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22 Nov 2014 - 11:03am
ENERGY STABILIZER AS GOD'S ENDOWMENT: WHY YOU CAN WITHSTAND 4TH DENSITY WAVES Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra Brotherhood of Light This fellow of the Brotherhood of Light, an Initiate of a certain degree, member of the Ashram of Mahatma El Morya, will highlight in this note the heraldry about the Energy Stabilizer gifted to each one of you by the Almighty Father. This particular phenomenon is one that made me reluctant to release, wary as always of the repercussions of a premature public...
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21 Nov 2014 - 10:49pm
Not to long ago... days if I am remembering correctly... our nerves felt like they were being shredded to pieces, only to be replaced by excitement and bursting joy for no apparent reason. I gotta say, the latter sure as hell feels better than shredded nerves!! However, I do understand both, now that it's all in hindsight of course. A rapid acceleration occurred for many. An acceleration that would have taken us another month and a half to complete, instead, we did it...
21 Nov 2014 - 5:55pm
Kurthumi / Change . . Nov 21 , 2014 . . Everything you are, evry part of you, evry particle of you, is changing, is always changing. Question is ... changing in to what? changing in to same? or changing in to different? . . . . Kuthumi Channeling to hilarion ascendedmasters.info Copyright 2013-2014...
21 Nov 2014 - 5:43pm
Time marches on and you are now able to adapt to the faster pace it is running at, and still carry out the tasks that you have set yourselves. In the future you will find that it runs even faster and that you will go along with the changes. All that is happening is a part of the process that is going to propel you into the New Age. However, your re-action is often one of confusion as so much is happening at any one time. Providing you keep focused on what you know to be the purpose of them, you...
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21 Nov 2014 - 2:00pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness, November 21, 2014 - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/21/we-evolve-by-the-grace-of-source-part-22/ Concluded from Part 1 Ramakrishna also poses the question, "Is it possible to obtain God's grace just like that? A beggar may get a penny, if he asks for it. But suppose he asks you right off for his train fare. How about that?" (1) I think Ramakrishna intends to say that even though it might sound crazy, we can receive a wealth of grace and...
21 Nov 2014 - 2:43am
The Magic Rises and the Butterfly Emerges Opening the Portals of the 6th Dimension to Earth Reality November/December 2014 Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn image by Jean-Luc Bozzoli at www.eye-within.com This year of 2014 has been a powerful year of change, and yet more change, and at the same time it has seemed as though the choas intensifies daily. But, Beloved Ones, while you may see this intense chaos, you will also need to look deeper and see the Divine Pattern that is...
20 Nov 2014 - 7:08pm
Adherence to the heart . . The mind and the heart. . . . . Like the mind, not like the mind,... you have one. So you g-d d-mn better expand it. . . . Doing otherwise, is a semi delusory path followed by some, or many.. and this has created an imbalance in their being, and a failure to realize the full range of possibilities of self. . . . They are cautious, and range deep within from positive to negative, but part of their realization is and continues impaired in the ability so to speak to...
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20 Nov 2014 - 1:59pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness, November 20, 2014 - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/20/we-evolve-by-the-grace-of-source-part-12/ Our perception of God has been distorted on this planet for centuries. Through a gradual editing and discrediting of various religious texts that were otherwise genuine, we've been taught to believe that God's an angry man in the sky who sends 'sinners' to a fiery inferno because he doesn't like the things they did on earth. We're taught to...
The Humanity's Most Powerful, Latest Cultivation Discipline and Supreme Truth Enlightenment (CELESTIAL DISCIPLINE) in English, Chinese and VietnameseTeaching - 20 Nov 2014 - 1:34pmCelestial Way - Great Discipline - Hearted Cultivation (CELESTIAL DISCIPLINE) is Celestial Way's Training Book, the humanity's most powerful and lastest occult cultivation discipline and supreme truth enlightenment. These are the level 1-2-3-4; there're also more 3 levels has not widely teached. The practitioners are lucky to receive this cultivation method, if not practicing, please respect. Whether practicing, please try to progress, not show on the public media and the Web, not talk or...
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20 Nov 2014 - 4:05am
DEEPLY AWAKE: ENTANGLED by Kathy Vik "Grandma Cannon" 11-19-14 Dolores Cannon passed away a little while ago, and I did not comment on it, mainly because it was not a little thing, her passing, and I wanted to think on it before I spoke, out of respect for this fine author and explorer. I don't know how I found her books, who recommended them, or how they fell into my hands. All I know is, from the first page, I was hooked. I was home. I was just coming to, and aliens and spaceships was as good...
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19 Nov 2014 - 6:44pm
When one is on the path of ascension, they may eventually experience random acts of kindness. They are miraculously in the right place at the right time to lend a helping hand to those in need. Such a path may eventually lead one to experience divine grace. What exactly is grace? When we speak of grace in terms of ascension to higher consciousness, we are not referring to being graceful in regards to the poise and confidence that is typically conditioned due to one's upbringing or social...
19 Nov 2014 - 1:49pm
http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/19/oversoul-teachings-love-is-all-around-you/ (Note: I offer this message [and a few others that I'll offer in the coming days] on the heels of a decision to merge my channeling and writing into what I call 'meditative writing'. Combining my writing and channeling would mean I no longer produce 'Oversoul Teachings' messages, but I think it'll give the articles you read from me an added boost.) Awareness and love are growing in the minds and hearts of an...
19 Nov 2014 - 2:28am
Selamat Jalwa! (Be in everlasting Joy) We are entering a period where the ancient families have risen in importance among the Earth allies. They are presently in charge of a number of very sensitive negotiations. The purpose of these talks is to cement the conditions for the final surrender of the dark cabal. Once these agreements are in place, arrests at the highest level are to commence, and the dark cabal's terms are to bow out in a degree of ceremony. This process is one, which our...
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19 Nov 2014 - 12:04am
Seems to me that there's some sorta special energy inflowing just now. It feels like a completion energy. A dot the i's and cross the t's kinda energy. Tying the loose ends together. Putting the pieces together. Feels like we are on the very verge of something new and we're finishing off this part of the evolution adventure. Course it could be that this energy has actually been around for awhile and I was ducking and weaving to avoid it. I know that for quite awhile I've been wondering...
18 Nov 2014 - 10:18pm
Micro to Macro: Assisting the Acceleration Sandra Walter - November 18, 2014 http://www.sandrawalter.com/micro-to-macro-assisting-the-acceleration/ Blessings Beloveds, The accelerated timeline which HUmanity and Gaia activated last month, triggered by a cosmic alignment for a Pure Source Light Intelligence Gateway, provides new layers of possibility for HUmanity's Ascension. While we shifted to the primary timeline of Ascension many years ago, we continually choose the secondary timelines...
"What If The Cabal Was No Longer Present? Now, Act As If They Weren't" - Divine Mother and One Who Serves (Ascended Masters)Story - 18 Nov 2014 - 9:18pm"Divine Mother" channeled by Dr. Susan Sammarco "One Who Serves" channeled by James McConnell (Note: these messages were given during our weekly Prepare For Change group in Glendale, AZ) "Divine Mother" Greetings, my beloveds. I am the Divine Mother. What a wonderful choreography, Miss Ginny. Thank you for inviting this beautiful energy in this room. Breathe deeply of this blue energy that I come into this room with. You may smell the scent of roses. Feel the peace and tranquility that my entry...
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18 Nov 2014 - 2:01pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/18/ferguson-and-unnecessary-racial-division/ I live about half an hour away from Ferguson, MO, and I've talked with a couple people who live in the community. The people who live there seem more educated on the situation than the people who live in my town, and right now, we're hearing talk of more rioting when the verdict on Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, is announced. By this point, most...
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17 Nov 2014 - 7:11pm
Hey guys! Never want to go to the dentist again? Holistic healing has really opened my eyes up to all of the bs conspiracy's in the world (the dentist being one of them). We have all simply submitted to the idea that our teeth will eventually rot out of our heads even with routine dental care. We spend thousands to keep our teeth their finest. it never occurs to people that our teeth can actually RE-generate and heal themselves. I have had excellent teeth health mostly due to an exceptional...
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17 Nov 2014 - 2:04pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/17/who-is-ra-part-14-the-creation-of-reality-and-the-structure-of-the-dimensions-22/ Concluded from Part 1 According to Ra, when we perceive colors in our meditations, we perceive the boundary of our current dimension. "The nature of vibration is such that it may be seen as having mathematically straight or narrow steps. These steps may be seen as having boundaries. Within each boundary there are infinite...
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16 Nov 2014 - 3:11pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/16/who-is-ra-part-14-the-creation-of-reality-and-the-structure-of-the-dimensions-12/ Here we are, fresh at the beginning of Section 3 of the 'Law of One Study Guide' compiled by Bob Childers and David Wilcock. There are plenty of sources to read Ra's material from, the most notable of which is the website of LL Research themselves, but I prefer to use Childers' and Wilcock's study guide because they add their...
16 Nov 2014 - 2:54pm
http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/16/oversoul-teachings-youve-come-to-earth-on-a-sacred-mission/ (Note: I offer this message [and a few others that I'll offer in the coming days] on the heels of a decision to merge my channeling and writing into what I call 'meditative writing'. Combining my writing and channeling would mean I no longer produce 'Oversoul Teachings' messages, but I think it'll give the articles you read from me an added boost.) There are a few different types of entities one...
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16 Nov 2014 - 2:14pm
What an extraordinary species y'all are turning into. By the time I completed my fifth connection on Friday, my whole body was vibrating as if I had stepped on a vibrating pad for an hour and once stepping off, the vibration is still happening. I tried as hard as I could to pin myself down so I could complete my 6th connection, but the moment we connected, zoom baby zoom, I was vibrating all over again and I fell apart. I stayed in that vibrational space until the sun...
16 Nov 2014 - 8:01am
CATASTROPHE NO LONGER AN OPTION FOR PLANETARY ASCENSION Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra Brotherhood of Light Gracious Day to you all! It's been quite some time before I write again about the ascension event. Being an Initiate of the Brotherhood of Light, also called Order of Melchizedek, it has been one of my major tasks to spread the 'good news' about the planetary ascension, with no less than Archangel Metatron urging me in 2008 yet to do 'messenger task' alongside my teaching of the (Divine)...
