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All life through the lens with Taylor Wessing prize

06.11.09
It is hardly surprisingly that the overall winner of this year's £12,000 Photographic Portrait Prize is Paul Floyd Blake's image of Rosie Bancroft... more

Disabled athletes chase dream in trials for 2012

28.09.09
Group of 70 aspiring athletes will tomorrow begin their bid to represent Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympics... more

Disabled Olympics fans face shortage of London hotel rooms

24.08.09
Boris Johnson is under pressure as London was faces a shortage of hotel rooms to accommodate disabled spectators at the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics... more

Fast guide to the London 2012 Games

27.07.09
From free events to volunteering, here's a quick guide to London 2012... more

Britain and Russia sign Olympic deal

05.06.09
Britain and fellow Olympic host nation Russia have signed a deal to try to make the most of staging the Olympic Games, it was announced... more

UKA secure sponsorship extension

12.05.09
Athletics: UK Athletics has secured a four-year extension to its sponsorship deal with SPAR UK... more

Baroness remains at UK sport helm for Olympic run-up

13.03.09
Baroness Campbell has been reappointed as the chair of UK Sport, Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has announced... more

Pistorius recovering after surgery

23.02.09
Athletics: South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is recovering well at a Johannesburg hospital after undergoing surgery on head and facial injuries sustained in a boating accident... more

£10m fund to maintain stadium after 2012

11.02.09
The 2012 stadium will cost £800,000 a year to maintain after the Games... more

London calling for Pistorius

15.01.09
It may be just four months since Oscar Pistorius left the Beijing Paralympics with a hat-trick of gold medals, but the South African sprinter is already setting his sights on making an even bigger splash at London 2012... more

Funding cuts will stop our 2012 dreams in their tracks

29.12.08
Hundreds of young British athletes dreaming of participating in the London Olympics face disappointment as public funding is cut... more

Athletes' fury as basketball funding is cut

17.12.08
Athletes objecting to government cuts to their funding for the 2012 Olympics are protesting at Downing Street... more

Eight sports hit by Olympics shortfall

03.12.08
Eight of Britain's Olympic sports faced an uncertain future following a shake-up of funding arrangements ahead of the 2012 Games... more

Boris hails the aquatic medallists of Beijing Games

16.10.08
Cheering wildly, Union-flag-waving crowds packed the streets of London to give a golden welcome to Britain's Olympic heroes... more

Chinese university for Hackney in 2012 legacy

02.10.08
London Mayor Boris Johnson is in talks with some of China's leading universities to establish a new campus in the Olympic Park... more

Revealed: how park will look after 2012

22.09.08
This is the first detailed plan to reveal what will happen to the Olympic park after the 2012 Games... more

It could be meltdown for United as chaos hits banks

17.09.08
David Mellor expects the Premier League to suffer from the mayhem in the financial markets... more

Boris takes the flag again as Beijing games close

17.09.08
Boris Johnson accepted the Paralympic flag, signalling the end of the 2008 Beijing Games and marking the run-up to London 2012... more

We'll stick to budget for the Games, pledges Boris

17.09.08
Boris Johnson has promised Londoners they will not pay "a penny more" for the 2012 Olympics despite the current banking crisis... more

Fetish comedy from Doug Stanhope

15.09.08
While Doug Stanhope's show was never quite earth-shattering, it was easy to see why this drug-guzzling gonzo has such loyal followers. ... more

Weir suffers his second gold setback

11.09.08
Paralympics: World champion wheelchair racer David Weir was feeling low again after his second disappointment in 24 hours at the Paralympics in Beijing... more

Storeys have happy ending in Beijing

10.09.08
Paralympics: Sarah Storey and husband Barney each claimed golds as Great Britain's cyclists extended their dominance at the Paralympics... more

Officials set to protest at race re-run

09.09.08
Paralympics: British team officials are weighing up whether to contest the International Paralympic Committee's decision to demand a re-run of the women's T54 5,000 metres final... more

Fourth gold for cyclists

08.09.08
Paralympics: Anthony Kappes and pilot rider Barney Storey have secured Britain's fourth cycling gold medal of the Paralympics in Beijing... more

Dave Collins to pay price for GB's poor track showing in Beijing

01.09.08
Dave Collins, performance director of UK Athletics, is expected to have contract his terminated... more

October parade to honour heroes of the Games

19.08.08
Britain's Olympic heroes are to be paraded through London to mark the nation's best medal tally since 1920... more

Goldman: Games curb China growth

11.08.08
A new report by Goldman Sachs says China's economy will be hit hard in short term and show few long-term economic benefits... more

2012 and the threat to an iconic London landscape

28.07.08
A keystone of our Olympic bid was the offer to hold the equestrian events in Greenwich Park. Now the Evening Standard can reveal just how devastating this could be... more

Testers turn up heat in hunt for Olympic drugs cheats

26.03.08
A record 1,500 drugs tests will be carried out on British athletes preparing for the Beijing Olympics... more

Olympics bandwagon is rolling in

07.01.08
Sports stars will be in Trafalgar Square on Wednesday for the launch of a 2012 Olympics roadshow.... more

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