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London 2012 Olympics - a once in a lifetime opportunity for ...

The London 2012 Olympics will be a prime opportunity for travel, hospitality and retail companies to engage with a variety of new customers from all over the world. London is a central and more accessible location for the Olympic Games an [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympic watch: Phillips edging closer to spot at...

Zara Phillips is slowly but surely putting herself back in contention for a place in next year’s Games a year after retiring her world title-winning horse Toytown. At the end of a week of media storm over her husband Mike Tinda [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Gordon the tramp's bid to carry the Olympic flame gets surge...

The bid to get a popular tramp to carry the Olympic torch is on track after a staggering 18,000 members joined the campaign - and even had T-shirts printed. Supertramp Gordon Roberts, 82, from Bournemouth, Dorset, has been nominated as an [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012: BBC to launch temporary radio station

The plans, which include 1,000 hours of live online video coverage which will not be shown on TV, were approved by the BBC Trust on Monday. New digital station Five Live Olympics Extra will be in addition to Five Live and 5 [...]

Posted On : Aug, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012: Olympics inspires community sport projects

Short-listed torchbearers are being notified in August if they could be picked to carry the flame in Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor in May. And projects inspired by the games' ethos are being finalised, including opportun [...]

Posted On : Jul, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: man arrested by police in online ticke...

The arrest, carried out under the London Olympic and Paralympic Games Act of 2006, was made at the man's home in Brent, north-west London on Monday. Police were made aware of this operation after London 2012 organisers passed on infor [...]

Posted On : Jun, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Olympics 2012 ponders allowing rousing music at Wimbledon

Its historic, manicured grounds are more accustomed to the sound of rippling applause and enthusiastic, if decorous, shouts of "Come on Andy!" But on 28 July next year, when the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club beco [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

London olympics 2012: China plan ping pong charm offensive

Normally only the squeaking of sneakers or an occasional short, sharp roar provide any acoustic backdrop as China’s table tennis “invincibles” relentlessly power their way to gold at the Olympics and world championships. [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: fraudsters posing as fake builders sto...

One of the men trying to launder the stolen money, Ansmana Kamara, 31, was jailed for 3½ years on Monday at Southwark Crown Court after pleading guilty to a variety of fraud charges. The ODA, which is in charge of more than £ [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Maya Podesta targets the London Olympics 2012

Youth is such an exhilarating phase of life. For although at this tender age one could lack knowledge, practice, skill and expertise such constraints are outshined by youngsters natural outlook which is gifted with a great spirit of adve [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: BOA hardens stance in preparation for ...

The BOA, which is arguing that its cut of any surplus from the London Games should not include any Paralympic costs, has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to rule on the matter after the International Olympic Committee found again [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

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: 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 [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics 2012: Tottenham and West Ham clash, as Karre...

The images, which show Tottenham’s 60,000-seat ground surrounded by a number of new retail buildings and a large community space, were made public as West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady described the Spurs plan to rip out the Olymp [...]