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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Grayling, the Tory work and pensions minister, launched fresh attacks on benefit claimants this week, despite his smear that they are fakers being proved wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grayling says the Tories’ Work Programme has failed to force enough people with long term health problems into work—because they are “sicker than expected”. This gives the lie to the Tories’ claim that people are feigning illness to avoid work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now Grayling, an MP who grabbed thousands in expenses, plans to change the rules. He wants to redesign the scheme so people originally deemed too ill to join it would be forced to do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This would hit tens of thousands of disability benefit claimants. Grayling is also set to force unemployed people to work for free for six months—or risk losing their benefits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He claims this will “help” them. In reality it will help bosses by giving them free labour—and it will particularly help those bosses who happen to be Tory party donors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Nash, Ryan Robson and three others set up Sovereign Capital in 2001. It owns the Employment and Skills Group (ESG), which has grabbed £73 million worth of government employment contracts. Nash and his wife Caroline have donated £182,500 to the Tories since 2006. Robson has given them £267,866 since 2003.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grayling’s attack is based on the idea that people on benefits are lying “scroungers”. But he’s the real scrounger. Grayling claimed over £100,000 in expenses to renovate a plush Pimlico flat. He says he needed the flat close to parliament to carry out his work—yet he hardly ever uses it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grayling’s neighbours certainly don’t seem to see much of him. One said, “There is a light on occasionally, but he is not here very often.” After seeing a picture of the Tory, another said “I have no idea who this man is.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He’s never there because he has three other flats within the M25. He spread his expense claims over two years to avoid going over the maximum limit. And he used the money to completely refurbish his flat—pushing its value up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grayling’s real aim is to throw people off benefits regardless of their circumstances. More evidence of this emerged just last week. The Tories employ private firm Atos to test people with disabilities and get them off benefits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An investigation revealed that the government have dictated no more than 12 percent should be declared unfit to work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tories want to force people onto lower rates of benefit, or none at all and enrich their mates in the process. They are the real lying scroungers—not people on benefits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Grayling’s war on benefit claimants has sparked resistance from the start</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Why aren’t you dead then?” This was the response of an Atos work capability assessor to an interviewee who said they had attempted suicide several times while suffering with depression.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two undercover investigations by the Panorama and Dispatches programmes brought home the reality of its treatment of disabled people last week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ladonia Lowe has leukaemia. Last year she was told that her condition was terminal. She undergoes intravenous chemotherapy each week. Yet she is being hounded to undergo a face-to-face assessment, despite being bedridden. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her husband says, “To harass a terminally ill patient when they have been contacted and told several times is completely unjustifiable and a disgrace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“How can you possibly think that a terminally ill patient could be fit for work? It’s beyond belief.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this is exactly what these assessments do. Stephen Hill from Duckmanton in Dernyshire died of a heart attack one month after being told he was “fit to work”—even though he was waiting for major heart surgery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government has outsourced the benefit assessments to multinational IT firm Atos, which sponsors the Olympics and in particular the Paralympics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dispatches recorded one Atos trainer telling benefit assessors that losing a hand would not be enough to get benefits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When asked what jobs someone could do with one hand, they reply that you could do some work “as long as you’ve got one finger and you can press a button”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Atos tell employees during training that if they declare over 12 to 13 percent of interviewees eligible for benefits, their results will be fed to superiors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tories say they have not set targets to declare people fit for work. But an Atos doctor said that the figures came from the government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A separate investigation earlier this year found that 32 people were dying each week after failing an Atos assessment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter is under growing pressure to explain the suspension of a British journalist after it emerged that the social network alerted<span style="color: magenta;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/nbc" title="More from guardian.co.uk on NBC"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NBC</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to his highly critical tweets of the US broadcaster's Olympic coverage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guy Adams, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/theindependent" title="More from guardian.co.uk on The Independent"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Independent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">'s</span> Los Angeles bureau chief, had his Twitter account suspended after he published </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/30/twitter-suspends-guy-adams-account-nbc" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the corporate email address of the NBC executive Gary Zenkel, who is responsible for the broadcaster's coverage of the London Olympics.