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  • Jean-Charles Valladont for France against Holland during the Men’s archery recurve team, gold medal match, at the Olympic Sports Complex on the 22nd June 2019 in Minsk in Belarus.
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  • Bronze for Denmark during the women’s archery recurve team medal ceremony, at the Olympic Sports Complex on the 22nd June 2019 in Minsk in Belarus. Left to right featuring Randi Degn, Maja Jager and Annie Marie Laursen
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  • Silver for team Belarus during the women’s archery recurve team medal ceremony, at the Olympic Sports Complex on the 22nd June 2019 in Minsk in Belarus. Left to right Karyna Dziominskaya, Karyna Kozlovskaya and Hanna Marusava.
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  • Karyna Kozlovskaya for team Belarus during the women’s archery recurve team, gold medal match, at the Olympic Sports Complex on the 22nd June 2019 in Minsk in Belarus.
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  • Hanna Marusava for team Belarus during the women’s archery recurve team, gold medal match, at the Olympic Sports Complex on the 22nd June 2019 in Minsk in Belarus.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team receive their bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at the Team GB Ball on Thursday 21 November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The GB 1 crew, consisting of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and John Jackson, finished the competition in fifth place but following the disqualification of two crews have been promoted into the bronze medal position. Athletes from both Russia 1, gold medallists, and Russia 2, fourth, were found to have committed doping violations following thorough re-analysis of samples taken during the Games.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team receive their bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at the Team GB Ball on Thursday 21 November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The GB 1 crew, consisting of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and John Jackson, finished the competition in fifth place but following the disqualification of two crews have been promoted into the bronze medal position. Athletes from both Russia 1, gold medallists, and Russia 2, fourth, were found to have committed doping violations following thorough re-analysis of samples taken during the Games.
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  • British artistic gymnast Becky Downie at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British rower Will Satch during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnast Ellie Downie at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British Sailing team mates Eilidh Mcintyre and Hannah Mills at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnasts Becky Downie left and Ellie Downie at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British former track cyclist Callum Skinner at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnast Joe Fraser during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnast Amy Tinkler  during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Great Britain’s cyclist, Jo Rowsell Shand MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team Joel Fearon, Bruce Tasker slightly out of shot, Stuart Benson and John Jackson being interviewed by Sky News during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British former bobsledder and track athlete Bruce Tasker at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team receive their bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at the Team GB Ball on Thursday 21 November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The GB 1 crew, consisting of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and John Jackson, finished the competition in fifth place but following the disqualification of two crews have been promoted into the bronze medal position. Athletes from both Russia 1, gold medallists, and Russia 2, fourth, were found to have committed doping violations following thorough re-analysis of samples taken during the Games.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team receive their bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at the Team GB Ball on Thursday 21 November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The GB 1 crew, consisting of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and John Jackson, finished the competition in fifth place but following the disqualification of two crews have been promoted into the bronze medal position. Athletes from both Russia 1, gold medallists, and Russia 2, fourth, were found to have committed doping violations following thorough re-analysis of samples taken during the Games.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team receive their bronze medal from the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games at the Team GB Ball on Thursday 21 November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. The GB 1 crew, consisting of Joel Fearon, Stuart Benson, Bruce Tasker and John Jackson, finished the competition in fifth place but following the disqualification of two crews have been promoted into the bronze medal position. Athletes from both Russia 1, gold medallists, and Russia 2, fourth, were found to have committed doping violations following thorough re-analysis of samples taken during the Games.
