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Steve Busfield

London 2012: Ten best of the web

Phillips Idowu
It's smiles all the way from Phillips Idowu. Photograph: Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty Images

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Here is this week's curious collection of the best London 2012 Olympics content on the web:

1. Want to know what it's like to ride the 2012 Olympic mountain bike course? Here's bikeradar.com's on-bike video of the course.
(via @cheiamlani)

2. Do you like curry? Well, Brick Lane has been named the 2012 Olympics Curry Capital.

3. Do you like steam trains? A restored locomotive has been given pride of place at Stratford Station.
(Via @LewisWiltshire)

4. Tweet of the week: @PhillipsIdowu: "Headache, sore neck, sore hip, 1st plyometric session with a weighted vest. Back into the gym in 45mins. But not 1 complaint from me."

5. International Paralympic day is coming to London's Trafalgar Square on 8 September. Find out more about it here.

6. The new London Cup tournament will give the Olympic Hockey stadium a trial run in May 2012.

7. More cycling - this time of the track variety - with Cycle Sport's extensive interview with Dave Brailsford (including a fascinating graphic).

8. Olympic History Part I: The countdown to the 2012 Games was marked in Leicestershire by a torch relay - using the 1948 London Olympics torch
(Via @inspireleics)

9. Olympic History Part II: A new series of blogs celebrates the "Fathers of the British Olympics Movement".
(Via @Wanchope_Dickov)

10. What if it rains next summer? The IOC has received complaints that not enough of the venues have roofs.

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