</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/30/twitter-suspends-guy-adams-account-nbc" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adams posted a string of tweets criticising NBC for being "utter bastards" for failing to air the opening ceremony live to viewers on the West coast of the US, who had to watch it on a six hour time delay.</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/30/twitter-suspends-guy-adams-account-nbc" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He then took aim at Zenkel, who was appointed president of NBC Olympics in 2005, and published his corporate email address</span></a><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter immediately shut down Adams' account and told him it was a violation of the site's rules to post the private and confidential information of others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of Adams' critical tweets read: "America's left coast forced to watch Olympic ceremony on SIX HOUR time delay. Disgusting money-grabbing by @NBColympics."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another said: "I have 1000 channels on my TV. Not one will be showing the Olympics opening ceremony live. Because NBC are utter, utter bastards."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Tuesday, NBC claimed that Twitter had alerted it to Adams' tweets, not the other way round.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Previously, it was reported that NBC approached Twitter and asked how to have Adams' offending tweet taken down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher McCloskey, NBC's vice-president of communications, </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9439614/London-2012-Olympics-Twitter-bans-reporter-who-criticised-NBC-network.html" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">told the Telegraph in an email</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">: </span>"Our social media dept was actually alerted to it by Twitter and then we filled out the form and submitted it".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When contacted by MediaGuardian, McCloskey said that NBC had nothing further to add to its original statement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NBC said: "We filed a complaint with Twitter because a user tweeted the personal information of one of our executives. According to Twitter, this is a violation of their privacy policy. Twitter alone levies discipline."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adams wrote in the Independent on Tuesday that his ban "raises various ethical issues relevant to journalism in the online era".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The company has previously told the Guardian that it does not actively monitor users' accounts, and added that it was company policy not to comment on individual users.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter has faced criticism for the suspension, with </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/30/twitter-suspends-guy-adams-independent" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">some influential commentators describing it as quick-triggered</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;"> </span>and raising questions about the social network's relationship with NBC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Twitter and NBC have </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444025204577543313839816248.html" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">partnered during the London 2012 games</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta;">.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two companies joined forces to show tweets from NBC presenters, Olympics athletes and fans onto a single page on Twitter.com. No money is changing hands with the partnership, </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444025204577543313839816248.html" title=""><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">according to the Wall Street Journal</span></a><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A leading US swimming coach has become the first person within the sport to raise questions over Ye Shiwen's remarkable swim in the women's 400m individual medley yesterday.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">John Leonard, the executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, described the Chinese 16-year-old's gold medal-winning performance as 'unbelievable'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At the age of 16, Miss Ye had just stunned spectators at the Olympic pool by swimming the final freestyle 50m of the 400m individual medley in 28.93seconds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'No coach that I spoke to yesterday could ever recall seeing anything remotely like that in a world level competition,' Leonard told the Guardian.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Not only was her swim faster than the 27-year-old American Ryan Lochte had managed minutes earlier to win his gold in the men’s version of the same event, it was part of an overall time a whole five seconds quicker than her previous best.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'All those things, I think, legitimately call that swim into question,' Leonard added.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But he said he wanted to be 'very careful' about making suggestions of doping, but did add that Ye 'looks like superwoman. Any time someone has looked like superwoman in the history of our sport they have later been found guilty of doping.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His reaction comes after BBC presenter Clare Balding was criticised in some quarters for raising questions over the swim.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As Miss Ye Shiwen completed her extraordinary performance, the surprise in Clare Balding’s voice was clear.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And she immediaely asked former British Olympian Mark Foster, who was acting as a pundit: ‘How many questions will there be, Mark, about somebody who can suddenly swim so much faster than she has ever swum before?’