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London 2012 Olympics: myth of harmony explodes with finger o...

There is precious little unity now. The carefully-nurtured myth of harmony within has exploded less than a week before tickets go on sale for the Games, and the International Olympic Committee has been summoned to clear up the mess. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Rebecca Adlington wants to swim 200m f...

The Mansfield swimmer, who won gold in the 400m and 800m freestyle in Beijing in 2008, insists that she lacks the raw speed to compete with the world’s best over the shorter distance, though her strength, technique and fighting spi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 and Mayor of London Unveil First Giant Olympic R...

Londoners and visitors travelling through St Pancras International station tonight witnessed the spectacular unveiling of the first set of giant Olympic Rings, marking the first step in using the Olympic symbols on iconic landmarks to tr [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

24-hour Olympic Tube service mooted

A working party has been set up to investigate running Tube services for 24 hours a day during the 2012 London Olympics. Union sources said they expect a battle over pay rates for round-the-clock working by thousands of London Undergroun [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: British Olympic Association to use mer...

At the 2010 Vancouver Games the Canadians had hugely popular red mittens; the US team in 2006 at the Salt Lake Olympics sold a must-have beret. British officials say they have ruled out umbrellas, wellingtons and tweed as they consider t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Looking forward to London Olympics

So, it’s now been over a year since the Vancouver 2010 Olympics finished. With all kinds of medal anniversaries being celebrated over the past couple of weeks, the reminiscing is just about over and it’s on to London 2012. [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympic torch designers announced

The studio will also create the celebration cauldrons to be used when the Torch Relay stops for lunchtime and evening celebrations, Locog said. The Olympic Flame will arrive in the UK from Greece on Friday 18 May, 2012. During the 70-day [...]

Posted On : Mar, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Iran objects to 2012 London Games' logo

National Olympic Committee of Iran sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in opposition to the logo of 2012 London Olympic Games. The letter calls for designing a new logo and confronting the symbol's designers. [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympics 2012: Ready? Get Set! Go

The first venue – the Lee Valley White Water Centre – was opened by the Princess Royal just before Christmas and others will shortly follow. As I wrote this, contractors were putting the finishing touches to the new Velodrome [...]

Posted On : Feb, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics jobs website goes live

Tens of thousands of posts will be on offer, ranging from catering and cleaning to customer services and technical roles, from March. Those registered on the Jobs for the Games website will be alerted as soon as relevant jobs become avai [...]

Posted On : Feb, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Aquatics centre was over budget from t...

In the light of a National Audit Office report warning that the arena is likely to be over budget and late, and dismay at how the Zaha Hadid design has been compromised by two ‘wings’ of temporary seating, The Daily Telegraph [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics 2012: velodrome's official unveiling exempli...

Seemingly at the blink of an eye it has risen, only yesterday it seems they were discussing roof options, capacities and the correct angle of those scary banks. And yet now it is finished, good to go and a glorious sight to behold. Alrea [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympics: London 2012 to have strawberries and cream factor

The London 2012 Olympics will have the feel of an English summer event, organisers said Thursday, bringing the strawberries and cream flavour and the open-air festival spirit to the Games. The team designing the venues said the atmospher [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Mo Farah to relocate to America to giv...

The 26 year-old is moving to Portland, Oregon, with the blessing of UK Athletics to be coached full-time by Alberto Salazar, the American long-distance guru who has helped transform the fortunes of US endurance running on the global stag [...]