16 Nov 2014 - 12:10am
Nothing will be allowed to stop the onward march of the Light until it embraces all aspects of your lives. By then the dark Ones will have been left behind, having determined their future by their previous actions. All souls will find themselves exactly where they are meant to be, both by their actions and intentions. No one can avoid the consequences of them, but mistakes will not necessarily prevent you from ascending. It is your intent that matters, and sometimes with the best of intentions...
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15 Nov 2014 - 10:05pm
In this place there is calm. There is a deeper connection to Mother Earth. Here you can especially experience her energy flow, her presence, sometimes, even her mood. There's more aliveness in this place. More everything I guess. I wish I had words to express how things are in this place I'm in. It's like something has been added, or upgraded, but I can't put my finger on what that something is. There's a new awareness of the flow. Not just my own personal flow, but the flow of everyone...
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14 Nov 2014 - 11:32pm
Wow, what a brighter, more colorful place the field is since the 11:11. I would have never thought that we could actually bring in more light, but we did, purer light maybe. The radiation is different than it ever has been before and much more alive... feel-able?? I am really running out of words to share the genuine depth of who you are, how you are, outwards. The color spectrums that showed up in every reading yesterday, beyond any color spectrum I have...
14 Nov 2014 - 2:39pm
http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/14/oversoul-teachings-contribute-to-your-ascension/ (Note: I offer this message [and a few others that I'll offer in the coming days] on the heels of a decision to merge my channeling and writing into what I call 'meditative writing'. Combining my writing and channeling would mean I no longer produce 'Oversoul Teachings' messages, but I think it'll give the articles you read from me an added boost.) We note that many seekers have trouble believing or...
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14 Nov 2014 - 12:31pm
Fathoming of depths previously unreachable occurs for all Gaia inhabitants as the Cosmic Waves increase in intensity and frequency. Alternatives diminish, primaries are at forefront. Hue-manity consciousness continues to rise; hu-manity consciousness follows. Points of entrance are not yet sensed by hu-manity, yet results are evident; Hue-manity is aware, and aligns with the direction of the entering energetics. Standards are raised, as Sacreds unveil.
14 Nov 2014 - 12:47am
Hi everyone, This is the dragon. Due to many reasons, you have a lot of processes in places for various things. Your systems have grown more complex and as a result, many things required just to try to spread your wings and be greater than you are have become burdensome and fraught with red tape. These things hold you back. It is very frustrating to a lot of you. The red tape protect the systems. Some are protections from the kinds of people that would abuse any situation to help themselves at...
13 Nov 2014 - 2:20pm
Hi everyone, This is the dragon. We have a light-hearted but still relevant message about the ascension. So, you have kids shows on your television that sometimes portrays people in very boring, un-dynamic ways. Better yet, in history you have monks and others, at least how they are portrayed in remembrance. Or how shamans carried on. Especially old souls can look at those examples and say, "We respect their choice to be an example of an enlightened human being". However, this was a life...
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13 Nov 2014 - 2:01pm
Love u All !!! Muahhhs!!! <3
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13 Nov 2014 - 2:00pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/13/who-is-ra-part-13-freewill-abridgment-and-the-mystery-of-infinity/ Previously, we learned about children with 'double bodies', which enable them to do and perceive things most wanderers or spiritual adults are unable to do. We learned that a lot of children possess deeper spiritual perceptions and capabilities, and they don't violate the law of freewill by using these abilities because most adults are...
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13 Nov 2014 - 1:47pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/13/the-energetic-intensity-of-synchronistic-timeframes-part-22/ Concluded from Part 1 Everyone's going through this ascension in unique ways, and while some seekers don't empower the idea that we're collectively evolving, the intensity of this timeframe and various other factors have convinced me that we are. I wholeheartedly believe we're experiencing an individual and collective ascension, and regardless of...
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13 Nov 2014 - 7:27am
We all have our higher up guidance They are here to guide and assist us Remember however... WE are THEIR focus Our human physical experience is what matters to them and our souls ultimately Channeling implies that the spirit consciousness comes from an outside source... It always comes from within Light and love <3
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12 Nov 2014 - 11:07pm
Today I had a remarkable experience of going into the Akashic Records with another dear friend... and together we discovered more of who we are and were. Lemurian Light Language came through for us too! I share what we experienced and saw in that it may remind others of that time and place, or trigger and activate their consciousness to remember unity. I am seeing my friend who is one with plants, she does something with them. Like they are her allies. She also is followed by animals like Snow...
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12 Nov 2014 - 11:06pm
Everything serves. Use your emotional guidance to sniff out what serves you personally and only you personally and leave the rest alone. Stay out of other peoples business. Don't complain about it, don't point it out, don't tell others or warn others about it, don't try to erase unwanted. Just find wanted and lock in. Focus. Unwanted will subside and fade from lack of your creative attention which always attracts more of what it's aimed at, no matter what side of what you're on. You keep saying...
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12 Nov 2014 - 4:35pm
I had an end of the world scenario dream last night. Coincidence? Let me explain... I get up out of bed and go outside to see the sky purple and orange with fire. Scanning my surroundings it appeared as if a bunch of meteors had hit and smoke was coming from the craters. Being at my boyfriends house, which is in the middle of nowhere, I was surprised to see people running around or away rather from whatever was terrorizing them. People were being sort of like shot with a lazor and would...
12 Nov 2014 - 2:00pm
(Note: I offer this message [and a few others I have on my computer, which I'll offer in the coming days] on the heels of a decision to merge my channeling and writing into what I call 'meditative writing'. I asked a few people who read my work for their perspective on this idea, and they seemed to support it. Basically, I want to combine my channeling and writing to produce even more articles than before, which'll be written with the inspiration and input of my higher self. I might write...
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12 Nov 2014 - 1:44pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/12/the-energetic-intensity-of-synchronistic-timeframes-part-12/ I'm writing this on the always intense 11/11, and I have to say that this timeframe's energy has been pretty strong. I don't know about any of you, but I've been going through a lot of interesting ups and downs that can only point to the immense intensity of the energy we're currently swimming through, and something tells me this intensity will...
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12 Nov 2014 - 12:30pm
,, Test for Echo ,, It is the lamp that illuminates the heart and dispels doubt and darkness. TRUTH (SATHYA)~ http://saidarshan.org/baba/docs/sathya.html -Writing your vision of Heaven on Earth gives the Universe a blueprint to work from.- ¿nara narayana the divinity that is you incarnate...
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12 Nov 2014 - 4:02am
Joining together 11 11 2014 we raise our vibration open to love and say ahhhhh
12 Nov 2014 - 1:47am
Hello to you, we greet you in kind; in the kindest of ways we meet you.. We meet you in the heart space and we ask you to relax there and listen to these words that we speak to you of… We are ever aligning with our joy and remembrance of who we are, as are you dear ones, as are you... This now moment is your most powerful moment as every moment is a doorway to awaken within form and to rejoice in your purity of being! Dear ones, each of you has a purity of being within; as you are connected and...
12 Nov 2014 - 1:35am
Dratzo! Many things on your world are now in the process of manifesting. Meetings are going on globally to formulate a new, highly transparent financial system. A very important part of these negotiations is the need to revalue and reset the global currency. Along with this is a requisite to return en mass to the gold standard. We are watching and overseeing these talks. The ancient families possess an enormous amount of formerly unaccounted for deposits of gold bullion. A great part of these...
11 Nov 2014 - 10:24pm
When the knower in me is set free, i know that i am free. . There are no words for this , truly. . I am and i was and i will be . of which only i am is part of this me. . . when ida and pingala are perfectly balanced, the mind ceases moving to and fro. . when all comes to rest, only i remain. no sound no sight just i. . . . Ascended Masters ascendedmasters.info November 11, 2014 Copyright 2013-2014...
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11 Nov 2014 - 7:28pm
God said my messages were WAY TOO LONG and being IGNORED by the humans and Indigos who have VERY SHORT attention spans! So I need HELP! I have prepared a Brief Version of the Warning that you can post on every media outlet, send to publications, make videos of, reblog…anything you can think of! We Must Reach as many as possible! *** Make This Viral! *** We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For! *** Share Share Share! *** ……………………………………………………………………………… We Are HERE! We Are AWAKE! It has BEGUN...
11 Nov 2014 - 7:22pm
"One Who Serves" channeled by James McConnell "Ashira" channeled by Dr. Susan Sammarco (Note: These messages were given during our weekly Prepare For Change Glendale, AZ group) "Ashira" Greetings, I am Ashira. It is our pleasure to be with you again today and to bring you a greater experience of the multidimensional worlds that you are existing in. And the more that you experience these through the guided creative meditations the more you will understand how to get there yourselves. As you...
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11 Nov 2014 - 7:11pm
Meditation in Unity Meditation in Unity This is really good to do outside though it can be done inside your home. 1. First, relax and close your eyes going into yourself. 2. Notice the life forms around you and objects too, whether through opening your eyes, hearing or feeling. 3. Connect to what you are seated on or lying on, such as the earth, a log, or a bed or a chair. Include yourself within the that as part of you. Extend your consciousness or your awareness to feel what the earth feels...
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11 Nov 2014 - 4:37pm
URGENT Message From God for the Truth Tellers, Light Warriors, and Indigos! You are in mortal danger! I am Talia Shekinah Elohim of The Powers of The God of Your Universe, and I am here with an URGENT Warning for all of my Beloved Truth Tellers, Light Warriors, and Indigos! If you are spiritually aware, you have been expecting me. You...We...were all told that there were spiritually advanced beings asleep among us that were unaware of their own identity for the most part and who would...
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11 Nov 2014 - 12:49pm
Instructions are given to all Cosmic Attendants and Cosmic Communications channels regarding pending planetary changes on the "mass" scale. Fetterances come loose as instructions are received, and all participants clarify in their messages to Hue-manity and hu-manity segments. Light channels clear. Light channelers clear. Gaia inhabitants clear, whether conscious of Higher Realms or not. Fascinations diminish...