</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Chinese swimming has previously been tainted by drug scandals – another 16-year-old world champion tested positive for doping last month – but Foster sought to play down any suggestion of cheating.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said: ‘It was a five-second best time and it was the way she did it as well. Bearing in mind she is 16 years of age, and when you are young you do some big best times… it can be done.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But Leonard suggested that Foster's argument wasn't sufficient. saying: 'If you have been around swimming you know when something has been done that just isn't right. I have heard commentators saying "well she is 16, and at that age amazing things happen".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Well yes, but not that amazing. I am sorry.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Ye was more than seven seconds faster in the Olympic 400m IM final than she had been in the World Championship equivalent last July, an improvement Leonard said was possible, but very hard.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'But the final 100m was impossible. Flat out,' he said. 'If all her split times had been faster I don't think anybody would be calling it into question, because she is a good swimmer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'But to swim three other splits at the rate that she did, which was quite ordinary for elite competition, and then unleash a historic anomaly, it is just not right.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Asked about the accusation that she was doping, Ye replied: 'The Chinese team keep very firmly to the anti-doping policies, so there is absolutely no problem.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Balding’s question provoked a storm among BBC viewers on Twitter, with many praising her for daring to even hint at the possibility of cheating, but many criticising her for tainting the Chinese swimmer’s achievement and some even calling for her sacking.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">@aliwillson was outraged at Miss Balding's query, and said:'</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ye Shiwen sets world record and Clare Balding immediate intimates she doping. Who the hell does she think she is?! #BBC pls fire her ASAP</span>'<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Whereas @ImroTseng felt that Balding not questioning other record breakers' success in years gone by </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">was unfair.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But others applauded her for simply questioning how Miss Ye was </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">able to record such an impressive time, and beat the world record by such a margin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mrs Logan, above, said: ‘I’ve experienced sexism in my career – comments and situations that are specific to me being a woman.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It was quite apparent during the [football] World Cup in South Africa. I was staying in quite an isolated place, in a high-testosterone environment. I just wanted to go back to my hotel and read a magazine.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sky's cricket pundit and presenter David Lloyd was among them. @BumbleCricket simply said: 'Clare Balding a brilliant broadcaster'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last night the BBC defended Miss Balding’s comments, insisting: ‘The Chinese swimmer had just knocked five seconds off her personal best to break a world record; in her role as a presenter it is Clare’s job to ask the experts (in this case Mark Foster), how she managed to do it. There was absolutely no implication of doping.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The success of China, which won more gold medals in the pool on the first day than it did in the whole of its own Olympics in Beijing four years ago – prompted further questions, with some fearing China’s sudden resurgence is a throwback to days of the 1994 Rome world championships, when its drug-powered women swept to 13 of the 16 available golds.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In June Chinese state media said 16-year-old Li Zhesi, part of the country’s winning team at the 2009 World Championships, had tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, EPO, which boosts the body’s oxygen supplies. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Chinese, who point out that their athletes are regularly tested, have gone to great lengths to ensure there is no chance of any of their athletes failing dope tests in London and are said to have even imposed a ban on them eating the food prepared at the Olympic Village.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Ye began her illustrious career when she was plucked from a primary school classroom. Teachers in China are trained to look out for pupils with promising physical attributes and noticing the seven-year-old had unusually large hands and long legs, her teacher alerted the local government sports officials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She left home to begin an intensive training regime at one of China’s 3,000-plus state-run and funded ‘medal factories’, designed to transform talented youths into ruthless sporting machines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Aged just 12, she was selected for the national team. She took her trainers by surprise at the World Championships in Shanghai last year, producing a devastating freestyle triumph in the 200m individual medley. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Her trajectory caught Communist Party propagandists by surprise, but they have since given her the kind of profile usually afforded to more established stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Her career has been rocket-like. She’s one of the other great discoveries following the 2008 Beijing Olympics,’ the Communist Party’s newspaper of choice, the People’s Daily, declared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The IOC's medical chief insists he has no reason to have suspicions over Miss Ye's performance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">China's appalling past record for their swimmers failing doping tests has led to inevitable suspicions over the 16-year-old, who took five seconds off her personal best and more than a second off the world record in the 400m individual medley.