Jenny Meadows's participation in the London 2012 Olympics is in doubt after she was ruled out of this weekend's trials in Birmingham. The 800m runner has not raced at all this year because of an achilles injury.
Meadows is still recovering from the problem and will now need to rely on the discretion of the selectors to be awarded the third and final place on the team for London. "I am gutted to be missing out on the trials, but we always knew it would be a race against time to be fit enough," she said. "Every day of my recovery is like a week so the extra few days ahead of [the European championships in] Helsinki will make a big difference to the injury and ensure I am able to go out and compete and demonstrate my fitness ahead of selection for London 2012."
Jeanette Kwakye, a 2008 Olympic finalist in the 100m, will also miss the trials due to an achilles and ankle injury. "I have been working with the UKA medical team at Lee Valley and on their advice and in consultation with my coach Michael Afilaka we have decided to miss the trials," said Kwakye, who has a best of 11.68sec this year and sits well down the British rankings. "We will reassess the injury on Monday in relation to the European championships.
"I am eligible for selection for the Games and am still determined to be fit and ready for competing in my own backyard in Stratford."
The pair's withdrawal is worrying news with the Games six weeks away and comes just a day after Hannah England, the world championships silver medallist over 1500m, announced she too would miss the trials after suffering a spike to her achilles in a race in Holland three weeks ago.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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Major London problem hits BT broadband across southeast - The Register
Major London problem hits BT broadband across southeast
'Turn it off and on again'. No, really
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Updated BT is struggling to get its broadband service up and running in parts of the capital and across the southeast of England this afternoon, after the telecoms giant was hit by a massive outage.
The company has coughed to a "serious incident" and is currently broadcasting its woes on Twitter.
BT is in fact fielding messages from frustrated customers regarding no less than four different outages; the one in London and the surrounding areas appeared to be the most serious.
Some reports trickling through suggest that BT's Faraday telephone exchange is the culprit. The issue at that exchange is said to be "affecting circuits primarily across the southeast of the UK across multiple ISPs".
It's understood that some customers in London have been unable to access the broadband network since mid-morning today, and many are extremely peeved at the disruption.
The Register asked BT to explain what had gone wrong. The company hadn't got back to us with comment at time of writing, however. ®
Updated to Add
BT has evidently managed to get their own office broadband turned back on at least. A company spokesperson has now supplied us with the following statement:
This morning, an equipment failure in Sheffield resulted in the loss off broadband service for some BT Retail residential and business customers, as well as a loss of service at some BT Wi-fi hotspots. This has now been resolved and services are being restored. Customers still experiencing problems may find that by turning their BT Hub off and on again, their broadband will work again.
Another, unrelated equipment failure in London has resulted in loss of broadband services for a number of BT Retail customers, we are currently working to resolve this.
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Katy Perry Breaks Silence On Divorce - MTV
Katy Perry has been mum on the details of her divorce from Russell Brand. But in a new cover story in the Hollywood Reporter Perry gives a peek into the difficulty she faced in the split, as well as her plans to launch her own record label.
"There were times when what was going on in my personal life was so overwhelming that I had to bend over to let those tears fall straight out of my eyes and not my false lashes just as I'm about to go up on that ramp and sing 'Teenage Dream,'" she said. Speaking in advance of the release of her 3D concert documentary, "Katy Perry: Part of Me," the 27-year-old pop singer said it's impossible for anyone else to know what went on inside her brief marriage to the British comedian. "Nobody knows what really happened except the two people who are in it."
Part of her vision for the movie was to document her relationship with Brand as it crumbled just as her career was launching into the stratosphere with a record-breaking string of hit singles from Teenage Dream. That kind of honesty was in keeping with her heart-on-sleeve method of writing songs and she said, "Honesty has always worked for me ... so if it ain't broke, why f---ing fix it?"
After putting up $2 million of her own money to make "Part of Me" a reality, Perry and her team are expecting the movie to have an opening to rival Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never" $30 million first weekend. First, though, she had to convince her nervous business manager that it was worth dropping the cash to film her November 2011 concert at Los Angeles' Staples Center in 3D. "I was like, 'Please trust me,'" she said she told him. "That's kind of been the mantra I've said to everyone my whole life: 'Trust me, I have a vision.'"
That same vision came into play in the recently released video for "Wide Awake," which Perry wrote for the film and which ends with a shot of her triumphantly ascending to the stage during her smash California Dreams Tour. Regardless of how the movie does, the relentlessly driven Perry has other business ventures in mind, including launching her own record imprint. Her as-yet-unnamed label will help give struggling artists a hand up in the same way that some music industry folks took a chance on Perry early on. "When it does come to fruition, I'm going to try and avoid the things that take away any fighting chance for an artist to have financial success," she said. "As people are coming to me with opportunities, I'm thinking, 'How would I want to be treated?'"
Check out everything we've got on "Katy Perry: Part of Me."
Source: www.mtv.com
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