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Investigation into today’s torchbearers in German daily Der Tagesspiegel
German daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel has published a story on German executives carrying the Olympic torch after spotting our list of ‘mystery torchbearers‘ on the Guardian’s datablog. The story,...
View ArticleWho’s running instead of Jack Binstead today?
The following is a short extract from the final chapter of 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way: “On the day that Jack’s family flies out, the Olympic torch will be carried by...
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How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay lost its way part 2: The presenting partners
In the second part of a serialisation of Help Me Investigate’s first ebook – 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way we look at how the presenting partners’ allocation of...
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A very specific “general” public? How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay lost its...
In the third part of a serialisation of Help Me Investigate’s first ebook – 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way we look at the claim that 90% of torchbearer places would be...
View ArticleOlympic torch relay missed “youth” target – by over 1,000 places
Olympic torch relay organisers are over 1,000 places short of meeting the promise that over half of Olympic torchbearers would be young people aged 12-24, according to an analysis of data in the...
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Infographic: Where did the Olympic torch relay places go? What we know
Infographic by @carolinebeavon An allocation of how the 8,000 Olympic torchbearer places were allocated has found that just 71% were allocated through the four main public campaigns. The figure –...
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The 21% of torchbearer places that were allocated outside of public...
In the fourth part of a serialisation of Help Me Investigate’s first ebook – 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way we look at what happened to the thousands of torchbearer places...
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The experience of the torchbearer – and the executives who carried the...
In the final part of the serialisation of Help Me Investigate’s first ebook – 8,000 Holes: How the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Lost its Way we look at how the story affected one inspirational individual...
View ArticleThe data in full: Olympic torchbearers
It’s now two months since we first gathered data on Olympic torchbearers. In that time people have appeared on the list and then disappeared, appeared late, appeared without stories, or not appeared at...
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LOCOG loses track of Binstead’s Wheelz
Binstead and Martin, London Mini Marathon. Jack Binstead (U14) and Collette Martin (U17) in the Wheelchairs Mini Marathon on 17 April 2011. Taken from Birdcage Walk by Snappa. For the book 8,000...
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