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The swim was described as 'insanely fast' by previous world record holder Stephanie Rice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist, a veteran anti-doping competitor, did not express any concerns when asked if he had any suspicions regarding the swimmers in London.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Ljungqvist said: 'I am pretty experienced in this matter, as you know, and have been at the Games since a long time and within anti doping for 40 years.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Should I have my suspicions I keep them for myself, first of all, and take any action, if so, in order to find out whether something is wrong or not.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'You ask me specifically about this particular swimming. I say no, I have not personally any reason other than to applaud what has happened, until I have further facts, if so.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The amazing improvement in performance will have alerted doping control officials however for target-testing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lu Ying, fresh from winning a silver medal in the women's 100 metre butterfly, used her post-race press conference to speak out against the Chinese training system.</span><br />
< <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was a rare display of criticism from one of the country's athletes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lu, who went to Australia to train in 2008, said the tough regime in Chine did not offer enough chance for athletes to enjoy themselves away from the pool</span>.<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In China we're used to study, study and train, train and then rest,' she said via an interpreter at a press conference following her race on Sunday.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I think our way of thinking has many limits. In Australia I've been invited to barbecues with my teammates - that would never happen in China.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Athletes in other countries were not afraid to have fun as well as train, said 23-year-old Lu, whereas coaches in China would insist that athletes train and then rest and stay focused on the competition.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">China has risen fast up the Olympics medals table since it started competing fully in the Games in 1984, sweeping into first place when it hosted the Olympics four years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It has already made a strong start to London 2012, leading the medals table at the end of day two.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although China is known for employing unyielding training methods which begin at an early age, Chinese athletes rarely speak out against the authoritarian state.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lu Ying, a relative unknown, beat Australia's Alicia Coutts into third place in the women's 100 metre butterfly on Sunday, and was only topped by Dana Vollmer, who took the world record alongside the gold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">London 2012's head of anti-doping Jonathan Harris confirmed: 'Enhancements in performance is something we focus on so we target those athletes.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rice, from Australia, would not be drawn on whether she thought Ye was legitimate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She said: 'I have no idea, I mean I wouldn't want to get into that at all, but a 58 is an insanely fast swim, but I know she's a good freestyle swimmer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile, Harris revealed that cleaners and security staff in the Olympic Village had been briefed to report any evidence of doping by athletes, such as needles or discarded medication packets.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">"If they should come across any practices of paraphernalia they would bring it to our attention," he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added that the anti-doping effort was now heavily reliant on the use of intelligence with any new information discussed on a daily basis with UK Anti-Doping.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Ye delivered another stunning performance in the heats of the women’s 200m individual medley this morning. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After covering the last 50m of her 400m IM faster than Ryan Lochte – and Michael Phelps – did his in winning gold in the men’s event, the teenager was in exceptional form again today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 16-year-old was back in the pool for the event she won the world title in last year, and she produced another startling display. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Miss Ye’s time of 2.08.90 equalled the mark she set to win gold in Shanghai last year and it was also 1.6 seconds quicker than any other qualifier for tonight’s semi-finals, among them Great Britain’s Hannah Miley. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Of even greater concern to her rivals was the fact that she was clearly easing up in the last 50m freestyle leg. In the 400IM final she clocked 28.93 – compared to Lochte’s 29.10 – but this morning she covered the last lap in 30.73.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Even so, she recorded the fastest time in the world this year and she was also just 0.45sec off the Olympic record. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She swims again this evening before contesting, should she qualify, tomorrow night’s final. The world record is 2.06.15, set in the now-banned techsuits by Ariana Kukors in 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem tends to be caused by IOC stipulations that retain a certain number of seats for officials, athletes, international federations and other accredited individuals. It can be particularly acute on the morning after the opening ceremony, which finished close to 1am.