JULY 29 - A NEW website has been created to celebrate the anniversary of the 1948 Olympics, the last time London staged the Games and which opened on this day 60 years ago.

 

You will be able to read a report on all the major events exactly 60 years after they were held.

 

The medal table will be updated day by day and you can read all about the venues and the programme on the website, just like you would be able to if the 1948 Games were held with 21st century communications technology available.

 

The idea is that of Tom Van Aken a lecturer at the University of Ghent in Belgium.

 

Previously he worked as a sports journalist and was the first Belgian online journalist during the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

 

Four years later he was a researcher for the Flemish public service VRT during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

 

He is also a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH).

 

Van Aken said: "On this website these Olympics will be brought back to life.

 

"From the opening ceremony on July 29 through the closing ceremony on August 14 visitors can experience the games day-by-day.

 

"You can read a report on the basketball match between Brazil and Mexico for the bronze medal or a report from the Modern Pentathlon won by William Grut.

 

"Also the medal table will be updated day by day and you can read all about the venues and the programme on the website, just like you would be able to if the 1948 Games were held in 2008."

 

To visit the site go to www.london1948.org.