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10 SEP 2013

Thomas Bach elected IOC President

Germany's Thomas Bach will be the next International Olympic Committee President (IOC) after he was elected to the post for an eight-year term at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires on Tuesday (10).

Thomas Bach (Getty Images)

Closing Ceremony - London 2012 (Getty Images)

15 AUG 2012

12 highlights - London 2012

Surprise winners, golden doubles, shock exits – the athletics competitions of the Games of XXX Olympiad, London 2012 had them all. Four World records**, 11 Olympic records and 23 world leads were set in total – all of which will long live in the memory as classic moments from the 2012 Games.

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London 2012 Statistics Book: PART 1, pages 1 to 194
London 2012 Statistics Book: PART 2, pages 195 to 386

Previous Championships

2012 London, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I.
2008 Beijing (National Stadium), PR OF CHINA
2004 Athína (Olympic Stadium), GREECE
2000 Sydney, AUSTRALIA
1996 Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES
1992 Barcelona, SPAIN
1988 Seoul, KOREA
1984 Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
1980 Moskva, U.S.S.R.
1976 Montréal, CANADA
1972 München, FED REP GERMAN
1968 Ciudad de México, MEXICO
1964 Tokyo, JAPAN
1960 Roma, ITALY
1956 Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
1952 Helsinki, FINLAND
1948 London, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I.
1936 Berlin, GERMANY
1932 Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
1928 Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
1924 Paris, FRANCE
1920 Antwerp, BELGIUM
1912 Stockholm, SWEDEN
1908 London, GREAT BRITAIN & N.I.
1906 Athína, GREECE
1904 St Louis, UNITED STATES
1900 Paris, FRANCE
1896 Athína, GREECE

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