Freire postpones retirement until London 2012 Games

Oscar Freire 3 time World Race Champion has officially announced that he has postponed his retirement and will continue until the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The Spaniard champion exposed in his country's AS newspaper that the Olympics "inspire" athletes and are "totally different."

"When you are cycling, more or less, you always feel in the same environment when you go to any competition," he said. "However, being an athlete at the Olympics and meeting other athletes [from other disciplines] is worth the experience."

Freire is Spain's most successful one-day racer and has won 3 gold medal at the World Championships - 1999, 2001 and 2004.

London 2012 Olympics get 2 million request tickets

For the tickets to Olympics 2012 two millions people have registered said by Olympics organizers.

8.8 million seats will be available at prices ranging from $31 for standard events to a symbolic 2,012 pounds ($3,105) for the top-priced seats at the opening ceremony,when the tickets go on sale.

Organizers are keen to achieve $700 million from ticket sales,a quarter of their operating budget.

London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton says data from the two million registered people so far shows that "by and large more females than males" have signed up and many are opting to try to see several events.

Deighton expects another 500,000 people to have registered an interest in buying tickets by March.

PRS music fundation, new music 20 X 12 in London Olympics

PRS music Foundation announcement has made currently concerning 20 brilliant compositions of new music, its a part of 20 X 12 project in London 2012 celebrations.

The variety of musical life in UK all the compositions comprise of huge range of genres and finely exhibit. It includes in Scotland and Northern Ireland to contemporary classical, people and opera.

PRS Music Foundation administrator, Vanessa Reed said, “We are delighted that so many talented music creators and organisations were inspired to apply to New Music 20x12, a fantastic initiative that will see the UK's music community leaving its legacy as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The chosen 20 collaborations offer a snapshot of the UK's fantastically rich and varied new music scene and we are proud to support their contribution to this unique, international celebration.”

New music 20x12 started to Jillian Barker and David Cohe, PRS and BBC are the partnership London 2012 Organising Committee delivered it. Committed patrons and funders are encouraging to this project. Also includes in this project Arts Councils of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and Creative Scotland.

Hockey team targets Olympics, World Cup

It has been announced by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Secretary Asif Bajwa that team had achieved good results after two decades now they are focusing to some bigger tasks.

“Our win in China is the first step towards more success,” said Bajwa. “Our next goals are the 2012 London Olympics the 2014 World Cup for which we will give all our best.”

Bajwa was continuously criticized by the Olympians federation because of team poor performance for long time but Bajwa has replied to their critics and successful achievement by Hockey team is the clear evidence of it.

Bajwa also said that he welcomed Olympians to give their suggestions, including the ones who criticised the federation, to improve the standard of the game in Pakistan. “We never take criticism personally and welcome all Olympians to work for the betterment of hockey.”