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11 Nov 2014 - 9:31am
as a being of light... Dismiss all the stigmas... Stop behaving as you think you should... Remain positive but don't deny honest human emotions... The less we say the more we express... We chose to come here to LIVE A HUMAN LIFE. Ishtar and Horus <3
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11 Nov 2014 - 3:38am
There's something magical about just sitting in the sun. NOT sun gazing, or any kinda practice, but just being there with the sun. Soaking it in. It always feels like when I sit in the sun something sorta melts or floats away from me. Like an outer shell or something. I can feel it just dematerializing and drifting away from my physical body. Don't have a clue what that's about, or what it is that's melting away, but it's a very nice way to feel. There's a lightness of being. Like you're...
10 Nov 2014 - 7:38pm
I connected with my team the Holy Ones a couple of nights ago. It is becoming easier and easier to become one with them and be in each others presence. (Yay!) So I first of all challenged as I feel it is prudent to do, yet their energetic signature is so recognised now and they have saved my bacon and cared for me sooo much I felt sort of silly challenging. Yet I challenged " Do you come in Christ?" There was this pause... (as so often happens with dealing with Masters is they...
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10 Nov 2014 - 1:59pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/10/enlightenment-only-attained-by-the-diligent-few/ Enlightenment is a beautiful, sacred and revolutionary process of spiritual growth, and it isn't widely available to everyone. Only those who are willing to take a serious, discerning look at themselves and determine what needs shifted and transformed before they can open the doorway to enlightenment will do so, and as we'll learn here, most people don't...
10 Nov 2014 - 9:38am
KUMARA ENERGIES AID IN ASCENSION Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra On the 21st of December, Lord Ancient of Days--Logos of Earth--and His 3 Logoi Aides released energies in 2 points on Earth: Shamballah in Gobi area, and a point in the USA. The energies will be permeating all humans down to the cellular level. It will be up to individual Earth people or Terrans to recognize and feel the new energies, and use them to their own spiritual advantage. In September of 1934 yet, Ancient of Days or Sanat...
10 Nov 2014 - 12:12am
THE EXPLORER RACE A planetary consciousness: Zoosh Cannel: Robert Shapiro .............. Question: Have you been embodied on any other planet as an inhabitant? Zoosh: No, but I have been embodied as a planet twice. That is part of the reason I tend to have a larger view. I assure you that Mother Earth also has a world view, so I tend to relate more to things on that level. Question: Can you tell us about your experience as a planet? Zoosh: I was a planet on Orion that blew itself up...
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9 Nov 2014 - 11:06pm
Many tools and techniques exist to bring us into our spiritual knowing and into greater feeling of being connected to source. The message that I was receiving was that all of these wonderful tools are a pathways inside ourselves. The direct way is the be in your Sacred Heart. The meaning of that is to feel that space within you that is the center of you connected to all that is. Your heart is the nexus point with connections that are energetic extending out from it. Being within yourself...
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9 Nov 2014 - 8:24pm
The Ascended Masters have chosen this time to construct a vast dimensional portal in New Zealand. This portal was bought down to Earth by the Ascended Masters to anchor their energy in this dimension, so they can assist humanity and individuals in their ascension process in a closer way. They are here to help you ascend. Their website is here to assist you in becoming more aware of the sacred relationship the Ascended Masters have with each of you. We strive to demystify Ascension and to...
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9 Nov 2014 - 8:18pm
DEEPLY AWAKE: ENTANGLED By Kathy Vik "Coming Through" 11-9-14 www.kathyvik.com www.lightworkers.org/magartha www.deeplyawake.tumblr.com So long silence, a product of absence, made from adjusting, readjusting, adjusting again. I had the opportunity of talking with a beautiful person yesterday, and we talked very little of daily life, and when we did, it was in relation to the truth and mystery of who we are, what we are here to do, our interests and abilities and countenances, the things that...
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9 Nov 2014 - 2:58pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/09/spiritual-condemnation-and-the-new-age-maze-part-33/ Concluded from Part 2 Most seekers who criticize the 'new age' movement seem worried that it can cause others to give their power away instead of recognizing that the task of spiritual evolution is up to us. They're right to be worried about this in a sense, because some are more interested in waiting for channeled predictions to manifest than doing the...
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9 Nov 2014 - 2:52am
Finally!! I woke up with plenty of time to share. Since we have set our clocks back one hour my body decided to use it for sleep, lots of extra sleep. Geez! Anywayz, no time to complain about myself, I got lots of catching up to do. The very next day, after spirit saying now the cream of the earth is rising, don't you know that is exactly how I seen every single reading, like everyone is standing in a clearing of whipped cream (only thicker than whipped cream...
9 Nov 2014 - 12:03am
This is Saturday night Nov 8, a couple days after the full moon of Nov 6 and what is going on? I don't know about anyone else but this past two weeks has really messed with me in many ways, both good and bad and I like to think I'm relatively immune to these things by now. Wrong! The thing is that most of the things that have been hitting me have been personal and I have no way of knowing if they have really been global. So I have refrained from posting as some things are just too personal...
8 Nov 2014 - 5:22pm
SaLuSa 7 November 2014 There are many things happening within the levels of authority that control your day to day lives, and these are changes that are largely brought about by the ever changing vibrations. They are eventually going to lift you out of the lower ones that are no longer appropriate for the New Age that has now commenced. They must change or disappear from your level of existence that is experiencing a cleansing of all that is of the old energies. It brings about many changes...
8 Nov 2014 - 5:19pm
Dratzo! We arrive! Your surface realm is now in the throes of a final struggle between the dark cabal and the forces of the Light. This seemingly never-ending battle has gone on for decades and centuries. Way back in the final days of Rome, the Anunnaki swiftly made a smooth transition from emperors to kings. It used its abilities to sway and influence these new rulers and maintain a degree of incendiary combat throughout Europe. The same was done in Asia, the Americas and Africa. This turmoil...
8 Nov 2014 - 4:20pm
ONE: Greetings Beloved. Yes, it is I. Of course, I rarely speak in person, but today is a special time. And I want to tell you, when I say, "It is I," this is not the way I usually think of myself. I am, yes I am, the one they call "One," but I am also a group consciousness, an awareness of All That Is. I speak with a voice, but I have no voice. I speak with you everyday through your mind, through your feelings. Now, when I say I have no voice, I have not made myself known as a person because...
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8 Nov 2014 - 3:21pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/08/spiritual-condemnation-and-the-new-age-maze-part-23/ Continued from Part 1 Any belief system can cause us to give our power away, and beyond its more sensationalistic aspects, I don't think there's anything about the 'new age' movement that sets it apart from other belief systems or disempowers the seekers who resonate with it. Every belief system has empowered and disempowered its followers at times, and...
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8 Nov 2014 - 12:48pm
The ray of light beams from the source, this light is you. It splits itself when travelling through universes, dimensions and times. When we consiously experience ourselves in two bodies and are we become fully aware of the rules in oneness, we have an opportunity to observe ourselves and how it works in practise. It is leading us to realize the concept of self-love and how all love is self-love on its core. When I got this understanding it made me clear very soon the must have to do things;...
7 Nov 2014 - 10:59pm
The Sphinx speaks it is your ego that made the choice It is your ego that made the choice to incarnate, to experience and explore this world of wonders, madness, excitement, and so much more. More important the ego made the choice to explore the physical experience of the human body. The ego is not just part of the human it is a part of your whole being, it is the part making many decisions. As a human the ego has a limited view and decisions are based upon...
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7 Nov 2014 - 4:42pm
Stratification potentials reach maximum during the coming moments. Gaia collectives requiring assistance for trans-leveling have all required to complete this function. Particulates are coalescing at this time into a recognizable entity for Ascension. Hindrances are leaving the Gaia sphere continually, as conditions warrant. Prior timelines have collapsed, as the Higher Gaia timeline is strengthened and recognized. Unprecedences continue until finalization....
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7 Nov 2014 - 1:50pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/07/spiritual-condemnation-and-the-new-age-maze-part-13/ Recently, an article was posted by Era Denmark entitled 'The New Age Maze – Fantastic Beasts and How to Lose Them'. Even though it was very critical of a lot of 'new age' concepts that I and plenty of others have advocated, I was deeply intrigued by it. I'm always interested in finding out what other conscious individuals have to say about some of the...
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7 Nov 2014 - 4:40am
Hi its gerri ascension is happening since last months lunar and solar eclipses this full moon and attuning to it acsenion is a process i am finally home in islip ny thank you all for your prayers to bring me home getting settled feels great to be home happiness also lifts spirit to acsenion much love to you all love gerri
7 Nov 2014 - 3:53am
Your now moment has awakened inside you. Your heart light glows pure. Glows bright. Glows true. Trust it. Open to it with your thoughts. Your soul. Your intent. But a hopeful intention is sufficient. You needn't have full belief, a thing so difficult after a lifetime facing deception. Merely hopefully intend. Hold the desire to feel your light. Intend to allow it to open within you. Accept the process of allowance, however it feels to you. The presence of your light will carry you through. The...
7 Nov 2014 - 12:03am
November 2014 Archangel Michael – Learn to play a different genre of life experience Channeled by "Amaxoxo" (Ah Ma Ko Ko) Transcribed by "Brother Other" I am Arch Angel Micheal, The Angels gave music to Earth many eons ago. We view music as technology. It is neither good nor bad. Technology is the fusion of possibility with untapped potential. Music makes us feel all kinds of emotion. It lowers and raises our vibrations. We choose how much we let it affect us. We choose how many times to listen...
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6 Nov 2014 - 10:13pm
One would think with gaining an extra hour in the mornings, I would be up an extra hour early, oh hell no, two days in a row I woke up just before 7.... very late in my world!! What the heck is up with that. There is so much for me to share, but I do not have the adequate time to share it again today, so I am just going to share what I can until I run out writing time, starting with yesterday!! Just when we thought we got some free passes from the machine gun spitting sun...
