Beijing Olympic Games

ROB Abernethy is a picture of pride as he shows a group of foreign visitors over his domain, the spectacular swimming and diving centre for the London Olympics. A piece of sculpture as much as a sports venue - it was designed by Pritzker-prize winning "starchitect" Zaha Hadid - the Aquatic Centre's dynamic, curving lines will be a stand-out attraction when the Games start on July 27. The home and away Games

JESS Trengove says the lessons learnt from her stunning marathon debut can lead to an improved performance at the London Olympics in August. Trengove books Olympic berth

LONDON Olympics chief Sebastian Coe has four Olympic medals and five years as a Conservative Party MP, but when he got the job of putting on the biggest show on earth, he knew he needed to expand his horizons. On your marks, set ...

JESS Trengove has wanted to be called an Olympian since her primary school days in Naracoorte. Olympic marathon place for Trengove

SOUTH Australian athlete Jessica Trengove has won selection for the London Olympics. Olympic marathon place for Trengove

div class="track"img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.24.1.1/41610?ns=guardianpageName=Bradley+Wiggins%27s+Beijing+Olympic+souvenir+medal+stolen+in+break-in%3AArticle%3A1745078ch=Sportc3=GU.co.ukc4=Bradley+Wiggins%2CCrime+-+UK+%28News%29%2CCycling+%28Sport%29%2Colympics2008%2CSport%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CTriathalon%2COlympic+Gamesc6=Press+Associationc7=12-May-14c8=1745078c9=Articlec10=Newsc11=Sportc13=c25=c30=contentc42=Sporth2=GU%2FSport%2FSport%2FBradley+Wiggins" width="1" height="1" //divp class="standfirst"Cyclist's wife Catherine says she is 'raging' after burglary in which competitor's medal was taken/ppThe wife of the three-time Olympic cycling champion Bradley Wiggins has said she is "raging" after thieves broke into their property and stole his Beijing 2008 competitors' souvenir medal./ppLancashire police are investigating after being alerted on Sunday to the break-in at a property in Chorley, Lancashire./ppa href="https://twitter.com/#!/Cathwiggins1981/status/201690757113970688" title=""Catherine Wiggins tweeted/a: "Phone went on way back from rugby, Lancs Police informing me we'd been burgled. Brads participants medal from Beijing Olympics most … distinctive thing taken so if anyone hears of it please inform police, who were brilliant this morning. Raging! That is all./pp"To clarify, NOT Brads Olympic medals thank god, a participants souvenir one. Still unpleasant enough though."/ppA Lancashire police spokesman said: "We were called following a break-in on 13 May at 12.03pm./pp"We think there is damage to the property. We are looking into it."/pp/ppWiggins defended his 4km individual pursuit title in Beijing in a new Olympic record time – the first rider to achieve the feat. He also won gold in the team pursuit in Beijing 2008, where the team broke the world record twice./ppWiggins ended 2008 with five Olympic and World Championship gold medals./ppWiggins came fourth in the 2009 Tour de France, equalling Robert Millar's best-ever performance by a British rider in 1984. He is one of the favourites for the Tour de France beginning on 30 June./pdiv class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/bradleywiggins"Bradley Wiggins/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/ukcrime"Crime/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/cycling"Cycling/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/olympics2008"Olympics 2008/a/li/ul/divbr/div class="terms"a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds"More Feeds/a/divp style="clear:both" /

MINERALS giant Rio Tinto is considering turning the clock back to the 1960s by exporting raw bauxite from Weipa on Cape York instead of the value-added products of alumina and aluminium from the port of Gladstone. Rio boss threatens to export raw goods

Even if Swimming Australia had struck a deal with Nick D'Arcy, it would not have guaranteed him a place at the London Games, the Australian Olympic Committee says. D'Arcy fulfilled criteria: AOC

EVEN if Swimming Australia had struck a deal with Nick D'Arcy, it would not have guaranteed him a place at the London Games, the Australian Olympic Committee says. Olympic boss backs D'Arcy selection

WHEN Australia's athletes march into London's Olympic stadium in July they will be donning uniforms made in China. Aussie Olympic uniforms made in China