winning shot for russia europe ask two thousand and seven is also part of the squad for the beijing olympics. and staying with the olympics there's just a fortnight to go before singapore hosts the first ever u.s. games from the fourteenth to the twenty sixth of august more than five thousand young athletes from all over the globe be meeting in twenty six disciplines with a share of events following the one that will run in london twenty twelve this will also be the first ever to read thank you both cultural and educational programs food. is an opportunity to bring people together those the developing ideals by having the purpose of the first youth games used to do this at a much younger age for various athletes around the world so that we can incorporate into them because strong liberal values that the libyans want to promote at a young age and we hope that we will carry these values forward as they grow up and spread it. to all corners of the world i should mention that my career started i want to hear a goal when i went to the young reporters training camp to singapore so after that i cam

shot for russia and the euro bosky two thousand and seven animals also part of the sport at the beijing olympics a year later. i thought it's now where russia won the gold on day three of the european championships in barcelona the team now tops the overall table with nine medals example of claiming the top honors in the men's high jump of a world leading mark of two meters thirty three centimeters so both the stars. go for the reigning world and european the champion wildly mark burnett to cross. over to malta sports and make a head of money and has clocked the fosse the style in the shakedown for the rally a fan months before dr who. his home with and last year needed just two minutes and two point two seconds to complete the task track however that was just one town for every second week of one teammate and compadres months involved and reigning champions to boston of france and obviously try and draw us about here was one tenth of a second for the back oh she is currently second overall fifty one winds behind to finish my third and fourth spots. all to golf now and the alabama boys stay juni

britain has learned from the experiences of past olympic hosts, who have often incurred hefty costs in order to provide luxury facilities. in contrast to beijing, london aims to show the world how to host an austere olympics. however, the hope will be to hold the games with the same high level of passion and devotion to the olympic ideal. craig thomson, nhk world, london. >> the london olympics will feature events in 26 categories, two fewer than the beijing games. >>> japanese diners looking for a cheap meal are in luck as a price war among japanese gyudon beef bowl restaurant chains heats up. japan's leading gyudon restaurant chain, yoshinoya holdings, is offering its mainstay regular bowl at $3.10 for one week, starting wednesday. that's about $1.30 cheaper than the usual price. in the beef bowl restaurant industry zensho, which operates the nationwide chain sukiya, cut the price of its regular beef bowl by 10% until august 9th, while another chain, matsuia foods, will offer special markdowns starting on thursday. this price competition among gyudon chains is expected to spill over into other food providers including convenience stores and

. >> larry: you went to the beijing olympics, right? you toured for three months? >> right.on and off. i would be home a few days, on the road a few days, kind of here and there. toward the end of that period things started kind of going south. rick was very focused into facebook and other social media type of things. i just noticed that he was gone. and i wasn't really paying attention to my own responsibility, and i was very focused on what he was doing. >> larry: what were you doing, rick? >> i discovered in an e-mail. >> i discovered what i was doing was really kind of escaping. facebook and the internet and all that stuff was a way to get away from stress and some of the distance that i felt between melissa and i that had developed, and just this kind of stresses and struggles of running a business and being a parent of five boys. >> larry: so you had an affair? >> it was an emotional affair. yes, it was a big mistake. it was just a part of the symptom of all the stuff going on at that point. >> larry: how long did it last? >> actually got nipped in the bud pretty quick

but what i'm concerned about, i always think about those the beijing olympics with the 2,000 perfectly synchronized drummers in the opening ceremony. i thought when i saw that we're in trouble. those drums are getting lour and louder. while they're building high speed rail in shanghai, we're still debating transportation policy and unfortunately, not coming together as we need as a country and while brazil is producing more and more engineers and scientists, we are falling behind. so that is my major focus here. one of the parts of this is how we generated more commercially focused university research and i mean that in the best of ways. sothat that is also focused on jobs. and that we use our universities and great learning institutions as incubators for new ideas that will become the next google or the next medtronic in minnesota. could you comment on that and how we can doing that and maybe improve the requirements of the america competes act? >> i want to first agree with you completely of how important their innovative research is. when you talk to businesses, the thing that they

they called it the greatest show on earth, beijing's olympics two year ago. next up, london. onsjohn with two years to go today, the perennial question? >> yes, it's almost a year early. the smart thing would be for us to hold a snap olympics and wrack up some medals. >> reporter: stafford in east long done was one of the capital's poorest areas. now the biggest construction site in europe. as for the opening ceremony, it's no competition with beijing. the ceremony's director danny boyle, won an oscar for directing "slum dog millionaire". >> spectacular but in different kinds of way. >> reporter: as in london's last olympics in 1948, there's a reseg. the government is looking for huge spending cut. the olympics cost $14 billion, three times the original budget. one iconic buildings will be funded with private money. fb of course, londoners are always concerned about one thing, the rain. billy sheen has been a london cabbie for 40 years. >> i think london is a great city. we can put on a great show. we always have done. >> reporter: it's too early to know which athletes will m

but what i'm concerned about, i always think about those the beijing olympics with the 2,000 perfectly synchronized drummers in the opening ceremony. i thought when i saw that we're in trouble. those drums are getting louder and louder. while they're building high speed rail in shanghai, we're still debating transportation policy and unfortunately, not coming together as we need as a country and while brazil is producing more and more engineers and scientists, we are falling behind. so that is my major focus here. one of the parts of this is how we generated more commercially focused university research and i mean that in the best of ways. so that that is also focused on jobs. and that we use our universities and great learning institutions as incubators for new ideas that will become the next google or the next medtronic in minnesota. could you comment on that and how we can doing that and maybe improve the requirements of the america competes act? >> i want to first agree with you completely of how important their innovative research is. when you talk to businesses, the thing that th

that's more than beijing spent getting ready for the 2008 olympics.ath taking, even by asian standards. >> for the last 20 years, the city has been built building parks, encouraging the establishment of museums. it demonstrates that there is vision and planning in a city that a lot of people come to and think, gosh, it's chaos out there. but that's not case. >> reporter: it's still chaos on the streets of shanghai, but it is chaos with style. >> osgood: ahead, we're off to the movies. and ladies, start your engines. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: with the proper helmet, any woman can join the ranks of the driving divas or so rita braver and her new traveling companions would have us believe. >> pure relaxation. it's just being absolutely free out there thinking i'm in control of my destiny. when you get out there and get away from traffic, ah! >> reporter: karen davidson has been riding since she was nine. she has motorcycling in her blood. the great granddaughter of harley davidson co-founder william davidson, karen is one of the first women to work for the