6 Nov 2014 - 2:51pm
Thank You Zen Gardner :)!
6 Nov 2014 - 1:56pm
http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/06/oversoul-teachings-participate-in-your-conscious-revolution/ Aligning with the divine as much and as often as possible will help you find a calm and centered frame of mind when you could otherwise descend into anger or myriad other negative qualities that drag on your sense of wellbeing and make it harder to find the centered state of consciousness many of you desire. The next time you're presented with an opportunity to fall into anger, take note of how...
Love is Always the Answer - Susan Lei - Arcturian Transmissions to Our Inter-Galactic Emissaries, Part 4 Flashing into Lightbody.Story - 4 Nov 2014 - 9:24pmThere is a lower frequency of Earth that Gaia will "let go" as She releases her planetary body from the vast restrictions of the 3D Matrix. This Matrix was created during the demise and fall of Atlantis when Earth was in danger of total destruction. The 3D Matrix served like a "net" to catch Earth as it plummeted into lower and lower frequencies. Unfortunately, the net that rescued Earth also entrapped Her. Then, slowly, the lower frequency "net" absorbed into Gaia's planetary body and...
4 Nov 2014 - 6:00pm
Ashtar channeled by Dr. Susan Sammarco Sananda and One Who Serves channeled by James McConnell (Note: These messages were given during our weekly Prepare For Change group in Glendale, AZ) "Ashtar" Greetings. I am your brother, Ashtar. I have not sat with this group in some time because there have been so many others who have been eager to sit with you in this manner. You are so fond to me and I am happy to be with you again. There is so much excitement in all planes right at this moment and...
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4 Nov 2014 - 2:51pm
I fully understand now why spirit has kept my ability to peek at you, sketchy at best. Holy flipping headache batman. With each reading yesterday, my head was cracking open more and more and I tapped out with my 5th connection, the incoming light was so intense my skull bones hurt even. How exciting is that!! lol Well, it became exciting after the ibuprofen started working. Once again everyone showed up in my kitchen, but now, as I control my complaining (...
4 Nov 2014 - 1:41pm
http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/04/oversoul-teachings-youre-purifying-the-collective-consciousness/ Channeling, like many other things, is a form of art, and those of you who enjoy channeling the energies and impressions of various higher-dimensional souls are encouraged to embrace this practice and the greater spiritual energy that comes with it. In practicing channeling, you'll practice sustaining a very real and pure link to the higher realms and, specifically, your higher self or...
4 Nov 2014 - 10:37am
ALMIGHTY FATHER INTERVENES IN EARTH'S ASCENSION Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra Almighty Father, the Father-aspect of the One Universal Principle (God), has been directly intervening in the upward evolution of both Earth and the humans. That intervention began in 1974, which ended His non-interventionist policy in place since the beginnings of 2nd Phase Lemurians yet (c. 18.5 Million years BP). As a result of that direct intervention, core events that are catastrophic or cataclysmic didn't happen....
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4 Nov 2014 - 9:15am
Understanding multidimensional balance of your empathic ability along with understanding why delving into the forest of self is a blessing in disguise and understanding the emotional ourobourus within the idea of self as a zenith when you seen through the eyes of the inner alchemist within transpersonal state in your experience of bio-metaphysical being. A few occult secrets also shared. : ) By Goddess Of Light
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3 Nov 2014 - 7:35am
Awakening is primarily becoming aware of love. The understandings and confirmations on how love creates are shifting our experience of life to direction where we realize our influence to others. We are "returning home" in our understanding and it does not necessarily mean we leave the existing, it means we become aware the ever pervasive energy of love in everything. love T
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2 Nov 2014 - 4:04pm
Given everything that happened within the first few hours of awaking into November yesterday, I was chomping at the bit to get to the connections part and see how everything looks now. I hope everyone was able to feel the avalanche of love that just permeated everything. Even the energy of love seemed to contain a more energized energy to it, at least for me. I broke out my DDP Yoga again and renewed my vows with Diamond Dallas Page and lasted a whole flipping hour and...
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2 Nov 2014 - 3:32pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness - http://cultureofawareness.com/2014/11/02/channeling-and-prominent-lightworker-organizations/ (I wrote the following for the conclusion of the 119th issue of The Culture of Awareness Weekly Newsletter.) Since I posted my recent article, 'My Perspective on Kathryn May's Resignation from Channeling', I've received a lot of comments from seekers who've given their perspective on the issue of channeling. I've heard from seekers who support it...
2 Nov 2014 - 11:07am
Beloved Glorious I AM Presence, Light of my soul, may the Light of Cosmic Illumination, the Light of Cosmic Victory and Love be poured into the Earth from all available Sources, like the Light of a thousand suns to permeate the atmosphere of Earth, to saturate all Her people and Her many kingdoms. May all negativity, illusion, glamour and karma be transmuted by this Great Cosmic Light of God that never fails. May the Great Golden Age of enlightenment, love, peace, brotherhood and prosperity...
2 Nov 2014 - 7:27am
This gifted webinar contains deeply meaningful and activating information about the present average age of humanity, why it's so brief and how we can adjust it. We include a powerful activation to assist in removing the human expiration code, which we placed originally to allow for the Separation Age experience. We also discuss insights on the stages of the afterlife, "death" and how to best ensure you transition fully into the Source consciousness upon transition. Many layers to this...
2 Nov 2014 - 7:24am
Ascension Tools * Grateful Expansion * Jill Renee Feeler Author: Jill on August 12, 2014 0 Comments Print Print or Create Get a PDF version of this webpage PDF About Jill: Profile » Welcome to this month's Gifted webinar. In this month's gifted webinar we discuss the ability for all of us to expand beyond the linear progression that many still apply to even our spiritual growth, which is non-linear, quantum. Rather than an analytical approach to leaping from one state of...
2 Nov 2014 - 7:22am
Insights of an unfolding expansion of our Authentic Stargate, that exceeds the trajectory many felt from Dec 21 2012 Mayan Calendar activity. Inspiring, evolutionary messages in a non-religious yet deeply God-centered manner to expand consciousness, thrive and help us savor our human experience. Jill Renee Feeler is a published author, futurist, spiritual experiencer, alchemist, gifted intuitive and inspirational visionary for beings across the globe seek-ing personal re-union with their...
2 Nov 2014 - 7:13am
Hello! I love to offer a fresh perspective on things, often in a playful manner. I laugh with my team a lot as I realize things from a new angle. Something came up recently that I wanted to offer you, as you might smile (and expand) as well. With my work we receive a lot of questions. Questions come in all shapes and sizes. Sometimes I'm asked to provide a meaning for a certain physical experience someone was having (like a dream or a physical ailment, as examples). "What does it mean"...
Energetic Pulses of 5-7D Light dissolve all shadow appearances and clarify to Higher Awareness by ÉirePortBlog entry - 1 Nov 2014 - 8:27pmEnergetic Pulses of 5-7D Light dissolve all shadow appearances and clarify to Higher Awareness. Frantications are diminished, followed by dissolution. Extraneous energetics are cleared, first in individual Hue-Beings and hu-beings, followed by rapid collective clearance. All darkness is now dispelled. Paths of the Higher Life of Light are now fully illumined within all Gaia inhabitants. Focus on untenables is softened, then dissolved. ÉirePort | November 1, 2014 at 12:27
The White Light device after death (2) - Transition States of Consciousness, Hathor message through Tom KenyonStory - 1 Nov 2014 - 4:07pmTransition States of Consciousness A Hathor Planetary Message Through Tom Kenyon Definitions Chaotic Nodes are clusters of chaotic events. According to the Hathors, Earth has entered a Chaotic Node and, as a result, we can expect ever-increasing levels of chaos—including but not limited to earthquakes, volcanic activity, aberrant weather patterns, ecological distress, as well as economic, social and political turmoil. Transition States of Consciousness are what the Hathors call the in-between...
1 Nov 2014 - 4:54am
Hi, This is the dragon The Plaeidians have told my partner a long time back that he is sitting in the easy chair of defeat. They told him that when he reaches point of ultimate frustration, he will break free from it. We choose our partner to personalize this message. But in this reality, this message applies to every last one of you, with only a few exceptions. Lately, he has been experiencing what it feels like to break free from some restraints that the easy chair of defeat has provided him...
1 Nov 2014 - 2:12am
I have received this transmission from my Higher Self during the Avalanche portal. Forgive the sound quality as I recorded it live as it came. I dedicate it to YOU.
1 Nov 2014 - 2:05am
DOGMA OF THE WHITE LIGHT That which is Cosmic Awareness is now available for the purpose of this Rainbow-Phoenix channeling session. Please proceed. Will Berlinghof is the Interpreter for your messages, Joan Mills is the questioner and energizer. The Law of Light, the Law of Love and the Law of Unity have been invoked. Is there an opening message or any event you would like to discuss please at this time? Thank you. That this Awareness does indeed have an opening message. That It would choose...
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31 Oct 2014 - 1:40pm
Written by Wes Annac, The Culture of Awareness (I don't claim to be an expert on the chakras, but I've learned a little bit about them. I decided to open up and see what tips I could receive about keeping them healthy, and the words you'll read here are what resulted.) I'm sure most of you know about the seven chakras, and we're believed to have even more chakras beyond the basic seven that'll come online as we continue to raise our vibration. Chakras are literal etheric energy centers that...
31 Oct 2014 - 12:39pm
We will reiterate that nothing can change your destiny to leave the lower dimension behind, except that you lose your way and cannot lift up out of it. The opportunities to rise up are unlimited and if you are on that path you should already have made such progress, that you have established yourself in the level of vibrations that will see you safely through. You will get all the encouragement you need, and as your level of consciousness increases so you will achieve a greater understanding of...
31 Oct 2014 - 6:39am
GAIA ACTIVATED PLANETARY CHAKRAS, EARTH VIBES @DELTA LEVEL, ENABLED ASCENSION Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra Lady Gaia is a Logos (deity) who uses Earth as her very own body. Logos is highest degree of soul evolution (8th Degree Initiation). Gaia is among the Logoi (deities) being initiated to someday become a Co-Creator of physical realities or worlds. Brahma is Logos of Physical Universe, to whom all deities of physical worlds report to. Since 1987, year of Harmonic Convergence, Gaia has been...
