Below the fold: Stories on the Olympics that you may not have seen, compiled by Adam Johnson-Eder, notes by Larry Eder

London Olympic stadium, August 2011, photo courtesy of Larry Eder

This was the stadium, as it looked one year ago, as I was visiting London for the AVIVA London DL. Below you will find several stories, some fascinating, some funny, some not so funny, regarding this London Olympics, which starts today, July 27. I asked Adam, my son, to forward to me some of the pieces that he has found interesting as he researched the Olympics in London. Here is the first batch….

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July 27-Roger Bannister, Sir Roger to you, will probably light the Olympic

flame

http://m.deadspin.com/5929619/who-will-light-the-olympic-flame-this-dude-probably

July 27-Some Genuinely Strange Stories that Bob Costas will probably

ignore

http://deadspin.com/5929387/new-zealands-athletes-cant-stop-washing

-their-hands-olympics-news-that-bob-costas-is-ignoring

July 27-Legally Blind Archer Breaks first World record of 2012 Olympics

http://m.deadspin.com/5929559/legally-blind-archer-breaks-first-

world-record-of-2012-olympics

July 25-Under the stuff happens category. North Korean soccer team refuses

to take the field after South Korean flag shown on Scoreboard

http://m.deadspin.com/5929052/north-korean-womens-soccer-team-refuses-to

-take-field-after-venue-screwup-shows-south-korean-flag-on-scoreboard

July 25-Paralympics commercial: If this does not make you cry, and

get psyched, then you are not alive.

http://m.deadspin.com/5926971/this-paralympics-ad-will-get-you-legitimately-hyped

July 25-Bob Costas will do minute of silence as Isreali team passes by-one of

many reasons we love Bob Costas!

http://m.deadspin.com/5928280/the-ioc-wont-recognize-the-40th-anniversary

-of-the-munich-massacre-so-bob-costas-will

25 July: US Zoo to name baby cheetahs after top performing US sprinters!

http://deadspin.com/5928782/olympic-sprinters-will-be-running-not-only

-for-gold-but-for-these-frigging-adorable-baby-cheetahs

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 50-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself."

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