LONDON (AP) — Around a 2012 Olympics and a horde city with reporters from The Associated Press bringing a season and sum of a games to you:

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USAIN AND MANU?

Well, he’s not bad with his feet.

Everyone wants to know what a world’s fastest male is going to do after a London Olympics. How about personification a small soccer for Manchester United?

Usain Bolt, who won a bullion endowment in a 100 meters Sunday, pronounced following that he would like to play for one of a Premier League’s heavyweights.

“People consider we am joking, though if (United coach) Alex Ferguson called me adult and said, ‘OK, let’s do this, come and have a trial,’ it would be unfit for me to contend no,” Bolt said.

But a Jamaican competitor pronounced he wouldn’t do it unless he believed he had a skills to be a cause on a field.

“I would not take adult a plea if we didn’t consider we was good enough,” Bolt said. “I am in Britain for a few some-more days. If Alex Ferguson wants to give me a call, he knows where we am.”

— Jenna Fryer — Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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TEARING DOWN

The bullion endowment hardly had time to settle on Aly Raisman’s neck when workers during North Greenwich Arena started ripping out a gymnastics staging.

They have small time to change this place over from a home for Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman into a new pad for LeBron James and Kobe Bryant. The men’s basketball contest hold pool play in a basketball locus in a Olympic Park.

Now that we’ve modernized to a knockout rounds, a tourney is being shifted over here to accommodate a incomparable crowds.

Here’s a twitpic of a work: http://yfrog.com/mgnxorj

— Jon Krawczynski — Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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SAY HI TO THE PRINCE

British cyclist Laura Trott was royally astounded after winning her initial particular bullion medal.

She was circuitous down her press obligations, smiling ear-to-ear after winning a omnium Tuesday, when she was told that Prince William was here to accommodate 20-year-old.

“Who?” she asked, puzzled.

Then Trott went pale, her grin dead and her jaw fell agape.

“He’s here to accommodate me?” she pronounced stunned.

As she was ushered off to accommodate a prince, Trott stopped to watch a shutting laps of a men’s keirin, jumping adult and down to hearten teammate Chris Hoy’s bullion endowment ride.

Trott might have had a second surprise. Prince Harry — a many authorised bachelor in Britain — was during a Velodrome on Tuesday, not his married hermit Prince William, according to a palace.

— Jenna Fryer — Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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BRITAIN’S GOLDEN SUMMER

“This has unequivocally incited into a golden summer for Team GB and for a whole of a U.K. … That is going to leave people with some very, unequivocally happy memories.” — Prime Minister David Cameron, as Britain racked adult a 22nd bullion of a Summer Games.

— David Stringer – Twitter http://twitter.com/david_stringer

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL FINALISTS

U.S. women have competent for a final of a beach volleyball — and a possibility to win their third Olympic gold.

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings kick China’s Xue Chen and Zhang Xi 22-20, 22-20 on Tuesday.

The 2004 and ’08 champions will play a leader of a late semifinal between Americans Jennifer Kessy and Apr Ross and a top-seeded Brazilians, Juliana and Larissa.

It was a 20th true Olympic feat for May-Treanor and Walsh.

— Jimmy Golen — Twitter http://twitter.com/jgolen

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CHEERING FOR HOY

Chris Hoy was cheered by British fans some 270 kilometers (170 miles) divided from a Olympic Velodrome in London as he went for cycling bullion in a men’s keirin race.

The foe Tuesday was shown on a large shade during a Old Trafford in Manchester. Fans watchful for a men’s soccer semifinal between Brazil and South Korea erupted in cheers when Hoy crossed a line initial to set a British record with his sixth Olympic bullion medal.

— Tales Azzoni — Twitter http://twitter.com/tazzoni

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TENSE CROWD

This was one moving crowd.

After saying British cyclist Victoria Pendleton skip out on a bullion in a women’s scurry on a cycling track, a primarily home throng was on a bit of a downer. Then 5 time Olympic bullion medalist Chris Hoy took his place for a men’s Keirin final, and a tragedy built.

On a final lap, when German Maximilian Levy went into a lead, there was no witness left sitting. When Hoy overtook and went initial over a finish line, a throng erupted and a sound was deafening. Flags were being waved everywhere as people jumped adult and down.

— Fergus Bell — Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb

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QUICKQUOTE: HAMMER

“I wish we can make a weight extent on my luggage. These babies are heavy!” — Sarah Hammer of a U.S. after winning dual china medals in lane cycling, one group and one individual.

— Sheila Norman-Culp — Twitter http://twitter.com/snormanculp

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EXPLAINER: TECHNICALLY SPEAKING

How did American Aly Raisman go from a outward looking in to a bronze endowment on a change beam?

Raisman was primarily awarded a measure of 14.966, that was good for fourth. But her manager is authorised to interest one aspect of her score, so an exploration was released to plea a grade of problem score.

After clever review, a judges motionless to boost Raisman’s problem measure to give her a sum of 15.066, that changed her into a tie with Romania’s Catalina Ponor.

The tie-breaker is a judges’ measure on execution, and Raisman’s was aloft than Ponor’s, pulling her to a bronze medal.

— Jon Krawczynski — Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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KAROLYI ON DOUGLAS

USA Gymnastics manager Martha Karolyi says she thinks all a courtesy heaped on Gabby Douglas after her feat in a all-around contributed to her struggles on a change lamp and disproportionate bars.

