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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government has threatened the country's telecommunications giants with forced asset sales, unveiling a plan to loosen billionaire Carlos Slim's hold on the telephone market and curb broadcaster Televisa's dominance of the airwaves.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government presented on Monday a major reform bill that aims to loosen billionaire Carlos Slim's hold on the telecommunications market and curb top broadcaster Televisa's rule of the airwaves.
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Some seven months after the Olympic flame was finally extinguished, ending London 2012, thousands of athletes will return to the capital this weekend. But this time the world’s elite runners will be up against a woman knitting a scarf and the planet’s fastest giant foam rubber fire extinguisher.
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Turkey's Asli Cakir, who won gold in the women's 1500m at London 2012, faces a lifetime ban after anti-doping charge.
bbci.co.uk (19 days ago)

The Olympic 1500-metre champion, Asli Cakir Alpetekin, faces being stripped of her London 2012 gold medal and a lifetime ban after being charged with doping offences for the second time in her career.
dailymail.co.uk (19 days ago)

The Olympic 1500-metre champion, Asli Cakir Alpetekin, faces being stripped of her London 2012 gold medal and a lifetime ban after being charged with doping offences for the second time in her career.
dailymail.co.uk (19 days ago)

London 2012 organisers are to sell off hundreds of items that were used during the Games. They include an Olympic torch signed by four-time Olympic sailing champion Sir Ben Ainslie.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 6 days ago)
LONDON (Reuters) - Rapper Jay-Z will return to the London Olympics site this summer where he performed at the 2012 Paralympics as the sporting complex takes on a new life as the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
reuters.com (3 months and 2 days ago)
Mexico’s new telecom reform should give the country’s business owners something to cheer about. After Mexico’s July 1 2012 election, I watched a mob of spirited protesters march through downtown Mexico City. They shouted their discontent with the country’s newly elected president and condemned Mexico’s broadcast giant Televisa, saying it had unfairly influenced the result of...
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Timelapse video shows building work at the former London 2012 Olympic Park, 100 days before the park reopens to the public
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