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Play games, learn for free and see what Open University academics have to say about the world's biggest sporting event with our dedicated Olympics portal
From the first games to modern training, explore the Olympics
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Watch this video to find out how athletes like Jessica Ennis and Tom Daley get into the zone
The 2012 Olympics will create millions of temporary new neighbours for many Londoners. How will it affect the sense of order? Read more : Olympics: When the world comes to town
Whilst sport is a largely physical endeavour, the psychological aspects of sports performance, and the role of the coach, should not be underestimated. Read more : The psychological Olympian
Shape and size matter – but are they the difference between success and failure in sport? Simon Rea explains. Read more : The physical Olympian
Ben Oakley explores some of the social factors significant in developing top sports people. Read more : The social Olympian: Family and geography
Why not use the Olympics as an excuse to Give an Hour to help someone you know get online? Find out how here.
For information on other educational initiatives around the Games, visit the London 2012 education programme, Get Set.
Olympic atheletes explain how they cope with injury and other setbacks - and the OU's...
Ben Oakley askes whether as a nation we’re any good at sport?
This series of tracks looks at Health and Fitness centres and how they are run as well as...
The Bankers series comes to an end, while BBC One regions take a look at poverty around...
Michael Palin returns to the fields of the First World War, and Laverne Antrobus explores...
In the first ever Open University programme to be broadcast on BBC One, Jerry Hall...
In two runs of programmes in 2011, Laurie Taylor explored the social sciences. Dip...
From the cave at Paviland to the ex-council houses of Merthyr, explore the surprising...
Hippocrates' four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals and home remedies. The...
In a series of special reports Credit Crash Britain investigates the issues that are...
Charles Hazlewood takes us to the heart of two of Tchaikovsky's greatest works.
The Bankers series comes to an end, while BBC One regions take a look at poverty around...
This final film of the series looks at the country’s single biggest killer –...
The Diamond that brought down a bank, the mystery of Stonehenge and much more...
28/29 September: Place, nationhood and community. The Rest is Noise considers Britten's...
This week's episode sets the increasing demands on the NHS against the very real costs of...
Click and More Or Less return; while Bristol finds itself coping with TB.
I actually only found this site by chance whilst browsing through the comments on the Guardian Olympic section. But there's a wealth of information on here.
Free interviews with Olympians, science and politics; its a little treasure mine!
ben @ www.ldngames.co.uk
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