{"id":2706,"date":"2012-07-30T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2012-07-30T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T09:07:09","slug":"the-bouras-bulletin-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-28\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bouras Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Steve Redgrave passed the Olympic flame on to a group of young athletes to light the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium and signal the start of the 2012 Olympic Games on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Team GB have got off to a relatively slow start as far as medals are concerned, though. Lizzie Armitstead won silver in the women\u2019s road race yesterday, and Rebecca Adlington snuck into the final of the women\u2019s 400m freestyle but raised her game to win a bronze.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Mark Cavendish and his teammates were unable to recover after losing ground early on in the men\u2019s road race.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray confidently progressed past Stanlisav Wawrinka in the first round of the men\u2019s tennis competition 6-3 6-4 on Wimbledon\u2019s Centre Court. Novak Djokovic recovered from losing the first set to beat Italian Fabio Fognini. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was also taken to three sets by his opponent, Thomaz Bellucci.<\/p>\n<p>Agnieszka Radwanska suffered a shock defeat to Julia Goerges of Germany and<\/p>\n<p>Maria Sharapova beat Shahar Peer of Israel 6-2 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>At Wembley, Britain\u2019s footballers followed up a disappointing draw against Senegal with a 3-1 win over the UAE. One of the tournament favourites Spain went out after defeat to Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Hamilton led throughout to win the Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of the Lotus pair Kimi Raikkonon and Romain Grosjean.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso finished ahead of Mark Webber to increase his lead in the drivers\u2019 championship to 40 points. Victory puts Hamilton up to fourth, 47 points of the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Wigan beat Castleford 40-16 to maintain their three-point lead at the top of the Super League with one round of matches remaining. Warrington kept up the pressure on the leaders with a 50-22 thrashing of Bradford, whose chances of making the playoffs were dealt a blow as Hull KR beat Widnes 32-26.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-28\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Steve Redgrave passed the Olympic flame on to a group of young athletes to light the cauldron in the Olympic Stadium and signal the start of the 2012 Olympic Games on Friday evening. Team GB have got off to a relatively slow start as far as medals are concerned, though. Lizzie Armitstead won silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[83,124,125,179,182,205],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PoLK-HE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2758,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-29\/","url_meta":{"origin":2706,"position":0},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"6 August 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Usain Bolt cemented his place as the greatest sprinter of all time as he successfully defended his 100m title.\u00a0Bolt posted an Olympic record time of 9.63 to beat countryman Yohan Blake and American Justin Gatlin into second and third respectively. British athletes enjoyed their share of the glory in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2790,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-30\/","url_meta":{"origin":2706,"position":1},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"14 August 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The flame was extinguished on the Olympic Games for another four years on Sunday night, but not before Team GB took their gold medal haul to 29, the most since London hosted the Games in 1908. Mo Farah completed a long distance double on Saturday evening, winning the 5000m final\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2301,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":2706,"position":2},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"20 February 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Dereck Chisora lost his WBC world title fight against champion Vitali Klitschko in Munich on Saturday night, but the event will be remembered more for the antics before and after the matchup than the fight itself. First, at Friday\u2019s weigh-in, Chisora slapped Klitschko, then in Saturday\u2019s post-fight press conference, he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3518,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-48\/","url_meta":{"origin":2706,"position":3},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"17 December 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell both scored centuries as England drew the final test against Nagpur to win their first series in India for 27 years. India had declared after an hour of day three, still four runs behind the visitors\u2019 first innings total of 330, in the hope of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3221,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-40\/","url_meta":{"origin":2706,"position":4},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"22 October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunderland had to settle for a point despite playing a Newcastle side down to ten men for most of the Tyne-Wear derby. John O\u2019Shea\u2019s header went in off Demba Ba, cancelling out Yohan Cabaye third-minute opener. Queens Park Rangers remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table after\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2209,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":2706,"position":5},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"24 January 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The weekend\u2019s football programme was dominated by Sunday\u2019s fixtures as Tottenham and Arsenal sought revenge for embarrassing defeats inflicted on them by Manchester City and Manchester United respectively back in August. Mario Balotelli\u2019s late penalty gave Manchester City a 3-2 win at home to Tottenham, but not before a stamp\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}