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  • British rower Victoria Thornley during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British rower Victoria Thornley during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Retired English professional middleweight boxer Anthony Ogogo during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Retired British Olympic rower Kat Copeland MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Retired British Olympic rower Kat Copeland MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British professional basketball player Eric Boateng at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British Sailing Tom Squires during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Members of the Rugby 7s team at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Former British skeleton racer Amy Williams MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • English former competitive swimmer Liam Tancock with English international field hockey player Georgie Twigg MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British swimmer Elizabeth Simmonds during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Former performance director for the British Bobsleigh at Team Gary Anderson at GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • English former competitive swimmer Liam Tancock with English international field hockey player Georgie Twigg MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British swimmer Elizabeth Simmonds during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British former bobsledder and track athlete Bruce Tasker and wife at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnast Amy Tinkler  during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnast Max Whitlock MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British artistic gymnast Max Whitlock MBE during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Leon Taylor, a British former competitive diver, during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British sprinter and bobsledder Joel Fearon at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Team GB’s four-man bobsleigh team Joel Fearon, Bruce Tasker, Stuart Benson and John Jackson during Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Former British bobsledder Stuart Benson at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • British former bobsleigher and Royal Marines commando John Jackson at Team GB’s annual ball at Old Billingsgate on the 21st November 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • A few miles from the finish line, this long-distance runner has stopped in agony to lean against the walls beneath Tower Bridge during th London Marathon, England. Pushing against the solid wall and stretching his cramped leg muscles, he grimaces in pain as other runners speed past on their way completing their personal race. Pushed to his limits, this man needs to continue a few more Kilometres to claim his medal and to claim victory. But he still has to overcome the pain of an overworked body. When glycogen runs low, the body must then burn stored fat for energy, which does not burn as readily. When this happens, the runner will experience dramatic fatigue. This is called "hitting the wall".
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  • London park goalpost on an early misty morning. Football is off, cancelled due to bad weather but the remnants of the last game has been left by the frozen muddy goalmouth. In the distance are the misty forms of 100 year-old ash trees and the hazy presence of Edwardian residential homes.
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  • A long-distance runner prepares for the London Marathon before the race begins, whilst warming-up in Greenwich Park, London England. Seen in close-up detail, we see his hands and fingers massaging Vaseline jelly into his thighs and groin area to help avoid chafing during the annual 26-mile race through London's streets. He is wearing bright, garish running shorts decorated wth the British Union Jack flag, a sure sign of his patriotic attitude. Other runners are in the background, also preparing clothing that will be taken from the start to the finish line in Westminster.
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  • On a hot afternoon on Calcutta's Maidan, an Indian lady catches a frisbee disc in both hands in front of the glorious Victoria Memorial, the beautiful marble structure built by the British still during the days of the colonial Indian Raj. The lady is lit with golden light and her bottle green sari stands out from a background tree. She grimaces as she stretches to hold on to the frisbee and there are many hundreds of families and groups in the background, nearer to the white, domed building. Built between 1906 and 1921, it is a majestic white marble building at the southern end of the Maidan, a large expansive park in central Calcutta city. Nowadays it is a museum and group activities are being discouraged due to the fears that pollution will damage this fine structure that honours Queen Victoria, then Empress of India.
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  • Half-way across the Gulf of Mexico, between Miami and Cancun in Mexico, a rather overweight passenger on Carnival Cruise's Fun Ship Ecstasy struggles to push his obese body around the ship’s top Sun Deck Olympic jogging track. In evening tropical sunlight, the man runs while sweating and panting , punishing himself while listening to a portable Walkman music player (before the era of digital MP3s). Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship featuring two pools, whirlpools, a variety of dining options, nightclubs, a casino, and duty-free shopping, catering to budget travel.
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  • The musician with the 80s band The Police, Sting supports the charity Sport Aids running event in Londons Hyde Park, on 25th May 1986, in London, England. Sport Aid also known as Sports Aid was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries. Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF. A second lower-key Sport Aid was held in 1988.
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  • English musician, Sting appears at the first Sport Aid event Run the World in May 1986 at Londons Hyde Park England. Sport Aid  was a sport-themed campaign for African famine relief held in May 1986, involving several days of all-star exhibition events in various sports, and culminating in the Race Against Time, a 10 km fun run held simultaneously in 89 countries.[1] Timed to coincide with a UNICEF development conference in New York City, Sport Aid raised $37m for Live Aid and UNICEF.
