London’s Olympic Legacy: Can the Games Improve Lives, Not Just Spirits?
After the hugely successful Olympics and Paralympics, London now must try to deliver on its promise of using the games to help transform a long-blighted part of the city
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The Paralympics Opening Ceremony: Oh Braver, Newer World!
If the Olympics Opening Ceremony was edgy, the Paralympics Opening Ceremony traveled to the edge and beyond, encouraging the able-bodied among us to look, really look, at people with disabilities and, in so doing, to acknowledge our own.
Boris Johnson: The London Mayor is the Biggest Winner of the Olympics
London 2012 has given Boris Johnson’s signature blend of erudition and slapstick a worldwide platform and hitched his star to an event hailed globally as a triumph.
Give the BBC a Gold Medal: A Love Letter to Britain’s Olympic Broadcaster
Even as I’ve taken my place in the Olympic Stadium, there’s been a niggling sense that the best views are from my armchair. Dear BBC, you’re even better than the real thing.
Great Britain’s Olympic Golds Win Hope, Lift the Public Mood
A nation that has grown long accustomed to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is feeling like a land of champions
Rafalca’s Horse Sense: What Dressage Can Teach Mitt Romney About Politics
If the Republican presidental candidate had watched his wife’s horse Rafalca going through her paces in the dressage competition, he’d have acquired valuable wisdom.
The 2012 Olympic Games Open with Lots of Bangs—and a Whimper
Danny Boyle’s spectacle was weird in places, patchy, a bit preachy sometimes—but the wobbles made the watching even more compelling.
London Rings
From whiff waff to water polo, Olympic sports are heeding the call and heading home for a great Games
Video: Tom Jones On His Olympics Soundtrack and the Importance of the Games
The singer talks to TIME about his Olympics soundtrack, his famous friends and why a small woman wielding a big sword held no terrors for him.
London: 10 Things to Do
While globalization has sprinkled Starbucks and other avatars of American retailing along most of London’s main streets, you’ll still find the authentic city in the small markets, boutiques and family-run pubs and cafes that …