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31 Oct 2014 - 2:29am
Here's a thought for you, remember when we were dinosaurs? Well, I don't either, but it occurred to me this morning that we probably were. I mean most of the souls incarnated here now have a really long history with our planet. Many of us have been 'by her side' since day one. I don't actually remember being a dinosaur, but I remember being elemental. Being a rock. Surely if we are here to experience everything this Universe has to offer we musta even been dinosaurs, right? Maybe the...
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31 Oct 2014 - 12:09am
A Total Reboot as We ALL Come Fully Online. Expanded and Extraordinary!! by Lisa Gawlas Well, we have now entered the final dressing room of this year, these last few days left in October. Lots of unplugging and replugging going on. Body energy dropping to nothing and yet for others, almost pinging off the walls. For me, yesterday was a drain, a complete drain of energy. But also, my hearing antenna was also in the proverbial garage,...


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text: G24 | pdf edition | Wednesday August 8 2012 Sport Downloaded 05:00 GMT London 2012: Chris Hoy and Laura Trott make it Britain's golden Games Scottish cyclist surpasses Sir Steve Redgrave in last Olympic race, while 20-year-old Trott bags second gold in velodrome Page 2 London 2012: Alistair and Jonny Brownlee take triathlon gold and bronze Alistair Brownlee won the gold medal in the men's triathlon with his younger brother Jonny taking bronze after a time penalty Page 3 London 2012 sees Britain bask in its most golden glow since 1908 A triumph of funding, management and performance is largely responsible for our stunning and extraordinary Olympic success Page 4 Taoufik Makhloufi Team GB's Carl Hester Olympics 2012: Brazil Eoin Morgan thrives wins Olympic gold determined to shed reach football final by for England Lions 24 hours after dressage of elitist beating South Korea against Australia A disqualification Page 5 image Page 7 Page 9 Page 11 Tiger Woods insists London 2012: Sally London 2012: Fred he can catch Jack Pearson's dream Evans edges out Custio Nicklaus in major comes true in 100m Clayton as Andrew victories Page 6 hurdles triumph Page 8 Selby falls Page 10 guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Registered in England and Wales. No. 908396. Registered office: PO Box 68164, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1P 2AP Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT German rider Maximilian Levy. The noise that greeted his success was immense even by the standards of the velodrome, London 2012: Chris Hoy and Laura Trott where support for British competitors has been at its most make it Britain's golden Games intense. So the track team left the premises having won seven gold Scottish cyclist surpasses Sir Steve Redgrave medals from their 10 events, exactly matching their total in in last Olympic race, while 20-year-old Trott Beijing even though cycling's international governing body had changed the rules in an attempt to reduce the chances of bags second gold in velodrome one nation dominating the competition. The officials removed Richard Williams events in which Britain was strong and restricted each country to one competitor per event in order to avoid Hoy and Kenny meeting in the sprint final, as they did in Beijing. It made no difference, except to Britain's total of lesser medals. This time there was only Pendleton's silver and a bronze for Ed Clancy in the men's omnium to put against the Beijing haul of three silvers and two bronze. But there is no longer any doubt that, to general bemusement within the sport, Britain has become the world's No 1 cycling nation. You know you're doing well at cycling when you beat the French, for whom it is a national sport. And you know you're doing really well when they start accusing you of cheating, as they did this week. After a series of defeats at the hands of Britain in recent days, their technical director, Isabelle Gautheron, muttered about the home team's aerodynamic disc Chris Hoy won his sixth gold medal to become Britain's most wheels, which she claimed were not the same as those used by successful Olympian. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images other riders. Maybe, she suggested, the discs hid some sort of Britain's all-conquering track cyclists did not have the honour speed-enhancing device, like a spring. of winning the gold medal that took the home team past the "The secret of our wheels," Brailsford retorted, "is that Beijing total of 19 on Tuesday. That went to the hitherto unsung they're round". His reply appeared to be taken seriously by dressage riders. But on their last day in the velodrome the French journalists, who immediately started wondering how cyclists did secure numbers 21 and 22, giving Britain the biggest the British technicians had discovered a way to make bicycle haul since the Games were first held in London – although, even wheels more round. with five days of competition to go, the 1908 total of 56 gold Other French observers noted the British attention to detail, medals is likely to remain out of reach. and the effectiveness with which the team's managers had There were starring roles for two riders at opposite ends of exploited their relatively generous financial resources. Some their careers: the 36-year-old Sir Chris Hoy, winning the sixth pointed to the low-necked skinsuits with more open necks, like gold of his career in the keirin to surpass the total amassed swimming gear, and to a new front-fork design, revealed on the by Sir Steve Redgrave, and the 20-year-old Laura Trott, who eve of the Games, too late for others to copy. bagged a second gold of the 2012 Games in the omnium. "They always have new stuff," the French sprinter Kevin The only disappointment came with the defeat of Victoria Sireau complained. "We get it later." Pendleton in the women's match sprint. The 31-year-old The gold rush in Beijing brought the cyclists to wider defending champion went into sporting retirement with a attention, and it came as the culmination of a plan devised 15 final defeat gu.com/p/39t5m at the hands of her old rival Anna years ago by Peter Keen, then British Cycling's performance Meares of Australia, after being deprived by the judges of a win director. Keen's strategy was refined by his successor, Dave by a thousandth of a second in the first race of the best-of-three Brailsford, who also set up Team Sky with the ambition of series when she was seen to have strayed outside the red line putting a British rider in the Tour de France winner's yellow which the leading rider must not cross in the closing stages. jersey within five years. This summer the nation celebrated as Meares won the second race convincingly to restrict a tearful Bradley Wiggins hit that target two years ahead of schedule. Pendleton to the silver medal. Add last year's world championship win for Mark Cavendish Hoy said farewell to the Olympic arena 12 years after his and various other successes under his aegis, and the 48-year- debut in Sydney, where he secured a silver medal in the old Brailsford – born in Derby, brought up in Wales, and with team sprint. A gold in Athens was followed by three more an undistinguished riding career of his own — has a claim to in Beijing, earning him a knighthood. Last Thursday he be called the most successful team manager in the history of was part of Britain's winning trio in the team sprint, but on British sport. Monday he could only watch from the sidelines – and tweet Unlike Keen, who guided the career of Chris Boardman, his congratulations – as his young friend and team mate Jason Brailsford is not a coach. He is a meticulous organiser who hires Kenny, selected ahead of him in the individual sprint, took the talented coaches and encourages them to think imaginatively, gold medal. searching for ideas from unrelated areas of sport and industry. Tuesday's keirin represented the lion's final roar, a victory It was Brailsford who, four years ago, first dropped the key taken in his classic style. With two of the six laps to go Hoy slid phrase "aggregation of marginal gains" into a conversation to the front of the field of half a dozen riders and produced with the Guardian's cycling correspondent, while attempting to an extra kick on the final bend to dismiss the challenge of the guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT explain the team's philosophy of making small improvements add up to a significant gain in performance. On Tuesday he could be heard patiently going through it again on breakfast London 2012: Alistair and Jonny TV, itemising some of the details to which the team pay special Brownlee take triathlon gold and bronze attention, such as the electrically heated "hot pants" that kept the leg muscles of Hoy and Pendleton warm between the races, • Alistair shreds field to win Olympic inspired by Formula One's tyre warmers. triathlon by 11 seconds Later he was to be seen in his usual position at the centre • Jonny Brownlee overcomes time penalty of the velodrome, the lights glinting off his shaved head as he swivelled constantly to watch his riders circulating around the to take bronze track. He was delighted by the success of Trott, who was born Robert Booth in Hyde Park in Harlow, 20 miles from the Olympic Park, and who set an example for her seniors to follow. Trott's rampaging head-to- head victory over Sarah Hammer in the 500m time trial gave her victory in the six-event omnium, cycling's equivalent of the heptathlon. To anyone under the impression that winning now comes easily to Britain's track cyclists, Pendleton's defeat provided a corrective. For a few seconds in her first race against Meares, who she beat in the Beijing final, track cycling became a contact sport as the two riders hurtled towards the finish line, elbow banging against elbow. The outcome meant that Pendleton was denied the third gold medal that would have made her Britain's most decorated female Olympian. Britain's Alistair Brownlee celebrates with the Union flag while Instead the first British female bike racer to pose for crossing the finish line to win the men's triathlon. Photograph: the covers of men's magazines and to exploit her looks in Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images advertisements for beauty products leaves a sport into which she was coaxed by an ambitious father and with which she Alistair Brownlee won Team GB's 19th gold medal of the always had an ambivalent relationship. London 2012 Games on Tuesday lunchtime, absolutely And so silence fell over the velodrome, which will not dominating a gruelling triathlon in Hyde Park. reopen for business until 2013. A curvaceous £93m masterpiece, The 24-year-old world champion won the three-stage event surely representing the best pound-for-pound value of in a time of 1hr 45min 25sec in front of huge crowds who packed the entire London Olympics project, it will be the home to the banks of the Serpentine and the fields of the royal park. generations of young riders inspired by what they have seen in His victory, yet another for a Yorkshire athlete gu.com/ the past week. Hoy and Pendleton may be gone, but theirs is a p/39gdk , brought Great Britain's gold haul for 2012 level with genuine legacy gu.com/p/39t67 . Beijing in 2008. Jonny Brownlee, Alistair's 22-year old brother, finished in third place to take bronze. He had to take a 15-second penalty * after the third lap of the run after mounting his bike a fraction too early after the 1.5km swim. He came out of the penalty 27 seconds behind the silver medallist, Spain's Javier Gómez, so it probably made no difference to the placings. Alistair Brownlee, considered the most dominant triathlete in the sport's 38-year history, crossed the line to huge cheers 11 From Beirut to Big Brother, seconds ahead of Gómez. Murdoch to Millionaire, As he entered the finishing line he picked up a Union flag and discuss the hot topics in the walked over the line to huge cheers. A big smile spread across his face and he lay on the floor to recover. media on