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the vast majority of the venues, at least one-fifth of seats are reserved for sponsors, officials, the media and the "Olympic family".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I think it's terrible, especially when so many people want a ticket," said Sharon Beers from Portsmouth, "there should be less seats for officials."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sitting in a home somewhere while fireworks lit up the Olympics Opening Ceremony would have been the family of Kane Gorny.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They watched their cherished teenage son die of thirst at the hands of incompetent doctors and nurses.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kane was a promising footballer with a bright future ahead of him until he was admitted to hospital. He died of thirst a couple of days later.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His life was lost for want of a simple glass of water. One glass of water that a succession of clueless medics denied him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kane even went to the extreme length of calling 999 from his hospital bed so desperate was he for a drink during his visit to hospital for a hip replacement in 2009. Yet when the police arrived, the nurses ushered them away, assuring them that the young patient was confused.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It has been suggested that some of these people should have gone to prison for what happened. Yet, shockingly, just one nurse has been demoted as a result of Mr Gorny’s death and the rest are still working in healthcare.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">How does the family of Kane – and indeed the thousands of others we have heard of and the many more we haven’t – feel when they see the NHS being shamefully glorified at the biggest sporting bonanza in the world?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sick to the stomach, I imagine.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Yet this is exactly what happened in front of an international audience of billions who were watching the show in London yesterday evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The letters ‘NHS’ dazzled in bright red, like some triumphant advert. All around pranced self-indulgent nurses who had volunteered to take a few days off to be part of the ceremony. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Children lay in their beds as Mary Poppins figures danced and JK Rowling read some bedtime tales.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And how long did this shameful propaganda last for? A whole 15 minutes at the top of proceedings before viewers dozed off to the procession of banana republics and far-flung destinations nobody has ever heard of or even cares for.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That such a politically divisive subject was included at all is utterly shocking. Not least because it glossed over the cracks in a system that is creaking at its seams - crying out for urgent reform. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And nobody seems to have considered the sheer hypocrisy that the majority of the athletes taking part in the Games will have access to the most expensive cutting-edge private treatment available in the world for even the slightest graze on their bodies.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The NHS segment came after a mildly moving rendition of Jerusalem (though this will move any patriot) and a play depicting the industrial revolution tearing up Blake’s ‘green and pleasant land’.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br /> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The highlight was undoubtedly an hilarious sketch featuring the Queen and James Bond which saw her Majesty ‘parachute’ into the stadium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But it was the absurdly unrealistic scene – and indeed one that would spring from the kind of nonsensical targets and equality quotas we see in the NHS - showing a mixed-race middle-class family in a detached new-build suburban home, which was most symptomatic of the politically correct agenda in modern Britain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but such set-ups are simply not the 'norm' in any part of the country. So why was it portrayed like this and given such prominence? If it was intended to be something that we can celebrate, that two people with different colour skin and different cultural heritages can live harmoniously together, then it deserves praise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But what will be disturbing to many people is top-down political manipulation - whether consciously or unthinkingly - at a major sporting event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Conservative MP Aidan Burley was entitled to his right to comment on Twitter that the it was a load of 'leftie multicultural crap'. Yet predictably he has been castigated by the social network's Guardianista brigade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Unfortunately the kind of politically driven multiculturalism we saw last night is the kind of social engineering we have come to expect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What we should not accept is the promotion of an institution that allowed a man to die of thirst from his hospital bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Yes, there are parts of the NHS that we can be proud of and it undoubtedly does lots of excellent work. There are examples of true heroism at Great Ormond Street Hospital.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But that should not be forced on us at a sporting event that's supposed to be above politics, which is of course why the likes of Syria, North Korea and China are allowed to compete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">If only those behind the biased spectacle last night had spared a thought for the likes of Kane, and the many others who have been failed by the NHS, would we have had an opening ceremony we could be proud of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angry fans took to Twitter to complain – especially has no food or drink was allowed into the stadium from outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin Jones said: "Not sure who caterer was at Old Trafford last night but absolute disgrace, no food at bars, warm drinks, massive queue - no Visa – hopeless?