“It was overwhelming,” Karolyi pronounced Tuesday after a 16-year-old Douglas stumbled on a beam. “She’s a immature girl. She wasn’t put in a limelight before and it was too much, too quick.”

Douglas also says a mental partial of a foe was many some-more formidable than a earthy side of things. She says her physique feels good after a exhausting training and competing, though she’s looking brazen to some time off to recharge.

“I usually wish to revisit my dogs and go to a beach,” she says.

— Jon Krawczynski — Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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BAD BARBELL, SWEET BARBELL

If a barbell had emotions, how confused it would be after a weightlifting competition.

When a competitors travel in, they glance and scream during a bar, as if it were their misfortune enemy. When they finish a lift successfully, some kneel down to lick a weights.

The super heavyweights seem quite lustful of this practice.

Frederic Fokejou Tefot of Cameroon, Hungary’s Peter Nagy and Yauheni Zharnasek of Belarus were among a strongmen who planted their lips on a weights after successful rises Tuesday.

— Karl Ritter – Twitter http://twitter.com/karl_ritter

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BLAKE BUNDLES UP

Just saw Jamaica’s Yohan Blake exit Olympic Stadium after a 200. He was wearing gloves and a woolen cap.

Essential summer wear for London.

— John Pye

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GEORGE MICHAEL NEWS

Hey, George Michael fans: You gotta have faith.

The former Wham! star has reliable he will be behaving during a Olympics closer on Sunday. He tweeted Tuesday: “Spending many of a subsequent week rehearsing like crazy for a Olympic shutting ceremony.”

Michael was hospitalized with life-threatening pneumonia late final year though has given recovered. He tweeted that he was “a bit shaken not carrying played for scarcely a year,” though pronounced rehearsals were sounding great.

Roger Daltrey has reliable that The Who will play a ceremony, billed as “a harmony of British music.” No acknowledgment nonetheless on a widely rumored Spice Girls reunion.

— Jill Lawless http://Twitter.com/JillLawless

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HERO CLEANER

It was a sports fan’s nightmare: Leaving a span of Olympics tickets on a swarming newcomer train, afterwards nearing during a venue to comprehend you’re dull handed.

When they found out they had misplaced their tickets, mom and son rushed behind to Liverpool Street hire usually to find a sight had been spotless and a tickets were still missing.

It could have been a genuine disaster though a assistance of a Greater Anglia cleaner, Gaspare Giarracco, who went behind into a sight station’s rabble cans and rummaged around until he found a changed tickets.

“I was dynamic to assistance a customer, find a tickets and make certain a story had a happy ending,” pronounced Giarracco, 42, who perceived a special ‘Champions’ endowment from his company.

— Raissa Ioussouf — Twitter http://twitter.com/Rioussouf

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QUICKQUOTE: GABBY DOUGLAS

“We’re unequivocally not losers. We’re like superheroes. We do tricks that no one can do. we don’t consider it unequivocally looks easy, it’s usually that we make mistakes or have a bad day or it’s not a time to shine. If it isn’t, it isn’t.” — Gabby Douglas on not medaling on a change beam.

— Jon Krawczynski — Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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TAKE THAT, GLEE

What would Gleeks make of this?

The Olympics are trouncing “Glee” in a recognition stakes with American teenage girls.

The IOC says NBC’s ratings for a London Olympics among girls aged 12-17 is 89 percent aloft than a total for “Glee” — that usually happens to be on opposition network Fox.

IOC selling executive Timo Lumme cited a “Glee” comparison several times during a news discussion Tuesday to illustrate that younger viewers are examination in large numbers.

“The younger demographic has come back,” he said. “Teenage lady viewership is adult 54 percent.”

All that was blank was for Lumme to mangle into a hymn of “Don’t Stop Believing.”

— Stephen Wilson — Twitter http://twitter.com/stevewilsonap

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RUBBING IT IN

As if descending in an Olympic final isn’t tough adequate to take, China’s Chenglong Zhang had to relive it over and over while watchful for his measure in a together bars during Greenwich Arena.

Zhang’s left palm slipped early in his slight and he had to bail out and start over again. He got by it on a second try, though a repairs had been done.

While a judges tabulated his score, replays of Zhang’s fumble played twice on a scoreboard video shade and were dissected by a announcer.

Zhang attempted to demeanour away. When his measure of 13.808 was announced, he usually shook his head.

— Jon Krawczynski — Twitter http://www.twitter.com/APKrawczynski

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USAIN’S JUMP ROPE

Usain Bolt is not giving adult on attempts to move his criminialized burst wire into Olympic Stadium.

Bolt uses a burst wire before he races. He complained after winning a 100-meter lurch on Sunday about a despotic track policies that also prevented him from bringing in his iPad.

“There are a lot of rules, oh my God,” Bolt said. “You can’t do anything. we was entrance and wanted to move my tablets in and they pronounced we couldn’t. we asked why. It is usually a rule. we had my skipping wire in my bag and they pronounced we can’t move it in. Why? It is usually a rule.”

After cruising by his initial feverishness in a 200 meters on Tuesday, Bolt pronounced he is still dynamic to get that burst wire in.

“They took it from me again,” Bolt said. “But I’m going to get it in tomorrow. we am going to put them during a bottom of my bag or something.”

Games organizer Sebastian Coe says there will be an review into a burst wire issue.

— Jenna Fryer — Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer

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