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  • A mid-afternoon jogger runs over the junction of Bishopsgate as a London double-decker bus advertising Sky Sports drives south. With a theme of sporting endeavour and personal fitness alongside the corporate message of this broadcaster, advertising its brand on London's public transport. Striding across the box junction on this ancient thoroughfare in the City of London, the capital's financial heart, the man heads south while listening to mp3 music on a personal device.
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  • Portugals national hero, the footballer Christiano Ronaldo, has his face distorted on beach towel merchandising in a parody detail, on 18th July 2016, at Costa Novo, near Aveira, Portugal. Ronaldo is one of the worlds sporting superstars, especially after his teams recent historic victory over France in the final of the Euro 2016 tournament.
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  • Young smiling couple pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The young woman seems delighted with her selfie and smiles next to the sports hero's own rugged jaw and white teeth. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • Man passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The bald-headed man gestures to others next to the sports hero's name in the bottom corner. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • Men pass a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London.  The two males walk past in good humour, one inhaling from his cigarette - the symbol of an unhealthy lifestyle versus the machismo character of athlete and sports hero. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • A hot air balloon is partially inflated before flight at Longleat Estate, Warminster, England. Using firstly cold air from a gas-powered fan, before its propane burners are used for final inflation, one of the ground crew assists in the process by pulling at the fragile synthetic material so that the volume within the whole 'envelope' can fill without damage and it's spectrum arc of colours are becoming rainbow-like. The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. The first manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a balloon created by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. In today's sport balloons the envelope is generally made from nylon fabric and the mouth of the balloon (closest to the burner flame) is made from fire resistant material such as Nomex.
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  • A Matadores pauses for a moment before entering the bullring at an evening Corrida de Touros, on 15th July 2016, at Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. A matador de toros or killer of bulls from Latin mactator, killer, slayer, from mactare, to slay is considered to be both an artist and an athlete, possessing great agility, grace, and co-ordination. The great personal danger of bullfighting adds to the performing matadors mystique; matadores are regularly injured by bulls and, concurrently, 533 professional bullfighters have been killed in the arena since 1700. In the Portuguese version, unlike Spanish bullfights, the bull is not killed.
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  • Detail of celebrity faces masks lined-up in a west end tourist shop rack. Actors such as George Clooney, Marylin Monroe, Daniel Craig and Brad Pitt; politician George W Bush and football manager Sir Alex Ferguson are seen behind the wire cage of this tourism retailer in central London. Seen in the rows and columns is a scene of fame and stardom: The popular personalities of showbiz, politics and sport, on sale for an insatiable wannabe audience.
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  • Standing behind barriers opposite Prime Minister Brown's Downing Street in Whitehall, the heart of Britain's governmental district in Westminster, some of the thousands of pro-Tibet protesters angrily shout their messages to 80 torchbearing personalities who ran 31 miles through the UK capital's streets. We see them holding images of dead Tibetans, killed by Chinese forces during the most recent crackdown in Lhasa and holding placards with anti-Chinese messages. Amid chaotic scenes across London and Paris where mass-arrests and civil disobedience marked what was planned as a  pre-Olympic carnival, the IOC's event proved a disaster for Chinese organisers. 37 were arrested but these facts were blanked from official TV screens which showed only the calm personlities who carried in turn the Olympic flame.
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  • Nick Leeson, the former banker known as the Barings Rogue Trader seen Terryland Park, the home of Galway United, Ireland. Leeson is known as the former Rogue Trader whose financial market risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century when he brought about the collapse of his employer, Barings Bank (personal bank to HM The Queen) in 1995. Leeson's role and subsequent jailing is one of the most notorious episodes in debacles in modern financial history. Leeson is CEO of Galway United Football Club whose home ground is at Terryland Park, founded in 1024 and with a capacity of 6,000. Leeson is still busy giving motivational speeches to companies around the world.