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gregory Hunt said: "Food choice at Old Trafford. Pie, pie, pie or sausage roll. All gone before kick off.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One reader emailed the M.E.N to say: “At half time in the first game, all the food had run out in the North stand. And before then, people were saying that food and drink was served with no lids, and no cardboard trays/bags provided, so impossible to carry more than a couple of food items/drinks - ie no way could buy for a whole family and carry it to their seats if they were sat waiting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Children had come straight from school, people had come straight from work, around 72,000 people there - many hadn't eaten since lunchtime and were relying on stadium catering. Families had hungry crying children. It was a complete and utter shambles.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fans were also astonished at the price of drinks – with dozens of fans complaining to us about the price of lager. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Olympic bosses originally told the M.E.N. they were selling 330ml bottles of Heineken at £4.20 - but this afternoon stated beer was being sold at the venue at the lower price of £3.60.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite this, fans - who a</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">re banned from bringing their own food and drink into the venue - complained that they were being ripped off by the high prices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Team GB went on to draw 1-1 with Senegal with United stalwart Ryan Giggs starring for the home side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A spokesperson for Olympic organisers LOCOG admitted caterers had been been unable to cope due to 'huge demand'.<br /><br />“It was a well-attended match and some kiosks did run out of food. Going forward we will look to try as hard as we can to ensure we replenish food more quickly,” he added.</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5342050240655494727.post-32487042333315986032012-07-29T02:59:00.003-07:002012-07-29T03:03:45.120-07:00Olympics 11 Billion Translation Farce - Arabic Is In Gibberish.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another day, another Olympic calamity. Now it emerges that a train company has printed a poster featuring information about security during the Olympics in English and seven other languages. Unfortunately it turns out that the Arabic section is 'gibberish'.<br /><br />So what's going on, and just how much should we be worried about the Olympics turning into an incredibly expensive farce?</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The poster shame</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The poster in question was produced by First Capital Connect, which sent it to 13 stations. The company swears that it used a 'professional translator', but that the company that made the poster substituted one font for another, so it no longer made sense</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Council for Arab-British Understanding told the<span style="color: orange;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18911599" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BBC</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that the Arabic lettering was 'ridiculous' and unreadable. It also said that studying the language for just one week would have taught a translator the basic rules and they would have realised that letters which aren't joined up and are printed back-to-front are not going to read well.<br /><br />It is yet another nail in the coffin for any hope that the Olympics would reveal Britain as a world-class country capable of holding a summer picnic - let alone a global sports competition.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Endless farce</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearly the major damage has been caused by the security farce which has now seen 3,500 troops called up to provide security and another 1,200 on stand-by, as G4S admitted it had fallen far short of its target for security officers and was now conducting a desperate hunt for bored students to take up the post. This will be a very visual sign of the failures of the company and of the organising committee and the government which were supposed to be working with them.<br /><br />Then there are the much-criticised Olympic Lanes on the roads around London, which have caused havoc on the M4 and have created a situation on some roads where drivers either have to drive in a bus lane or an Olympic lane - both of which will see them fined £130. Add in the four hour tour of London for the athletes hampered by a driver who can't use a sat nav, and you have a ridiculous farce before the doors even open.<br /><br />And don't even mention the failure to sell out the venues - or even give away tickets for some of the GB women's team football games. The top tier of the stadia are facing closure because we cannot summon enough enthusiasm for what is supposed to be our national sport.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More to come</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyone who has ever been to London will be able to do the maths and come to the conclusion that anyone trying to get to the games will either get trapped in overcrowding on public transport or lost on the roads. They will then show up stressed and late, to have their food and drink confiscated by a military serviceman and a massive queue which risks them missing the sport they have come to see. They can then spend £50 on lunch while they contemplate the hell of doing it all again in the other direction.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruinous disaster</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of this would be bad enough if we were running the austerity Olympics on a shoestring, but these games are record-breakingly expensive. The original budget of money to come from the taxpayer was £2.4 billion, but in 2007 the government bit the bullet and raised it to £9.3 billion. This included £5.3 billion for building the venues and infrastructure and £600 million for security. The latest news is that the event is running £2 billion over budget - so the total taxpayer cost of the event is an astonishing £11 billion.<br /></span><br />
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