Paralympic Games
With the Paralympic Games just around the corner, organisers have unveiled a unique way to follow the Torch’s relay as it travels to the opening ceremony. Twitter users around the world are being asked to help ‘light’ the flame by including the hashtag #ParalympicFlame in their tweets. The Rio
Olympic Games
The first casualty of the International Olympic Committee’s militant anti-social media stance has been revealed: Athlon Sports writer Jim Weber. During this year’s Olympic Games Jim posted a GIF of American gymnast Aly Raisman’s floor routine on Twitter – which he’d spotted on the front page of
Olympic Flame
The countdown to this year’s Olympic Games in Rio has begun, with the Olympic Flame taking to Twitter to announce the start of the relay. At 5.30am UK time the flame sent its first tweet in anticipation of the lighting ceremony in southern Greece. Within a few hours