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Seb Coe

The Big Interview: Lord Coe

Video: 'Like Napoleon, I have always worked alongside lucky generals' - peer says London's preparations for 2012 Games are right on track  Comments 
Olympic Village

Olympic Games builders finish 1,000th home for athletes

1,000th home in the 2012 Olympic Village is completed in a key milestone for the £1 billion project  Comments 
Olympic velodrome

Complete circuit as work finishes on steel structure for Olympic velodrome

Work has been completed on the steel structure of the £100million Olympic velodrome  Comments 

Stratford site. View north across the river Lea towards the velodrome

2012 Olympics site to be turned into biggest urban park for a century

Games chiefs unveil plans to transform the Stratford site into 250 acres of parklands in a £200 million project  Comments 
Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry lined up to be the voice of 2012 Olympic Ganes

Stephen Fry is being lined up as the voice of the London Olympics  Comments 


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Sir Steve Redgrave

Infighting at top is threat to London Olympics legacy, warns government report

Government’s legacy plans for the 2012 Games are at risk according to a confidential government report  Comments 
Olympic stadium under construction

One in four Olympic site workers is from abroad

£6 billion Olympic building project employs one in four workers from overseas, official figures revealed  Comments 

Wind farm turbine

Energy firm EDF abandons 2012 Olympics turbine due to ‘lack of wind’

Doubts are raised about the green credentials of the Games after its official energy supplier pulls out of a wind turbine project  Comments 
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Date set for first 2012 Olympics ticket sales

Sports fans will be able to buy tickets for the Olympics from the start of next year, the Standard understands  Comments 

Artist’s impression of the 'super-mosque'

‘Delight’ as London super-mosque near Olympic site is blocked

Campaigners opposed to a 'super-mosque' being built next to the 2012 Olympic site tell of their delight after the scheme was blocked  Comments 
Olympic Stadium

University of East London plans sports faculty under Olympic stadium

University in talks to establish a specialist sports faculty at the Olympic Stadium after 2012  Comments 

Olympic park

Olympic park to be closed for one year after 2012 Games

Olympic park will shut to the public for building work for at least one year after the 2012 Games  Comments 
Ruth Mackenzie

Ruth Mackenzie to mastermind Cultural Olympiad

Job of masterminding a world-class arts festival in London for the 2012 Olympics has been awarded to government adviser Ruth Mackenzie  Comments 

Boris Johnson with the Olympic flag

2012 Olympics 'stormtroopers are harming small businesses'

London’s 2012 Olympics chiefs are accused of behaving like 'stormtroopers' towards small businesses  Comments 

2012 Olympics visitors make £40m for London

London has made almost £40million from an increase in sports and business events in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, say tourism chiefs  Comments 

Money

Olympics bill for anti-terror measures could soar to £2bn

Cost of security at the London Olympics could more than double to £2 billion, the Standard has learnt  Comments 
Hannah Beharry

Knockout blow as boxers lose out on £200,000 training funds for 2012

British boxers are missing out on a competition that would have earned them £200,000 a year towards their Olympic training because of a shortfall in government funding  Comments 

Sir Steve Redgrave carrying the Olympic torch

Olympians will take torch to home towns

British Olympians past and present will be offered the chance to carry the Olympic torch through their home towns before the 2012 Games  Comments 
City Hall

City Hall ordered to reveal details of £160m Games bungle

City Hall chiefs have been ordered to reveal key details behind a bungled London Olympics land deal which left a £160million 'black hole' in the 2012 budget  Comments 

Sullivan Morais, Tony Wilkinson, Daniel Basterfield and Ryan Maynard

School serves up table tennis stars in time for 2012 Games

Specialist London sports college has been hailed as a medal factory after producing four national champions in table tennis  Comments 
Woman lifting weights

More Londoners get in shape for Olympics

Londoners are increasingly getting themselves fit in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, according to official figures  Comments 

Londoners celebrate winning the 2012 Olympics

Four in five Londoners support 2012 Games

Londoners' backing of the Olympics remains strong, with a government poll showing four out of five people in the capital are still in favour of the Games  Comments 
Ken Shuttleworth's plan

2012 ‘Octopus’ greeting from renowned architect

His other designs have included the Gherkin and 'wobbly' Millennium bridge, but now architect Ken Shuttleworth has moved on to multi-armed ocean life  Comments 

Ross Clarke

Olympic hopeful found safe after mystery 11-day disappearance

2012 Olympic hopeful who disappeared after struggling with the strain of competing at the highest level has been found safe and well  Comments 
judi dench

Dame Judi’s alarm over theatre funding lost to pay for Games

Dame Judi has calls for arts funding to be ring-fenced after accusing the government of diverting money from theatre and film to pay for the 2012 Olympics  Comments 

Ross Clarke

Parents’ plea to missing 2012 hopeful who struggled under pressure

Parents of missing 2012 Olympic hopeful Ross Clarke tell how he disappeared after struggling with the strain of competing at the highest level  Comments 
Bob Martin’s Time Magazine shot of Barcelona Olympics in 1992

Master of Olympic photography sets the viewfinder for 2012

He has captured the defining images at Olympic Games from Barcelona to Beijing. Now Bob Martin, the renowned British sports photographer, has begun the search for the ultimate shot of London 2012  Comments 


 
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