The Olympic Cauldron has been moved into place at the end of the London 2012 stadium but it will not be visible to people outside.

Historian Dr Tom Hunt came up with a few gems from Ireland’s lesser known Olympic triumphs and disasters

On the evening of July 28, 1948, Britain’s Prime Minister Clement Attlee welcomed the thousands of Olympic athletes, who had congregated in London, with a warm but candid address on BBC radio.

If there ever is a posthumous Olympic medal awarded for intransigence, then the ghost of David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley, sixth marquess of Exeter, gold medal winner at the 1928 Olympics and chairman of the organising and executive committees of the 1948 London Games, will surely float on the podium.

IT was such a coveted secret that Hitler sent his most trusted filmmaker to Ireland to capture it.