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All life through the lens with Taylor Wessing prize

2009-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

Disabled athletes chase dream in trials for 2012

2009-09-28T06:47:17Z

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

Disabled Olympics fans face shortage of London hotel rooms

2009-08-24T10:15:45Z

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

Fast guide to the London 2012 Games

2009-07-27T08:28:48Z

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

Britain and Russia sign Olympic deal

2009-06-05T12:21:30Z

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

UKA secure sponsorship extension

2009-05-12T12:02:18Z

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

Baroness remains at UK sport helm for Olympic run-up

2009-03-13T12:53:58Z

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

Pistorius recovering after surgery

2009-02-23T11:56:56Z

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

�10m fund to maintain stadium after 2012

2009-02-11T10:44:31Z

The 2012 stadium will cost �800,000 a year to maintain after the Games

London calling for Pistorius

2009-01-15T17:02:06Z

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

Funding cuts will stop our 2012 dreams in their tracks

2008-12-29T08:31:15Z

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

Athletes' fury as basketball funding is cut

2008-12-17T08:33:17Z

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

Eight sports hit by Olympics shortfall

2008-12-03T13:48:31Z

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

Boris hails the aquatic medallists of Beijing Games

2008-10-16T09:37:18Z

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

Chinese university for Hackney in 2012 legacy

2008-10-02T07:56:45Z

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

Revealed: how park will look after 2012

2008-09-22T07:38:30Z

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

It could be meltdown for United as chaos hits banks

2008-09-17T09:46:55Z

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

Boris takes the flag again as Beijing games close

2008-09-17T15:33:44Z

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

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

2008-09-17T08:06:04Z

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

Fetish comedy from Doug Stanhope

2008-09-14T23:00:00Z

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

Weir suffers his second gold setback

2008-09-11T11:00:46Z

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

Storeys have happy ending in Beijing

2008-09-10T10:57:15Z

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

Officials set to protest at race re-run

2008-09-09T10:15:10Z

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

Fourth gold for cyclists

2008-09-08T10:52:35Z

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

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

2008-09-01T10:01:01Z

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

October parade to honour heroes of the Games

2008-08-19T07:47:59Z

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

Goldman: Games curb China growth

2008-08-11T10:52:37Z

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

2012 and the threat to an iconic London landscape

2008-07-28T09:29:58Z

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

Testers turn up heat in hunt for Olympic drugs cheats

2008-03-26T13:06:57Z

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

Olympics bandwagon is rolling in

2008-01-07T09:40:13Z

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