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  • Covered in logos and commercial branding, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton attends a press conference hosted by the aircraft manufacturer Bombardier whose Learjet 45 he uses to attend races and events around the world. Fulfilling his commitments to the many sponsors of his McLaren team and those of his personal life, Hamilton travels to events inbetween his professional driving at Grand Prix around the world. He uses the Learjet as a means of fast flight after races to spend more time with his family and to prepare for the next race. Lewis smiles towards a questioner looking relaxed and confident, the perfect good-looking young professional at the top of his game.
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  • Ready for the arrival of Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton who is about to attend a press conference hosted by the aircraft manufacturer Bombardier, his name is seen on a press conference table. He uses Bombardier's Learjet 45 to attend races and events around the world. Fulfilling his commitments to the many sponsors of his McLaren team and those of his personal life, Hamilton travels to events between his professional driving at Grand Prix around the world. He uses the Learjet as a means of fast flight after races to spend more time with his family and to prepare for the next track competition.
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  • From a high viewpoint on Snow Hill, we see the green  'Long Walk' in the Royal Estate's Windsor Great Park. We look down the 3-mile straight road into the distance towards Windsor Castle in the summer shinshine during the equestrian 3-Day Event held annually on Her Majesty the Queens's property. Half-way down the lush avenue of Elm trees there are some horses and their riders either warming up before competition, or galloping across the landscape on a round against the clock. A few spectators have stopped to watch this part of the course but others are elsewhere at the dramatic water jumps. The Long Walk was commenced by Charles II from 1680-1685 by planting a double avenue of elm trees. The central carriage road was added by Queen Anne in 1710. Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the River Thames. A vast area of Windsor Forest to the south of the castle became reserved by the King for personal hunting and also to supply the castle with wood, deer, boar and fish. Windsor Great Park (locally referred to simply as the Great Park) is a large deer park and Crown Estate of 5,000 acres, to the south of the town of Windsor on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England. The park was, for many centuries, the private hunting ground of Windsor Castle and dates primarily from the mid-13th century. Now largely open to the public, the parkland is a popular recreation area for residents of the western London suburbs.
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  • Taking a break from the London Marathon, a young runner dressed as Superman emerges from a Portaloo after a quick toilet stop. Located at the London Fire Brigade's station on Lower Thames Street in City of London in the capital's historic financial district, their empty fire hose snakes across the ground. The young man wears trainers, a red skirt, a Super-hero top with the Superman emblem on his chest and he walks out of the portable convenience adjusting a green frizzy wig. Disgarded mineral water bottles have been thrown on the ground by other passing athletes but this is a theatrical pun, that Superman changes personality, name and powers when leaving a telephone box. Apart from the colour (color) of the toilet, the runner and the hose, the background is drab and overcast.  The City of London has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000. The City of London is a geographically-small City within Greater London, England. The City as it is known, is the historic core of London from which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew. The City's boundaries have remained constant since the Middle Ages but  it is now only a tiny part of Greater London. The City of London is a major financial centre, often referred to as just the City or as the Square Mile, as it is approximately one square mile (2.6 km) in area. London Bridge's history stretches back to the first crossing over Roman Londinium, close to this site and subsequent wooden and stone bridges have helped modern London become a financial success.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ads are for Visa and for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ads are for Visa and for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • With giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes behind them, spectator crowds descend steps at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • With giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes behind them, spectator crowds descend steps at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take the Stage' campaign including diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis. Situated on the fringe of the 2012 Olympic park, Westfield is Europe's largest urban shopping centre providing the main access to the Olympic park with a central 'street' giving 75% of Olympic visitors access to the main stadium so retail space.
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  • The giant presence of Team GB role-model athlete heroes on the side of the their HQ at the Westfield City shopping complex, Stratford that leads to the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics, the 30th Olympiad. The ad is for sports footwear brand Adidas and their 'Take The Stage' campaign. The faces include diver Tom Daley, gymnast Louis Smith and the darling of British athletics, heptathlete gold medallist Jessica Ennis
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  • At a beauty talent contest, the finalists line up to await the judges decision. The girls are dressed in all their finery with dresses, pinned up hair and sashes as they're seated in the gym at the Bedford-King Recreation Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The black community hold annual events here including sports competitions and occasions such this pageant where the girls and also boys prove their talents and potential. One young lady however, sees fit to poke her tongue out at the viewer in a cheeky display of humour and character. Her rivals seem oblivious and unaware of her irreverence but perhaps the judge is watching and her chances of winning are now impossible!