not one, but two blogs Earlier this year his participation in the London Games Organ Grinder and Greenslade looked in doubt when he tore his achilles tendon and he ran only one major race this year. blogs.guardian.co.uk/ Gómez pushed Alistair Brownlee hard throughout and organgrinder/ stayed with the winner until the final lap, but the winner's race was masterful and aggressive. He was in the leading group from blogs.guardian.co.uk/ the moment the competitors turned around the first buoy in the greenslade/ 1.5km open water swim and set the pace, along with his brother and Team GB's third athlete, Stuart Hayes, in the 43km bike ride around Hyde Park and past Buckingham Palace. Hayes, not Britain's third-best triathlete, was selected to support the Brownlees as a "domestique" to some controversy, guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT but he played his part. The brothers started well in the swim At the transition into the 10km run the group stayed as the 56 competitors plunged into the chilly Serpentine. They together, but the Brownlees slipped on their running shoes chose pontoon positions at the opposite end to Gómez, the fast and set off in third and fourth places and they hit the front double world champion. immediately with Gómez tucked in behind them as they passed Gómez stormed ahead forming an arrow-head formation the Diana Memorial. with France's David Hauss and Laurent Vidal and Russia's By the third lap of four the leading three were 25 seconds Dmitry Polyanskiy, all in the top 10 qualifiers. Alistair and Jonny ahead of the next fastest runner, but then Jonny Brownlee Brownlee tucked into a separate group 50m north, and after the started to struggle with the pace his brother and Gómez were first turn around the yellow inflatable buoy, the toughest part setting. of the swim where the field bunched tightly and bruisingly, the Gómez versus Alistair Brownlee would be the gold medal Brownlees were just five metres off the pace swimming joint race. Then on the south shore of the Serpentine Alistair tried fifth, stroke for stroke alongside each other as they have done to stretch his lead over the Spaniard, but he would not allow so often in training. him to go and kept him within a couple of seconds. By the end, Jonny Brownlee climbed out of the Serpentine fourth behind Gómez faded and Brownlee could walk the final yards across the Slovakian Richard Varga who finished the swim in 16.56m, the line. ahead of Gómez and the Italian Alessandro Fabian. Alistair Brownlee was sixth, just eight seconds behind, and they ran quickly through the transition, peeling off their wet London 2012 sees Britain bask in its suits and running barefoot onto their bikes to which their shoes most golden glow since 1908 were already attached. Setting off at a searing pace down South Carriage Drive towards Hyde Park Corner, five of the world's best triathletes A triumph of funding, management and formed a breakaway group with Jonny Brownlee making the performance is largely responsible for pace first down Constitution Hill towards Buckingham Palace in our stunning and extraordinary Olympic front of heaving crowds. success With him were Gómez, Varga, Fabian and his brother Alistair. Barney Ronay The pace immediately appeared to take its toll as Canada's Simon Whitfield, the 2004 Olympic champion and silver medallist in Beijing, lost his footing on his bike and collided with the Costa Rican Leonardo Chacon, taking both men crashing down. By the second lap the leading group stretched to an 18-second lead over the chasing pack, which included the defending champion from Germany, Jan Frodeno, and Hayes. By the third lap as the field powered through the Wellington Arch, the gap was down to just five seconds, showing just how hard it is on this flat Olympic course to create a decisive lead on the bikes. When the groups converged, the Team GB strategy kicked in as Hayes immediately hit the front, driving the pace and Alistair Brownlee leant forward and urged him to go for it. Hayes Triathlete Alistair Brownlee won the gold medal that equalled stepped up the speed in the aggressive way the Brownlees the modern Olympic record. Photograph: Tom Jenkins planned to race. Do not adjust your medal table: this really is happening. But now Frodeno and other threats were back in a leading Beleaguered by security blather, troubled at times by its own group that numbered 22. As the Brownlees completed their unfathomable ticket regime, the London 2012 Olympic Games third lap, the British riders were first second and third, and has now delivered gloriously and unanswerably where it really slowed the pace slightly to conserve legs for the run while matters. remaining positioned to cover any breakaways. Gold medals on Tuesday afternoon in triathlon, dressage and Then news came through that Jonny had received a 15- – you again? – cycling, took Britain's medal table tally decisively second penalty for mounting his bike too early at the transition, past the 19 golds achieved in Beijing four years ago. It is the sparking tactical discussions among the Team GB athletes as best British gold medal tally at any Olympics since London's they led the race into Hyde Park Corner. White City Games in 1908, when deer shooting and the tug of It was becoming clear that the medals would be decided in war were among the medals on offer. To give a more telling the run, during which Jonny Brownlee would have to take the perspective on a vertiginous achievement, as recently as the penalty. As the leading group passed the main stadium on the 1996 Atlanta Games, Britain won just a single gold – in rowing. hour mark Alistair glided through in eighth pace, keeping the After a weekend of giddily received track and field success, pressure off the pedals, preserving his legs. the start of the Games' final week had already brought a reprise Then on the next lap, pulling up Constitution Hill, Alistair of that rather disorientating golden glow. Monday's equine Brownlee hammered the pedals down and made a breakaway and cycle-based exploits had left the gold tally just one short to sap his competitors legs ahead of the run and they duly of Beijing's intoxicatingly grand haul overnight. Such are followed him closing the gap in less than a minute. Team GB's current riches that the card for Tuesday's Olympic guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page 5 G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT competition almost felt like a race within a race, a sprint for the consigned to taking a silver medal in the final race of her career. wire to claim that historic 20th gold medal. As she bowed in tears to all sides of the Velodrome there was, In the event it was the triathlete Alistair Brownlee who however, the consolation of departing as arguably the greatest won the gold that equalled the modern record gu.com/p/39t38 British sportswoman ever, with her swag-bag of nine world , taking first place in Hyde Park ahead of his brother Johnny. championships and two Olympic gold medals. It was a fitting triumph at these Games, an event staged in the The obvious question, as Britain's sports fans peer, heart of London in front of 200,000 ticketed and unticketed replete, down the Olympic medal table, waving to the lowly spectators, and taking in one of the few open active green powerhouses of Germany and Australia, is how exactly did all spaces in the heart of this cramped and burdened, but still this happen? As ever, the main reason is money, combined with seethingly sport-centric city. Brownlee's was a hugely popular a perfect storm of youthful talent in the right disciplines. It is 19th gold after an awesome display of endurance athletics no coincidence that improvement began almost immediately by the 24-year-old Yorkshireman. Despite slowing slightly to after Lottery funding was first introduced into Olympic sport bask in the applause his time for the 10,000 metres was just a year after the single-gold Olympics of Atlanta. At the Sydney 80 seconds down on Mo Farah's gold-medal winning effort Games in 2000 Britain won 11 golds, as they did again in Athens in Stratford on Saturday. Mind you, Brownlee had just swum in 2004. Then came Beijing, on the back of £235m investment in 1500m and cycled a marathon. infrastructure and training over a four-year cycle. And then all eyes turned to the Velodrome at the Olympic The numbers have been similar here. Combined with the Park, that gorgeous piece of urban sporting design with its stunning results of London 2012 it amounts to a very public flipped-pancake roof and alluring coil of lacquered pine track. triumph of funding, management and performance. For now It is the most striking emblem of the reinvigoration of British the vexatious issues of legacy and the continuing sale of school Olympic sport. With newly enthroned two-wheel royalty sports fields can wait just a little bit. It has, after seven years of Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton both in action in the rather fraught Olympic preparation, been an extraordinarily afternoon there would surely be no more fitting stage for the golden six days. cracking of the 20-gold barrier. Except it didn't turn out like that. Instead, three miles south in the shadow of the Queen's house in Greenwich Park it was Taoufik Makhloufi wins Olympic gold the British dressage team who surged through to take the 24 hours after disqualification decisive gold. There are those who will suggest dressage, an affair of immaculately top-hatted sideways galloping, might not represent the most fitting symbol of an Olympic sporting • Algerian had been thrown out for not legacy. They might perhaps even opine that the likelihood trying in 800m that the streets of Britain will now be thronged with boys and • Makhloufi romps clear of the chasing girls parading their show-horses up and down the kerbs until pack to win 1500m teatime is remote. But this was a genuinely fine achievement, a Robert Kitson at the Olympic Stadium first ever gold in this most exacting of horse-based disciplines. It is a common misconception that equine sports are only for the posh, the landed and the horsey, but many of the best riders are everyday people. The gold-winning dressage team featured the daughter of a German billionaire, a former farmhand from Sark and a woman from Enfield. Greenwich has been perhaps the most picturesque venue at these Olympics, a park designed for Henry VIII to hunt deer. There was a sense of jubilee-ish pageantry to the celebrations afterwards, with Princess Anne, who really does seem to have been lucky with her ticket application at these Games, leading the cheers. It was then time for the astonishingly accomplished British cycling team to begin putting clear water between London 2012 and the best efforts of four years ago. By 5.40pm there was a 21st rendition of the new dual national anthem — God Save The Taoufik Makhloufi of Algeria wins gold in the men's 1500m. Queen followed by David Bowie's impossibly moving Heroes Photograph: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images – at the Velodrome as Laura Trott won gold in the Omnium. It would make a decent HM Bateman cartoon: The Man Who This was a brilliantly nerveless victory for Trott, who beat the Won Olympic Gold After Being Thrown Out For Not Trying. American Sarah Hammer in the final pursuit, a hugely popular Actually, it is a good story on all sorts of levels. Barely 24 hours second gold in London for the 20-year-old from Essex, who was after he was excluded from the Games for what many saw as a born with a collapsed lung, later diagnosed with asthma, and lack of moral fibre, Algeria's Taoufik Makhloufi won the men's who took up cycling on the advice of her doctor. 