July 2012
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'Are the horses on strike?'
Guardian Sport’s Barry Glendenning is worth a follow on Twitter for his snaps from around the London 2012 Olympics.
horses must be on strike twitter.com/bglendenning/s…
— Barry Glendenning (@bglendenning)
Follow the latest equestrian action - and updates from day 4 of the games - on our Olympics Tumblr and live blog.
The bystanders: photographers who didn't step in to help
What’s it like to witness a mob attack, a starving child or the aftermath of a bomb, and take a photograph instead of stopping to help? Eight photographers tell their story of being the bystander.
Graeme Robertson recalls a pro-hunting protest:
This picture was a taken on quite a violent day. The police were really up for it. The demonstrators were really up for it. Everybody was getting hit hard. I was flung to the floor by a policeman. I was lying there, dusting myself, ready to give the policeman a bit of my Scottish abuse, when I saw a man being wrestled to the ground for not doing what he was told. He hadn’t done anything wrong, but as he was lying on the ground, the policemen were abusing him and being really aggressive with him, hands round his neck, that kind of thing. I picked up my camera and he said, “Help me, help me. Please help me.” And I didn’t do anything. I took a picture – and he got dragged off.
“It’s the morning after the opening ceremony. For two years I’ve felt constipated with secrets, but last night was a pyrotechnic act of confession, and I feel elated. At last I don’t have to talk about “Betty” any more. Betty was the code name for Thomas Heatherwick’s beautiful, delicate Olympic cauldron. She was named after the executive producer’s dog. And so we were liable to get strange messages about “going to visit Betty” and “what to do if Betty malfunctions” and even “burning Betty”. For the last two years I’ve been going round bragging about being the writer on Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony. The usual response is: “Wow!” followed by: “Errrm, what do you mean?” Which is what I asked Danny when he first asked me. “I don’t really know,” he answered.”
—The night we saw our mad, fantastical dreams come true by Frank Cottrell Boyce, writer of the Olympic opening ceremony (via guardianolympics)
Catch up with the Olympics opening ceremony
The opening ceremony - in pictures
Guardian front page: Night of wonder
Read more
Richard Williams: Boyle’s inventive ceremony grabs the licence … and thrills
Peter Bradshaw: It didn’t make a bit of sense, but what a thrilling spectacle and what fun
And…
Follow the latest live coverage of day one at the Olympics now
Your handy guide to the London 2012 Olympics
How to follow the Olympics on the Guardian:
- Every lap, leap, moment and medal on our Olympics site;
- The inside track on every sport from our network of experts;
- If you’ve got an Olympic story to tell, we want to know about it;
- Daily live blogs of all the action.
And much more - too much to mention here in fact, so why not follow our Olympics tumblr and our dedicated Twitter account @GdnLondon2012?
