BritishSports.com are pleased to announce the launch of the Heroes of Sport website: www.heroesofsport.com.

The aim of  BritishSports.com is to bring you the best value sports books you’ll find on the web.  The website offers free delivery within the U.K. and are confident they will not be beaten on price!

The focus of the website is on a core range of the latest books, be they football, rugby, London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics together with other popular sports titles.

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To celebrate the launch of the Heroes of Sport website Buzzin Media & SportMatters Group are offering 3 Olympic books to one lucky winner.

Olympic & World Records 2012
The Greatest British Olympians & Paralympians
A Team GB children’s colouring book

To enter our Free 2012 Olympic Games Books Competition simply answer the following question:

Where was the 2008 Summer Olympic Games held?

PLEASE NOTE: THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED

Send your entries to comps@buzzinmedia.co.uk with ‘2012 Olympic Games Books’  in the subject line (any other subject title will be not be entered) with your answer and your full address and contact telephone number.

This Buzzin Sports competition ends on 6th December, 2011. The editor will randomly choose one lucky winner.

The editor’s choice is final.

Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games (ROSO) has launched in beta today, and is a unique learning resource aimed at academics, students, lecturers, researchers, athletes, coaches, journalists, policy-makers and anyone interested in the Games.

Containing over 1,000 published book chapters and articles, blogs, reading lists, case studies and interviews with Olympic and Paralympic experts and athletes including Dame Kelly Holmes, ROSO will release over 40 new journal special issues and several new books devoted to the Games. The site will be regularly updated with new content as it publishes and a selection of material will be made free to access.

ROSO’s Managing Editor, Dr Vassil Girginov of Brunel University, UK, has assigned a theme to every book chapter and article, allowing the user to search their area of interest. ROSO themes include: the media, education, gender, politics, history, governance, management, law, business, ethics, legacies, the environment, athletic performance, security and disability sport.

Dr Vassil Girginov, Managing Editor of ROSO, comments:
“This new interactive research and teaching platform represents a new phase in the global development of Olympic studies and naturally builds on a century-long tradition and the contributions of a myriad of scholars from all over the world. For the first time in history, a leading academic publisher that is Routledge has committed to specifically promote studies in Olympism in a truly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way. We invite you to browse, explore, comment, share and contribute to the Platform. Enjoy your Olympic explorations with Routledge Online Studies on the Olympic and Paralympic Games.”

Routledge publishes hundreds of journals and thousands of new books each year, from offices all over the world. Our current publishing programme encompasses the liveliest texts, and the best in research, with over 35,000 books in print.

Routledge has the largest and most comprehensive publishing programme in Sport and Leisure Studies. Our journals and books cover the full breadth of the discipline, including: sport science, sport medicine, physical education, sport coaching, sport management, sport development, sport technology and engineering, research methods in sport, and the history, politics, sociology and philosophy of sport.

Routledge has been publishing research on Olympic and Paralympic Studies for over 40 years. For more information visit www.routledgeonlinestudies.com.

One Year to go to London 2012 Olympic Games

Seb Coe & Colin Jackson mark the first steps to London 2012 exactly one year to go to the start of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Lord Sebastian Coe, Olympian Colin Jackson CBE and Minister for Sport and the Olympics Hugh Robertson today join Eurostar in welcoming hundreds of Olympic fans and athletes from across Europe to London’s St Pancras International station as the 2012 host city marks the start of the ‘One year to go’ celebrations.

Over the last few months, thousands of Olympic fans have entered competitions to win the chance to be part of Eurostar’s ‘One year to go’ celebrations.  Arriving from countries including France, and Belgium, competition winners and athletes will be joined by winners from the UK to be greeted by Seb Coe and Colin Jackson and join them in having their foot prints cast in clay as they symbolically mark the first steps on the way to the 2012 Games.

Following a welcome speeches from Seb Coe and the Olympic Minister, Hugh Robertson, winners will then be transported across London to a celebration lunch held at an iconic London restaurant with stunning views over the Olympic Park where Colin Jackson will be their host for the remainder of their unique experience.

Olympian Mark Foster with the 2012 Olympic Torch

Four-time Olympic Champion Sir Chris Hoy and Olympian Mark Foster have called on the nation to recognise people who have made a difference in their local communities, by nominating them to carry the Olympic Flame.

The Olympic Torch Relay will be a 70-day celebration starting at Land’s End on 19 May 2012, travelling thousands of miles and bringing the spirit and inspiration of the London 2012 Games to hundreds of communities across the UK. From today, Lloyds TSB is inviting the public to nominate somebody who’s made a difference in their local community and inspired others, for the once in a lifetime opportunity to be an Olympic Torchbearer.

To help communities share in the excitement of the Torch Relay, Lloyds TSB will be taking the London 2012 Olympic Torch on a tour of the UK this summer. The London 2012 Olympic Torch Tour is an interactive roadshow where visitors can have their photo taken with the London 2012 Olympic Torch and other historical torches, learn about the history of the Relay, play interactive games, and nominate someone for the chance to carry the Olympic Flame. The tour was launched today in Manchester’s Exchange Square and will travel extensively throughout the UK, visiting many of the Olympic Torch Relay Celebration Sites.

Chris Hoy with his torch-bearer nominee Geoff Cooke and the 1948 London Olympic Torch

Sir Chris Hoy and Mark Foster have been among the first to nominate and encourage the public to get involved by submitting and sharing their own Torchbearer nominations. Sir Chris has nominated Geoff Cooke, whose competitive career spans six decades and who was the British Cycling’s national coach for ten years; as well as 94 year-old Andy Coogan, a World War II veteran and former champion middle distance runner from Carnoustie, Scotland who missed the chance to fulfill his athletics potential because of the war, but who still supports and coaches runners today.

Mark has nominated his swimming instructor Mrs Ann Hardcastle who spotted his talent in his home-town of Southend-on- Sea when he was only five years old. Mother to Olympic Silver medallist Sarah Hardcastle, Mrs Hardcastle has been central to the development of a number of elite UK swimmers and it is for this that Mark has nominated her for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Nominations can be made online via www.lloydstsb.com/carrytheflame from 9th June until 12 September 2011.

Wheelchair Rugby star Mandip Sehmi

The latest instalment of the London 2012 Olympics mascot film – ‘Adventures on a Rainbow’  – was launched today featuring cartoon versions of Wheelchair Rugby star Mandip Sehmi and other GB athletes meeting mascots Wenlock and Mandeville.  Like the first episode, the story is written by children’s author Michael Morpurgo and follows the mascots as they continue on their sporting adventure across the UK, inspiring young people to take up sport.

Sehmi was on hand for a screening of the film as he opened the new London 2012 Shop in Heathrow T5, the first to open at an airport.  Joining him for the screening were pupils from London 2012 Get Set Network school Cranford Primary School in Hounslow.  The full four-minute film can be seen on the London 2012 website, www.london2012.com/mascots, and is being screened on the London 2012 Live Sites – a network of big screens across the UK.

Sebastian Coe, London 2012 Chair, said: ‘The exciting new film, which we launched today at a screening in our new London 2012 Shop in Heathrow T5, follows Wenlock and Mandeville who have beentravellingaround the UK meeting sports stars, children at schools in the London 2012 ‘Get Set’ education programme and community groups and inspiring young people to choose sport as we head towards the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

‘Adventures on a Rainbow’ is the second London 2012 Mascots film and Wenlock and Mandeville as they travel around the UK on their journey to the London 2012 Games, meeting new people and trying out the sports.  The story is written by children’s author Michael Morpurgo and the film is produced by Crystal CG, the Official Digital Imaging Services Provider for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.