1500m title at an almost embarrassing canter. Idle perceptions Once again the world had turned a peculiar shade of British have rarely been confounded so swiftly and utterly. gold, the texture of Olympic sport so bizarrely altered at these Those Chinese badminton players chucked out for Games that it was almost a shock when Victoria Pendleton was deliberately underperforming last week will wonder afresh beaten by Australia's Anna Meares in the final of the women's whether the rules are being applied entirely evenly across the sprint shortly after Trott's medal ceremony. Pendleton was board. Unlike them, Makloufi was reprieved by the authorities guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT having initially been excluded from the Olympics for making missing out on the greatest day of his life because of an opaque only a cursory effort in Monday's 800m heat, raising all kinds of "rule" which seems open to question on a number of levels. Did conflicting questions. Usain Bolt try his hardest in the 200m heats? It mattered not The International Association of Athletics Federations had because he still finished first. If the cardinal sin is actively trying initially taken a dim view of the Algerian's 800m performance, not to win, where does that leave, say, "joke" bowling in cricket in which he jogged barely 150m before opting to drop out and to try to set up a declaration? wander back across the infield. "The referee considered he had The British sprint canoeist Richard Jefferies finished a not provided a bona fide effort and decided to exclude him from distant last in his 1000m single canoe semi-final on Monday, participation in all further events in the competition," said an admitting he was saving himself for his 200m C1 sprint later IAAF statement. this week. No one claimed that was disgraceful or demanded Locog, however, later released a statement confirming the his expulsion. Makhloufi, if we are being brutally honest, was disqualification had been revoked after a medical certificate simply attempting to improve his chances of winning the one was supplied by a local doctor suggesting he had a knee that really mattered to him. To say he has had the last laugh problem. Makhloufi had clearly not wanted to race in the 800m, would be an understatement. particularly after qualifying impressively for the 1,500m final. His judgment, which had looked distinctly suspect, suddenly appears sharper than anyone else's. Tiger Woods insists he can catch Jack He was certainly trying this time, going off fastest and Nicklaus in major victories muscling his way past fellow runners on two or three occasions to ensure he remained in the leading bunch. Then, with one lap to go, he took off like a bullet, laying waste the field from 200m • American without major win for four out to win comfortably in 3min 34.08sec. Leonel Manzano years of the United States won the silver in a time of 3:47.79, with • He hopes barren run can end in US PGA Morocco's Abdalaati Iguider taking bronze. The defending this weekend Olympic champion, Asbel Kiprop, was prominent in the early Ewan Murray at Kiawah Island stages but finished last after suffering a hamstring problem. Not surprisingly, the former double Olympic 1500m champion Seb Coe rightly described it as "a funny race". The rest of the field either got it tactically wrong or had been lulled into a false sense of security. "I'm really surprised as to why those guys let it run at such a slow pace when they knew that Makhloufi had such a strong finish," said Coe. "They played into his hands." And the knee problem? Let's just say it didn't look life- threatening. Not since the West Indian opener Gordon Greenidge, who used to develop a limp as a prelude to hitting the ball even harder than he did when fully fit, has an injury appeared to have such a positive effect on the supposed patient. Given he did not so much as rub it when he pulled out on Monday, it is a highly unusual medical case. "Every person Tiger Woods practises at Kiawah Island for this week's latest who wins a race forgets about his aches and pains," retorted major. Photograph: Mathieu Belanger/Reuters Makhloufi airily. "I was told that competing might be a bit He may be in the midst of preparations for the tournament dangerous for me. Being thrown out did not have a huge affect nicknamed "Glory's last shot" but Tiger Woods has insisted on my morale. Following the medical test it was proven I was time remains firmly on his side as he strives to match or better suffering from a knee injury and I was allowed to compete." Jack Nicklaus's record of 18 major titles. Back in the champion's birthplace, Souk Ahras, in the north Woods sits four adrift of Nicklaus in major wins and the of Algeria, they will not care about such technicalities. The 36-year-old is without a victory in one of golf's biggest events word "ahra" translates as lion, a reference to the Barbary lions since the 2008 US Open. The former world No1's quest to end which lurked in the neighbouring forests until their extinction that barren run continues at this week's US PGA Championship, in 1930. There is also a track record of 1500m success in the which begins in South Carolina on Thursday. country, Noureddine Morceli having also won gold in the same On Tuesday Woods made it clear he still has Nicklaus in his event in Atlanta in 1996. "Anyone would dream of following sights but he is prepared to take the long run at his ambition. "I Morceli," said his successor. "I'm very happy to have won and figure it's going to take a career," Woods said. "It's going to take all Algerians will be too." a long time. Jack didn't finish his run until he was 46, so if you Those raising eyebrows at his sharp improvement this year, go by that timetable, I have 10 more years. Four more majors is a during which he has shaved 2.5sec off his personal best, were lot but I've got plenty of time. With the training regimes that we also given short shrift, with a new coach and huge dedication have now and seeing other guys play well, you can get on the being cited as the crucial factors: "For seven months I have not right golf course and contend. We can play late in our careers seen my family. They've only been able to see me in TV. I've because of our training and also getting the right golf course. been working hard since I was 15." "There's so many guys with a chance to win. The margin is The fact remains, nevertheless, that he came close to getting smaller. The scores between the leader and the guy who guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT is tied 70th is sometimes 10 shots or less, which is amazing. It seems like that at every tour event, which wasn't always the case; that gap would be 14, 15 shots." Team GB's Carl Hester determined to Woods has won three times already this year on the PGA shed dressage of elitist image Tour and tied for third at last month's Open Championship and the American former world No1 believes he is making headway Rider from Sark believes Britain's Olympic towards securing victory in a major. "I was there at the US Open gold medal – its first ever – can take sport to after two days and I was right there with a chance at the Open," new level Woods recalled. "Things have progressed but, still, not winning a major championship doesn't feel very good. Stephen Moss "In the last couple of years, my game was not where it is at now. This year I have won three times and it has been a pretty good year. I've been there with a chance to win a few more. It's been totally different; physically my game is way different than what it was last year." Woods did concede that claiming majors is tougher now than a decade ago, when he was the holder of both the Masters and US Open. "There are more players with a chance now," he added. "The fields are much more deep than they used to be." In keeping with his long-term outlook, Woods reiterated his hopes of being part of a United States team at the 2016 Olympics. Golf will return to the Games in Rio. "I hopefully will have been able to qualify at that point in time," said Woods. "It'll be exciting to be able to represent our country like that, Carl Hester learned to ride on bareback donkey in Sark. 'My go down to Brazil and do something that hasn't been there parents aren't horsey – they can't stand horses, actully,' he in a long time. We would want to represent our country and, says. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA whatever country we are from, represent it well." The painting of a postbox in honour of Carl Hester's win, alongside Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin, in the team dressage at Greenwich Park on Tuesday is going to be a little more complicated than for other contestants. Hester comes from Sark in the Channel Islands, where the Royal Mail's writ does not run. But Guernsey Post, which is responsible for postal services on the island, has said it will follow the Royal Mail's lead and paint Sark's only postbox – currently blue – the appropriately celebratory colour. Hester's background is very unusual. He learned to ride on Sark, which has no cars, by riding on donkeys, and insists that his success gives the lie to the assertion that dressage is an inherently elitist sport. His argument is significant because, if dressage is to build a legacy from winning gold at Greenwich, it will need to recast its image. "My parents aren't horsey – they can't stand horses, actually," he said after receiving his medal, "so that makes it * even more ridiculous that I've ended up on this route. The three of us come from totally different backgrounds. It's amazing I learned to balance and ride on a bareback donkey; Charlotte came through the showing world [riding ponies in shows]; and Laura did everything across all the equestrian disciplines before she took up dressage." Compare and buy Hester and Dujardin come from unmoneyed backgrounds, but Bechtolsheimer is the German-born granddaughter of a Use our free independent multimillionaire who made his fortune in property, and her comparison services to switch father has made a huge investment in the sport. Nonetheless, suppliers and save money on Hester insisted it was hard work, not money that got him and his team-mates to the top. all your household bills. "I grew up on Sark, the most ridiculously small island," he guardian.co.uk/money/ said. "I left home at 16, said I wanted to go to England and do horses, and worked as a groom for many, many years. There's compareandbuy a story up here that any kid could aspire to. You have to have the right opportunities and you have to find your way, but the obvious answer is that hard work and dedication paid off for all guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT three of us." Hester believes the gold – Britain's first ever dressage medal after decades of domination by Germany and the Netherlands London 2012: Sally Pearson's dream – can take the sport in the UK to a new level. "It's shot it into comes true in 100m hurdles triumph a different league," he said. But the sport has work to do to shake off its moneyed, top-hatted image. Ann Romney's • Sally Pearson wins Australia's fourth gold ownership of the dressage horse Rafalca, which was eliminated of Games from the individual competition at Greenwich after posting • Defending champion Dawn Harper a disappointing score, has caused difficulties for her husband Mitt, the Republican presidential hopeful. beaten into second The Democrats have used the horse as a stick with which to Andy Bull at the Olympic Stadium beat him, forcing him to distance himself from his wife's hobby, and US comedians have had a field day with what is widely seen as a sport that enshrines wealth and privilege. Satirist Stephen Colbert mocked claims made by Rafalca's rider, Jan Ebeling, that dressage was not exclusively a sport for the well-heeled. "It's something you can do with a normal budget," said Colbert. "Yeah, it's really all about budgeting. You cut out a couple of lattes a week. By the end of the month, you've got yourself a $3m Dutch warmblood." Claire Shand of the British Equestrian Federation said dressage's reputation as the preserve of the wealthy was undeserved. "Dressage is accessible," she argued. "You don't have to throw yourself over massive fences, and you don't need a big, expensive horse to do it. Winning here will be amazing for Sally Pearson celebrates after winning the gold medal in the the sport." 100m hurdles. