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London students to test stadium for Olympic Games

Britain's leading student athletes will be the first to use the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium in a rehearsal for the 2012 Games  Comments 
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£10m pyramid-selling scheme to bankroll Team GB for 2012

Olympic chiefs have embarked on a £10 million pyramid-selling scheme to help fund the British team in 2012  Comments 
BMW

BMW signs £40m deal to put the drive into London Games

BMW defied the global slump in the prestige car market by announcing a £40 million-plus deal to sponsor the London Olympics  Comments 

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2012 Olympics ad boss: I wouldn't pick that logo

Controversy over the Olympic logo has been reignited after the advertising agency chosen to promote the Games distanced itself from the design  Comments 
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£100m bill to run empty arenas in Games gap year

Taxpayers face a bill of £100million for Olympic venues that will remain empty for up to a year before the Games  Comments 


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'Digital cloud' of inflatable plastic bubbles above London

Tower of bubbles floated for Olympics

Cloud of inflatable plastic bubbles could float above London’s skyline as part of a new Olympic monument  Comments 
Aquatics centre roof

Watershed for 2012 swimmers as aquatics centre gets new roof

Work on the £300million Olympic aquatics centre - the architectural gem of the 2012 Games - reached a major milestone with the completion of the stingray-shaped roof  Comments 

Olympic Park’s first completed building

First venue of £6bn Olympic Park is finished: a tin shed

It may not win any architectural prizes but a lime-green building made of old shipping containers has become the first London 2012 Olympic Park venue to be completed  Comments 
Thames at Windsor

2012 Games security may close Thames at Windsor

Stretch of the Thames may be closed to boats during the 2012 Games  Comments 

Gary Holmes

Olympics IT chief in N-word row accused of sexist abuse

Manager at the Olympic Delivery Authority resigned amid allegations of racist and sexist abuse of colleagues  Comments 
Shahid Malik

Games' Legacy minister 'is failing to make voice heard'

As minister for Olympic legacy, Shahid Malik's onerous task is to help deliver the jobs, homes and regeneration the Government promised as a benefit to Londoners of hosting the 2012 Games  Comments 

Money

2012 Olympics budget 'now £12billion'

Campaigners demand 'full transparency' on Olympic finances after it was claimed that the budget for the 2012 Games has risen to £12billion  Comments 
People braving the high winds and rain on the Millennium Bridge at the weekend

Forecasters for 2012 Games try to beat vagaries of our weather

Olympics chiefs are determined that they will not to be beaten by the British weather and are appointing a team of expert forecasters to minimise disruption to the 2012 Games  Comments 

 Dame Tanni Grey Thompson in Jordan

2012 project to help deprived children across world play sport

More than a million children in the Middle East will get free sports lessons as part of the London 2012 charity mission, it has emerged  Comments 
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Plan to Spice up the Olympics

The Spice Girls could reunite to perform at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony  Comments 

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Recession slashes £3bn off Olympics ‘dividend’

Recession wipes £3 billion off the value of the Olympic economic 'dividend', as games gallery launches at NPG  Comments 
Vicky Olaoye

From sports shop to the Olympics: London's version of Cool Runnings

A 25-year-old former sports shop worker from Islington has been fast-tracked to compete for Britain at the Winter Olympics in the bob skeleton  Comments 

Olympic stadium taking shape

Cricket to be an Olympic winner with 2012 legacy

Cricket chiefs are in talks with Boris Johnson about a move to the Olympic stadium after the 2012 Games  Comments 
Wembley Arena

Mayor's Wembley Arena venue 'is too remote'

Boris Johnson's cost-cutting proposal to use Wembley Arena for the London Olympics has run into trouble after international sports chiefs complained the venue was too remote  Comments 

Athletes

All Olympic athletes face bedroom raids in anti-doping crackdown

Athletes competing at the London Olympics face regular bedroom raids by anti-doping officials, ministers said  Comments 
Phillips Idowu

The stars hoping to pave London’s streets with gold

As the countdown begins tomorrow to the London Olympics in 2012, these British sportsmen and women are already on the road to glory  Comments 