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  • Woman with fan shielding her face from sunchine passes a Nike retail poster of Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy, in central London. The scene has a theme of smiles and smiling faces with the teeth of the British golfing hero, sponsored by the Nike brand.
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  • Before finalists take part in their last exercises at a gymkhana pony competition, these rosettes prizes seen here in close-up detail wait to be claimed by young winners and losers. From the top we see prizes for Reserve Champions then those for 1st prize, then second, third and runners-up at the very bottom. Such accolades are won and lost by fractions of a second but their importance is remembered for years afterwards as young girls desperately practice to improve their equestrian skills. A huge commitment is needed by the girls and their parents who spend great deals of money and time for these treasured prizes which can be won or lost by fractions of seconds or single points. Those that fail to win go home feeling empty-handed or perhaps cheated out of victory and glory. Those who win hang them on bedroom walls for years to come.
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  • Before finalists take part in their last exercises at a gymkhana pony competition, these rosettes prizes seen here in close-up detail wait to be claimed by young winners and losers. From the top we see prizes for Reserve Champions then those for 1st prize, then second, third and runners-up at the very bottom. Such accolades are won and lost by fractions of a second but their importance is remembered for years afterwards as young girls desperately practice to improve their equestrian skills. A huge commitment is needed by the girls and their parents who spend great deals of money and time for these treasured prizes which can be won or lost by fractions of seconds or single points. Those that fail to win go home feeling empty-handed or perhaps cheated out of victory and glory. Those who win hang them on bedroom walls for years to come.
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  • As a boy swings from a tree, canoeists enjoy a day's paddling down the River Lesse, Belgium's prime kayaking destination  in the southern Ardennes region. At Anseremme, south of the town of Dinant, the adventurers negotiate their way down 21 km of gentle fresh water through the beautiful Belgian gorges and forests. Before plunging down a weir (Barrage in French) near a camp site they are pelted by splashing water from campers in the water. The red canoes have been hired for the day from 'Kayaks Ansiaux' and another rival company who rent blue boats. Families and young people make the slow journey along the Lesse, Paddles match the colours of the canoes and they all glint off a strong afternoon sun during the high-season holiday month. Most commonly routes start in Han and go all the way down to Dinant, where the Lesse meets the Meuse.
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  • A white man stands with his hands on his hips in his power boat in the English Channel just outside Folkestone Harbour, Kent, England, United Kingdom. He has set up a fishing rod of the back side of the boat.
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  • A large, manly woman sips a pint of lager during a darts tournament where she competes in an England Open tournament at the Bunn Leisure Holiday Park in Selsey, near Chichester on the south coast of England. Holding three darts with a Union Jack flags on the 'flights', her glass covers her face but we see her rings and bracelet and her ample belly after a life of beer and cigarettes in pubs like this. A great deal of alcohol (mostly lager, but also Coke) is consumed during darts tournaments although smoking in public places has now been banned in the UK, including pubs and bars. This audience seemed to consist largely of very large lesbian women from working families which seems to suggest that the pub (and alcohol) is still the place where women are attracted to the game of darts.
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  • Russian Anastasia Dobromyslova (from Tver, Moscow) is the highest-ranking ladies' darts player, having beaten the 7 times champion Trina Gulliver. Here, she competes in an England Open tournament at the Bunn Leisure Holiday Park in Selsey, near Chichester on the south coast of England. Attractive and feminine, she is confident and at ease with her game amid many lesbian women who frequent darts matches like this. She concentrates on each dart thrown and is oblivious to the audience's noise behind her in an upstairs pub at the holiday park. This is one of her many tournaments she travels to during the darts events calendar although she needs to repeatedly renew her visa to gain re-entry into the UK.
