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London 2012 Olympics: Indian Olympic boycott ruled out

The IOA executive board will urge its members to authorise a strongly worded demand to the International Olympic Committee seeking Dow Chemical's removal as a sponsor of the London Olympics because of the company's ownership of Un [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Britain’s No 1 archer Larry Godfrey's ...

“It’d be awesome, wouldn’t it?” he enthuses. “Take a couple of targets over, let them have a go. I’d be out there with the guys, taking photographs, having the media around. I don’t know if it&rsq [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Gabon lead Africa's 2012 London Olympic challenge

That is because the continent's record at the Olympic football tournament is a good one. Nigeria and Cameroon have both won gold - Nigeria also took silver in Beijing - and Ghana have been bronze medalists. African teams could make up [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics chief defends budget hike

London 2012 Olympics supremo Sebastian Coe has defended a controversial budget hike for the Games' opening and closing ceremonies, saying it will make for the "largest piece of television ever". The British government last w [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Sport England to miss legacy target as...

Eight months from the start of the Olympics, new figures released by Sport England show that just 111,000 more people have become involved in sport since 2007, just 11 per cent of the target they have been pursuing for the last four years [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Locog under the spotlight as doubts ab...

Thanks to the National Audit Office, which this week predicted a very real risk that more public money will be required, we know just how hard. The NAO is paid to be pessimistic about public spending. Even allowing for a glass-half-e [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: Olympia ready for Olympian early skirm...

If you didn’t get a ticket for show jumping at London 2012, the London International Horse Show at Olympia (December 13-19) offers one of only two possible opportunities before Greenwich to see most of the main contender [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics could help Chancellor over a hurdle

The Autumn Statement made for gloomy reading for the British economy. The country, it was revealed, faces six more years of austerity as it attempts to rebalance the books. The Chancellor's attempts to cut the deficit have been hinder [...]

Posted On : Dec, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics: Class of 2012

I wasn't aware that Arsène Wenger isn't in favour of his players participating at the Olympics but for me it's in my home country so it would be a great opportunity to be involved. Some athletes said football shouldn [...]

Posted On : Dec, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: TfL boss tells athletes to 'wake up ea...

Hendy has limited the opening of the Olympic Route Network to just two days before the Games' opening ceremony on July 27, meaning athletes, officials, sponsors and broadcasters will have to negotiate London's transport system wit [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: 1.5m football tickets go on sale

The huge demand for tickets this morning resulted in the top matches being sold out within an hour. But some customers were frustrated that they couldn't buy the football tickets because the computer system kept slowing and occasiona [...]

Posted On : Nov, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

2012 London Olympic Qualifiers Dream Team vows to fight back

Nigeria’s Dream Team have vowed to bounce back in the 2012 Olympic qualifiers against Senegal after they lost their opening game to hosts Morocco. Tuesday’s late night match-up is a must-win for both teams after Senegal also l [...]

Posted On : Nov, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

London Olympics 2012: Indians threaten to pull out

Indian athletes may pull out of the next year’s London Olympics 2012 as they have raised objection over the Dow Chemical Company being a part of the next year’s Games. Indian athletes protest at the International Olympic Commi [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

London 2012 Olympics: IOC calls on Indian Olympic Associatio...

This comes as the former Minister for Sport and Locog board member Tessa Jowell called for Dow Chemicals to withdraw its £7 million sponsorship of the London Olympic stadium wrap because it "was inappropriate". Telegr [...]