Category: London1948

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London2012: Shame on LOCOG Charging for 7/7 Bomb Victims and Families to watch The Games

Attack: This bus was destroyed by a bomber in Tavistock Square, London in 2005

It’s a bad start to the day when the news is of LOCOG charging for the ‘free’ tickets for survivors and the families of the victims of the July 7th bombings in 2005. OK so they are not charging the people themselves, but they are charging the taxpayer £221,000 according to the Mail report.

 

It seems a callous act to HD to even think of getting money back for the free tickets that the London mayor had promised them.

 

‘The GLA offered tickets to the families of the 52 people killed in the attacks and to 91 others who sustained ‘serious injuries’.  This was particularly poignant because the attacks on July 7, 2005, happened the day after the capital won its bid to host the Games…’

As a taxpayer, I am happy to foot this bill. If you have read from the start of HD’s journey you will know that the London bombings were the reason why he is a GAMESMAKER today. If I and 70000 others can do this for nothing (and may I add a lot of additional traveling costs as well) then an organization as big as LOCOG could forget their ticket receipts on this occasion. Shame on LOCOG’s men in suits and their innate greed!!!

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London2012: Tommy Godwin, 91, Proves Age is No Barrier

Tommy Goodwin double medalist from 1948 is still active for the London2012 games. Although born in Connecticut, USA he was a British Track Cyclist and then a coach to the British team. He is now an Ambassador to the London Games. Here’s a sound recording and some photos of the 1948 games recorded by Tommy Godwin:

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HD: Shame the Birmingham Post got his name wrong!

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David Bond: Still no Honour for his achievements in the 1948 London Olympics?

David Bond has no recognition today of his Olympic Gold medal (one of only three won by British athletes) whereas his fellow champion, Stewart Morris, has an OBE(awarded for WWII action in Normandy). I don’t even think there is a photograph of David Bond or his co-winner of the Swallow-class Sailing.

This is his sole biography on sports-reference.com:

With the experienced Stewart Morris as helmsman and David Bond as crew, Britain’s entry Firefly won the Swallow class event on the only occasion it was included in the Olympic yachting program. Bond himself was educated at Harrow and served as an aircraftsman in the RAF in the war, after which he worked for the British Aircraft Corporation. He later became a yacht builder in Cornwall.

Is it not time to make amends for our ancestors mistakes?

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Olympic Gold for Dickie Burnell and Bert Bushnell in the Rowing

Bushnell, right, and Burnell win their gold medal in 1948. Photograph: S&G and Barratts/Empics Sport

It was some 64 years ago, the year of HD’s birth that the Olympic Games last came to the UK shores. In the rowing Dickie Burnell and Bert Bushnell won Gold in the Double Skulls. What a commotion it caused, not at the time, but in 2010 when his obituary published in the Guardian, February 28th, announced that Bert Bushnell had been ‘…the last remaining gold medallist’. However, after the receipt of a letter the Guardian had to publish a correction in March 2010. Apparently he was not the last still alive at the time of report!

Link to obituary

Shame how such honoured persons can fade in our memory.