Londoners celebrate winning the 2012 Olympics

LDA will shelve climate work after ‘losing’ £161m from Olympics budget

Boris Johnson denies key climate change schemes were at risk after his regeneration body acquired a massive hole in its budget after getting its Olympics sums wrong  Comments 
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger

Ageing British rock stars to take centre stage in 2012 celebrations

Free concerts in Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace by stars such as the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Led Zeppelin could form part of the cultural celebrations for the 2012 Olympics  Comments 

Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola's £20m Games money at risk from other sponsor deals

Coca-Cola is at war with London Olympics chiefs over proposals for a £20million sponsorship deal with a major British supermarket chain.  Comments 
Olympic Stadium

Boris offers deal on 2012 venues

Boris Johnson proposes a last-minute compromise to save £20million on the sports venues for the London Olympics  Comments 

Money

£1.8 million paid in bonuses to Olympic venue managers

Managers at the Olympic Delivery Authority are being handed bumper bonuses of more than £18,000 a year  Comments 
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Sport fans to get best 2012 seats so stands stay full

Sports fanatics will get priority for front row seats at the 2012 Games, with Olympics chiefs wanting a good atmosphere and to avoid the embarrassment of empty stadiums  Comments 

Dame Kelly Holmes

Dame Kelly to help Cameron with 2012 legacy

Tory leader David Cameron has scored a major coup by signing up Dame Kelly Holmes to help deliver a sports legacy from the Olympics  Comments 
Olympics East End

East End ‘must wait a decade for 2012 legacy’

Londoners will not see the regeneration benefits of the Olympic Park for another decade, the new 2012 'legacy czar' warned  Comments 

Londoners celebrate winning the 2012 Olympics

Public asked to sponsor athletes by Olympics chiefs

Taxpayers will be asked to do their patriotic duty by sponsoring British athletes competing at the London Olympics in 2012 to make up for a shortfall in government funding  Comments 
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Olympic sports chiefs fly in to break venue deadlock

Top officials from two sports will fly to London next week as 2012 chiefs seek to resolve a deadlock over Olympic venues  Comments 

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn could direct opening ceremony of 2012 Olympic Games

Damon Albarn is in the running to be artistic director for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.  Comments 
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones

Tory leader asks former spy chief to review 2012 security

David Cameron has commissioned a review of London’s £1.5 billion Olympics security operation by former intelligence chief Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, the Evening Standard has learned  Comments 

Roads

Fast lanes for the Olympics 'will slow ambulances'

Creation of an Olympic road network will put the public at risk by slowing down emergency vehicles during the 2012 Games, ambulance and police chiefs have warned ministers  Comments 
Sir Clive Woodward

It’s not cheating ... GB 2012 stars get ‘home advantage’ in 2012

Britain's Olympics chiefs have come up with a cunning plan which might just win us more medals in 2012  Comments 

Olympics

Olympics attract world sport summit to London

The world's largest sports summit, attended by some 2,000 people from every major international sports federation will be staged in London before the 2012 Olympics  Comments 
Olympic Stadium

£1m cost of investigating £160m Games black hole

The investigation into a £160million black hole in the London Development Agency's Olympics budget has cost £1million  Comments 

Darius Knight

2012 Olympic hopeful sent to China to keep his eye on the ball

An Olympic medal hopeful from London has been forced to train in China to escape the hype surrounding his chances in 2012  Comments 
Olympic Stadium

Premier giants want a u-turn on decision not to use Olympic Stadium

London's top clubs have joined forces in an attempt to resurrect plans to use the 2012 Olympic Stadium in Stratford as an integral part of the bid to win the World Cup in 2018 or 2022  Comments 

Olympic park

Olympic legacy projects to be cut by £21 million after accounts bungle

Projects intended to deliver a legacy of the 2012 Olympics have been cut by the London Development Agency after a bungled land deal blew a £160 million hole in its budget  Comments 

Finance row risk to Olympic upgrades

Row over the cost of the next stage of the Tube modernisation could prevent large-scale improvements being ready for the London Games  Comments 


 
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