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images For an agonising moment no one knew who had won the women's 100m hurdles. On the other side of the world, millions of Australians leaned forward on the edge of their seats, waiting for the results to flash up on the screen. And at last they came: first, and the gold, to Sally Pearson, in an Olympic record of 12.35sec. It was only Australia's fourth gold of the Games. Pearson collapsed to the track, ecstatic. USA's Dawn Harper, the deposed champion, had the good grace to clap her hands in appreciation of her rival. It was Harper's dip for the line that caused that all that discomfort down under. She had been a yard behind Pearson coming off the final hurdle, but closed as they came up to the line. She dipped, Pearson did not, and it almost cost the Australian. The gap between them was just 0.02. "When I crossed the line I thought, 'Darn it, I think I may have got her'," Harper said, "and then when I saw her collapse to the ground I thought, 'Darn it' again, 'she's happy, so she must have won'." * Harper was a little less polite about her USA rival Lolo Jones, whose good looks and blunt words attract an awful lot of attention. "I feel like I kind of shut some people up," she said. " You got to talk about Dawn a little bit." Jones was back in fourth. Kellie Wells was third and, like Harper, she ran a personal best. Pearson came perilously close The Guardian digital edition to losing, which would have been a serious shock given that she Read the Guardian on the web had won 32 races in a row until she lost to Wells at Crystal Palace three weeks ago. That, she said, had been a welcome wake-up exactly the way it was printed. call. "It's been a dream of mine for 12 years since I watched With award-winning Guardian Cathy Freeman take gold in Sydney," Pearson said, still amazed at what she had just done. "I saw that, and I was like 'I want it'." photography accessible from Now she has it. anywhere in the world. One dream made, another dashed. That is how it goes at the Olympic Games. In the morning session Liu Xiang, the 2004 guardian.co.uk/digitaledition Olympic champion, crashed into the first hurdle of the men's 110m heats and tumbled to the track. It brought back sickening memories of the moment four years ago, when, billed as the guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT face of the Games, he withdrew from the event after taking his Ji Dong-won and Kim Hyun-sung, and should have led before place on the blocks. Then, the shock of it silenced the stadium Neymar, Oscar and Leandro found their imperious rhythm. and stunned a nation. This time, in a wonderful if eccentric Kim Hyun-sung had a back-post header hacked clear by display of grit, Xiang got back up, tucked his injured right leg up Sandro after a fine turn in the area by Nam Tae-hee and was underneath him, and hopped all the way to the finish. put through by a lovely chip from Ji. A brave header beyond Great Britain's Andy Turner helped him across the line. the Brazil goalkeeper, Gabriel, lacked the pace to cross the line "What Liu Xiang did today reflected the true Olympic spirit," and prompted an equally courageous effort by the Sunderland said Feng Shuyong, the performance director of the Chinese striker only for Thiago Silva to intervene. Ji began impressively team. "Winning is not so important, participation is what and was close to finding the top corner with an audacious drive matters." from 35 yards. Once Brazil had withstood the early pressure, however, they took complete control and South Korea wilted before the quality of the opposition attack. "We blew the early Olympics 2012: Brazil reach football chances and we tired," said their coach Hong Myung Bo, his final by beating South Korea side having played 120 minutes against Team GB on Saturday. Oscar, Chelsea's new £25m recruit, has shown a fine understanding with Neymar throughout the tournament and South Korea 0-3 Brazil the pair were involved in the majority of the chances that fell Andy Hunter at Old Trafford to Brazil from midway through the first half onwards. Leandro twice went close before Neymar found Oscar and, after an unchallenged run across the Korean area, he rolled a perfectly weighted pass into Romulo, who beat Lee Bum-young inside his near post too easily. In fairness to the keeper, he had injured a knee moments earlier when colliding with Leandro to block a poor back-pass. Ji shot inches over from another ambitious attempt on the stroke of half-time but there was no concerted response from South Korea and the tie was effectively ended when Leandro doubled Brazil's lead early in the second half. Neymar was the architect, playing an incisive one-two with Marcelo into the area, and though Brazil's left-back missed the cut-back it fell invitingly for the unmarked striker to tuck away. Leandro's second, Brazil's third, was a clinical touch of Brazil's Leandro Damiao, left, celebrates with Marcelo after improvisation into the bottom corner after Oscar and Neymar, scoring his first goal in their Olympic football semi-final of course, had weaved their way through the Korean defence against South Korea at Old Trafford. Photograph: Jon Super/AP once more. They ultimately progressed to Wembley with a Brazil have never won Olympic gold, a failing that pains a proud stroll. football nation and has prompted the team's coach, Mano Menezes, to label this tournament "The London Project", but * a glorious chance to break new ground awaits at Wembley on Saturday having swept aside South Korea in the semi-final. Menezes' side, inspired by the mesmerising Neymar, the polished Oscar and the potent Leandro Damião, cruised into Saturday's final against Mexico – 3-1 victors over Japan gu.com/ p/39t4e – with a performance that doubled as an emphatic riposte to accusations in the Brazilian media of not taking Eat right the Olympics seriously enough. Angered, they cancelled an open training session for on the eve of the semi-final. They Join the Guardian's health and also punished South Korea by taking their goal tally to 15 in dieting club, Eat Right and five matches and demonstrated they possess the pedigree to improve on the silver medals from Los Angeles in 1984 and we'll design you a personalised Seoul in 1988. healthy eating plan from just "It is 24 years since Brazil were last in the Olympic final and that shows it is not easy to get there," Menezes said. "We £2.99 a week. Membership have always had quality players but we have also faced a lot of includes shopping lists, menus, quality and it shows the merits of this team that it has reached the final. But it is only the final. There is one more step to go." expert advice and 24 hour Brazil arrived in the semi-final with a 100% record and their support to help you achieve forward line gelling perfectly, justification for taking umbrage your health and fitness goals. to criticism back home, but South Korea were not initially overawed by their opponents or the occasion. They took the guardian.co.uk/eatright game to the favourites, a decision justified by a vulnerable Brazilian defence and the movement of the Korean front pair of guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk Page 10 G24 Sport Wednesday August 8 2012 05:00 GMT The 18-year-old switch-hitter from Cienfuegos beat the Welsh No2 seed, 16-11, and will cause the promising young London 2012: Fred Evans edges out Irishman Michael Conlan all sorts of problems in the semi-finals Custio Clayton as Andrew Selby falls on Friday. Conlan, who squeezed past the busy Frenchman Nordine • Fortunate Fred Evans wins on countback Oubaali 22-18, probably benefited as much from the kind regard • Cuba's Robeisy Ramírez beats Andrew of the judges as Selby failed to do, and, not for the first time in this tournament, the scoring confounded a packed ExCeL Selby Arena. Kevin Mitchell at The ExCeL But Selby had no complaints about his defeat. "He was the better man on the day," he conceded. "I threw more combinations and was letting my shots go but he was just getting me before I got my hands up." He said he had not made his mind up about following his brother, Lee, into the professional ranks. "I'll see what Robert McCracken [the team's performance director] wants me to do. If he wants me to go to Brazil [in 2016] or he thinks there's more I can learn, I'll stay on." Ramírez, who resembles a young Floyd Mayweather Jr with his smooth movement and electric speed, said: "I knew the crowd would be hostile. I just had to prepare myself." Selby learnt plenty from a fighter who clearly is destined for stardom, and he might reflect on those moments when, after a succession of energetic flurries to head and body, he left himself Fred Evans, right, throws a punch at Custio Clayton in his open to the eye-catching assaults by the dazzling Cuban, Olympic quarter-final victory. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA especially in the second round, which went heavily against him. Fred Evans might well be the most entertaining character in this The expression "keep your hat on" ought to be written inside Great Britain boxing team but he toyed flippantly with fate to Conlan's headguard, because it caused the sixth seed no end of the point of near-disaster before squeaking into the semi-finals grief in his win over Oubaali. on a countback against the muscular Canadian welterweight Conlan did well to share the first round 5-5, and spent much Custio Clayton. of the three minutes trying to readjust his ill-fitting hat as the Cheek is one thing, complacency another. He will be allowed Frenchman picked him off with hooks. They were level at 12-12 no such luxury in Friday's semi-final against the Ukrainian No1 after two rounds and again the scoring was generous in Conlan's seed, Taras Shelestyuk, who also went through on a countback, favour. Only a frantic finish earned the Belfast boxer the verdict; putting out the distraught Frenchman Alexis Vastine after the he will need to perform with more composure against Ramírez. scores finished at 18-18. That was a genuinely close contest, Conlan said later: "I've beaten him three times before but whatever the histrionics afterwards of Vastine, who belted the he still hits hard. He is a come forward fighter and I had to push corner post before storming out of the arena, comforted by him back. It did work in the end. I had to be patient and keep prolonged booing from the alleged cogniscenti. my cool instead of losing it. The Welshman, meanwhile, should have danced his way "I thought I was behind when I came back to the corner to a comfortable victory after taking the first round 7-2 with a [after round one]. My coaches told me I had a second chance. nice mixture of composure and aggression, punishing Clayton's I was happy for that and I think it changed the fight. Maybe he clumsy lunges. Evans's concentration lapsed in the second and should have been up." he took a couple of unnecessary long right hands to the head as So, some night: Irish luck, French resignation, Cuban genius his rejuvenated opponent got back into the contest to trail 10-8. and surprises from the Welsh. The third was untidy and close, 6-4 in the Canadian's favour for a 14-14 score, readjusted after inspection of the complete scoring cards of all five judges, rather than the median three from each round. * "I was really confident after that first round and I kind of dropped off the pace a bit," Evans said. "That allowed him to come back into the game, which was disappointing. I thought I was one or two points ahead. "I think I'm in good enough form to make it a gold. I need to Fantasy League Classic up my game a bit for the next fight. He's the world champion. If Manage a squad of 16 players and a budget I do that, I don't see why not." There was no reprieve for Evans's fellow-Welshman Andrew of £75 million. £75,000 worth of prizes to Selby. be won in weekly, monthly and overall Reputations count for a lot in Olympic boxing, and no competitions. Beat your nearest and country is more revered than Cuba, whose teenage flyweight dearest in a friends league. prodigy Robeisy Ramírez showed enough of his considerable guardian.co.uk/fantasyleague talent to tip Selby out of the Olympics just short of a medal. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012 guardian.co.uk


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