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  • Russian Anastasia Dobromyslova (from Tver, Moscow) is the highest-ranking ladies' darts player, having beaten the 7 times champion Trina Gulliver. Here, she competes in an England Open tournament at the Bunn Leisure Holiday Park in Selsey, near Chichester on the south coast of England. Attractive and feminine, she is confident and at ease with her game amid many lesbian women who frequent darts matches like this. She concentrates on each dart thrown and is oblivious to the audience's noise behind her in an upstairs pub at the holiday park. This is one of her many tournaments she travels to during the darts events calendar although she needs to repeatedly renew her visa to gain re-entry into the UK.
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  • A satirical Margaret Thatcher Spitting Image puppet by Fluck and Law wears a blue Conservative rosette and For Hire sticker. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher seen on TV wagging a finger during exchanges at the dispatch box with Labour opposition. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher arrives with her late-husband Dennis at the formal 1990 Tory Party conference ball. Thatcher died on April 8th 2013 after suffering a stroke while staying in the Ritz Hotel, London.
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  • Margaret Thatcher plays up to the media at a North London school in her own constituency of Finchley during the 1992 general election. Although Thatcher had already resigned as Prime Minister in November 1990, John Major won the ensuing leadership election later that year. Photographers and cameramen surround the former-Prime Minister who is wearing a purple suit and matching broach. She is mid-sentence and has found something amusing to respond to the chants of the media. We see cameras, sound booms and flashes all prepared to photograph this famous statesman including Tom Stoddart who is making eye-contact with the viewer.
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  • A solo teenage player takes a shot at the net on a basketball court at the Cyprea Marine Foods (CMF) processing factory on Himmafushi Island, Maldives in the Indian Ocean. It is dusk near the equator and soon dark. The landscape is barren except for some young trees on the waterfront where two people are walking in the cool tropical air. Seen in the last, darkening light of day, the player leaps upwards and his arm stays where his ball left his hand to roll around the ring. The man is enjoying some leisure time at the end of his working day, possibly an employee of CMF who handle newly-caught tuna fish for export to the EU and the UK's supermarket food industry.
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  • A young skateboarder leaps into the air beneath the huge memorial to the German Communist leader Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944. The Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation, consisting of the Young Pioneers and the Thälmann Pioneers, was a youth scouting-styled organisation of schoolchildren aged 6 to 14, in East Germany. Its motto was" "Für Frieden und Sozialismus seid bereit – Immer bereit" ("For peace and socialism be ready - always ready") but the Pioneers were disbanded in 1989 after early protests here in Leipzig at the same time as the Berlin Wall and the Socialist state's fall.
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  • A single person crosses a pedestrian crossing that otherwise leads nowhere in Stratford during the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic, on 26th November 2020, in London, England. Stratford was the home iof the London 2012 Olympics where industrial estates centred around Carpenters Road were demolished to make way for sports venues  and now, after 8 years, for extensive housing.
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  • A Christian crucifix stands encased in a wooden box that has been attached to a panelled wall in Quebec, Canada. The image is white except for the Jesus icon itself and coloured lights which glow on this dark afternoon in the depths of Winter. The religious shrine consists of the human effigy standing a plinth next to faded dried flowers. On the left side are six wheel hubs also fixed to a wire fence that borders this person's property. Their decorative design suggests the Canadian owner likes driving sports or utility vehicles but who is also a worshipper of the Christian faith and believer in idols. Canada's 2001 Census showed, 72% of the Canadian population listed Roman Catholicism or Protestantism as their religion. The Roman Catholic Church in Canada is by far the country's largest single denomination.
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  • Low-budget east London housing and the 2012 Olympic stadium that dominates the end of a street of a nearby estate. Locals make their way up the road with the enormous arena behind that will hold 80,000. In a few months the world's attention will focus on the sports and personalities of athletes, financed by the UK's already struggling economy. Much has been reported over the legacy of such a mammoth project, the largest of urban parks created in Europe for more than 150 years built during a worldwide recession. Londoners were originally promised free event tickets but communities like this are largely excluded from the games.
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