Usain Bolt’s quick to tell fans he’ll be lightning fast again
Sprinter is hoping to shine in Italy on Thursday night despite below-par showing last week.
Jessica Ennis' rival warns of home Games pressure
Jessica Ennis' Olympic rival Tatyana Chernova has warned the British favourite she still faces a mighty task to claim gold in London despite her emphatic heptathlon victory in Gotzis at the weekend.
What we really think about the London Olympic Games
It is now less than two months before the Games takes over our city, but what do Londoners really think about it?
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Today the Team GB shooting squad will be announced. All eyes will be on Richard Faulds, the Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medallist who failed to make the team for the World Championships in Munich.
On the record: Jessica Ennis
Sport: Athletics (heptathlon).
London Olympics 2012: Didier Drogba mobbed as he takes his turn with the Olympic flame
Thousands of fans mobbed Chelsea star Didier Drogba as he carried the Olympic flame through Swindon today.
Coach defends six-pack Jessica Ennis after top Olympic boss calls her fat
Jessica Ennis is the poster girl for the sporting hopes of a nation — as well as for her incredible physique.
London 2012 Olympics: Police told to cheer up and smile for Games
London's bobbies are being told to cheer up and smile for the Olympic Games this summer.
London 2012 Olympics: Ukrainian official offered to sell 100 Games tickets to reporter for cash
A senior Olympic official has offered to sell thousands of pounds worth of tickets to the London 2012 games for cash.
Video: Will-i-am carries the Olympic flame... and posts on Twitter while he does it
The Voice judge Will.i.am carried the Olympic flame in Somerset in front of thousands of fans.
I carried the Olympic flame
Miranda Bryant on how carrying the torch made her feel like a star.
On the beach for a volleyball challenge
Olympic challenge: I am in shorts and a T-shirt with my bare feet covered in what feels like refrigerated sand.
Paula Radcliffe: A supreme athlete displaying true grit
Despite her marathon failure, the exhausted runner insisted on entering the 10,000 metres, says Steve Redgrave.
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London 2012 Olympics: 84 giant mascots to greet Games tourists
Scores of giant Olympic mascots will be stationed across London as part of a £32 million makeover in the run-up to the Games.
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Usain Bolt’s quick to tell fans he’ll be lightning fast again
Sprinter is hoping to shine in Italy on Thursday night despite below-par showing last week
Blood in the water: the moment it went horribly wrong for Greg Louganis
He was hailed as the greatest ever diver - then Greg Louganis gashed his head and proved, says Steve Redgrave, that he was mortal after all...
Gebrselassie’s bid for 2012 falls short
Former 10,000metres world record holder Haile Gebrselassie has failed to qualify for the London Olympics.
Denise Lewis: Jessica Ennis can follow me to Olympic glory
Jessica Ennis has been backed to claim Olympic heptathlon glory by Britain’s golden girl at the Millennium Games.
DAVID WEIR: It felt like an age before someone came to help after crash No3
Hitting the track at 20mph hurts and it’s amazing that there aren’t more accidents.
Joe Thomas is the support act for Usain Bolt who may rock the world one day
800m Joe Thomas is the antithesis of the modern-day athlete, which is hardly surprising as it was musicians rather than runners that he aspired to follow.
OLYMPIC DIARY: Chick flick’s set to run and run
The Olympics are set to hit the big screen this summer in the form of the film Fast Girls.
London 2012 Olympics: How to feed the 80,000
Staving off the hunger pangs of a stadium full of spectators is an Olympian task in itself - and that’s on top of all the athletes, officials and dignitaries. Ben Bryant looks at what will be on offer for the hungry multitudes
London 2012 Olympics: Are memories made of these?
Whatever the size of your wallet there’s all manner of merchandise to commemorate the Games. Nick Curtis went window shopping
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Cisco House set up to show role of technology and science in changing world
Edwards fears Idowu can't win
Triple jump record holder Jonathan Edwards expects Phillips Idowu to be upstaged in his bid for Olympic gold.
London 2012 Olympics: jobs bonanza boosts school-leavers and unemployed
More than 12,000 Londoners have been offered jobs at the Games this summer, it was announced today.
A poor start cost me at Usain Bolt’s meeting but I have still enjoyed a degree of success
Tiffany Porter: This is the time of season I love. I revel in competition and can’t get enough of it.
Olympic milestones: Nadia’s perfect ten
Steve Redgrave: The only thing Nadia Comaneci and I have in common is that we were both 14 in 1976.
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Tickets and torches will dominate the Olympic news agenda this week.
On the record: Mhairi Spence, Modern Pentathlon
Four British girls were vying for just two spots in the Olympic team for London 2012 but Spence sealed her place at the Games in some style.
Clash of the titans - Team GB's toughest square-ups
Jessica Ennis and Sir Chris Hoy are among the biggest names in Team GB but who are their rivals?
Olympic torch wins its very own medal
Inspirational 2012 London Games torch wins design of the year award for Shoreditch-based duo.
Striking gold may not be enough for Tyson Gay
Exclusive: The American begins interviews much as he does 100m sprints.
How London plans to welcome the world
Millions of visitors, officials and athletes travelling to London from overseas for this summer’s Olympics will arrive via Heathrow.
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I'm joining Chelsea, claims Eden Hazard
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British woman Lindsay Sandiford facing Bali death penalty for drug smuggling is mother of violent robber who carried out raids in London
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EXCLUSIVE: 'I'll keep going until Blair's taken down', says David Lawley-Wakelin, intruder who burst into Leveson Inquiry
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British housewife facing FIRING SQUAD over Bali drugs smuggling charge was 'neighbour from hell'
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They attacked "like a pack" raining fists on a defenceless legal secretary. Yesterday they walked free from court. No wonder their victim says she has been denied justice.
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Mayor demands report from Transport for London into Jubilee Line nightmare that left hundreds of commuters trapped for hours underground
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Video: Intruder bursts into Leveson Inquiry to brand Tony Blair a war criminal
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Baroness Warsi calls in Lords watchdog to clear name over expenses
Drum'n'bass pioneer Goldie creates ‘rose’ portrait of the Queen
Chelsea close in on £62m swoop for Eden Hazard and Hulk
Video: South east London factory fire - 'Air raid siren' wakes Greenwich residents
The London best: Yoga classes
Man v Woman v Food: the big burger challenge
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