, then position within the templated design of the six-stamp miniature sheet.
Saina Nehwal wins bronze medal in London 2012
The 22-year-old Saina was trailing 18-21, 0-1 in the high-voltage bronze medal play-off match when her second seeded opponent Xin Wang retired hurt, giving India an unexpected medal without having to sweat much.
Saina also became the second Indian woman to win an Olympic medal, after Karnam Malleswari's weightlifting bronze in 2000 Sydney Olympics.
With the addition of Saina's bronze, India's medal collection in the ongoing Olympics has gone upto three with pistol shooter Vijay Kumar (silver) and seasoned marksman Gagan Narang (bronze) being the other medal winners.
The packed Wembly arena, which had a seizable chunk of vociferous Indian supporters cheering for Saina, were taken by surprise when the script suddenly changed with Wang getting injured towards the very end of the first game.
Wang got herself medical attention and even went in for the second game but conceded the match after just one point. A thunderous roar greeted Saina when it was announced that she had won the bronze medal and Wang had retired.
"I still can't believe that I have won a medal. In badminton, I never believed that India could win a medal because the competition is so tough. It is a dream come true for me," Saina said after the match.
"I had trained hard and there was a lot of expectation. I initially thought that she was just taking rest as she was tiring, but then I realised she was injured. It's sad that she got injured, but I was confident of beating her as I was coming into rhythm," she said.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Shame on America : Is this Olympic Spirit??????????
The 20-year-old had won 13-11 over
Errol Spence in a thrilling contest on Friday night but following an appeal by
his rival's team management, the AIBA awarded the bout 15-13 to the
American.
"There were a total of nine (9)
holding fouls committed by the Indian boxer in the third round alone. However
the Referee only gave one caution," the AIBA said in a statement after a review
by its Competition Jury.
"In the second round, at the time02:38 , the boxer from
India spitted out his gumshield
intentionally. However the Referee didn't give any warning," it added.
"In the second round, at the time
Based on these "findings", the
jury members "unanimously" decided to award Spence four points, thereby making
him the winner.
"Based on the AIBA Technical &
Competition Rules 12.1.9, the Referee should have given at least two (2)
warnings to the Indian boxer.”
“Although the boxer from
India intentionally spitted out his
gumshield, the Referee's view was blocked by the boxer from the
USA and was not able to see the
action," it international body said.
"...at least four points should
have been awarded to the boxer from the
USA . Therefore the final score should
be 13:15 in favour of the
USA . The protest is accepted and the
winner of Bout 142 is Errol Spence (USA)," the AIBA statement added.
Vikas, only the second Indian
boxer after Vijender to fetch a bronze medal in the World Championship, was
among the biggest medal prospects for the country.
Earlier,
India were at the wrong end of the AIBA
review system when the country's appeal against the close opening-round loss of
Sumit Sangwan (81kg) was rejected by the world body's competition jury.
Boxing at the ongoing Olympics has
been marred by several controversies with AIBA's scoring system coming under
severe criticism.
Two judges have been suspended so
far after protests by participating teams.
Meanwhile, Spence has moved into
the quarterfinals to face Russia 's Andrey Zamkovoy on Tuesday.
Vijay Kumar Wins Silver Medal in London 2012
Kumar beat back the challenge of world champion Alexei Klimov of Russia, the Chinese duo of Ding Feng and Zhang Jian, and German Christian Reitz in the 40-shot final to finish runner-up behind Cuba’s Leuris Pupo, who shot his way to the gold with a world record equalling score of 34.
The 26-year-old army subedar from Himachal Pradesh found the target 30 times out of 40 attempts in the series comprising eight rounds of five shots each.
This is India’s second medal in the current Olympics after fellow marksman Gagan Narang’s bronze in the 10m air rifle event on 30 July. This was also the country’s fourth medal in shooting in Olympic history.
The other medal winners are Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (silver in 2004 Athens) and Abhinav Bindra (gold in 2008 Beijing).
Kumar started with a bang, hitting the target all five times, and kept himself in the hunt for a medal by consistently finding the target.
After a perfect five out of five at the start, Kumar, a double gold medallist at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, found the target four times in the second and third series, but missed it twice in the fourth.
He came back strongly by finding the target four times in the next three rounds and assured himself of a silver. In the last round, after Pupo shot four to clinch the gold, Kumar seemed to relax a bit and missed three targets.
The bronze medal was won by Feng with a tally of 27.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Online Catalogue for 2012 London Olympic Commemorative Stamps
Online Catalogue for 2012 London Olympic Commemorative Stamps
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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