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Olympic Games builders finish 1,000th home for athletes

04.02.10
1,000th home in the 2012 Olympic Village is completed in a key milestone for the £1 billion project... more

Complete circuit as work finishes on steel structure for Olympic velodrome

28.01.10
Work has been completed on the steel structure of the £100million Olympic velodrome... more

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

21.01.10
Doubts are raised about the green credentials of the Games after its official energy supplier pulls out of a wind turbine project... more

£100m bill to run empty arenas in Games gap year

13.11.09
Taxpayers face a bill of £100million for Olympic venues that will remain empty for up to a year before the Games... more

£1.8 million paid in bonuses to Olympic venue managers

15.10.09
Managers at the Olympic Delivery Authority are being handed bumper bonuses of more than £18,000 a year ... more

2012 bosses give themselves £60k bonus

16.07.09
Bosses at the Olympic Delivery Authority enjoyed average bonuses of £60,000 each in the past 12 months... more

Olympic chiefs ‘are only paying lip service’ to needs of cyclists

14.07.09
Railway stations in London’s five Olympic boroughs provide storage for little more than 200 bikes, the Evening Standard can reveal... more

No crunch in 2012 Olympic village rooms

07.07.09
Olympic chiefs set out vision for Olympic village and their plan for the legacy of the site... more

Big bonus for 2012 Olympic venues boss

03.07.09
The man in charge of delivering Olympic venues for the 2012 London Games is to pick up a six-figure bonus despite struggles to get the £8.1 billion project on track in the recession... more

Portable arena for 2012 basketball to cost £60m

02.07.09
Olympics chiefs are finalising a £60million deal for the 2012 basketball arena to become the world's largest portable sports venue... more

Olympic village to be turned into family housing

19.06.09
Detailed proposals for converting the £1billion Olympic village from athletes' accommodation to family homes and flats are to be revealed... more

Olympic Games bosses find jobs for only 115 of the unemployed

10.06.09
Only 115 unemployed east Londoners have had jobs on the construction of the Olympic Park, it has emerged... more

2012 Olympic park ready for climate change

14.04.09
Olympic chiefs are attempting to "future-proof" the Olympic park by planting only trees, grasses and flowers that will be able to withstand hot, wet weather ... more

2012 track 'will be the fastest in cycling history'

25.03.09
The 2012 velodrome will have the fastest track in cycling history, Olympics chiefs pledged... more

First picture of £105m cycling park that was a rubbish dump

25.02.09
The first images of the £105million Olympic cycling scheme that will remain for Londoners after the 2012 Games have been released... more

Recession cuts value of Olympic flats by 40 per cent

18.02.09
At least £300million has been wiped off the projected re-sale value of the taxpayer-funded Olympic village by the recession, insiders have revealed... more

ODA told: train more apprentices

17.02.09
Unions have called on Olympics chiefs to improve their record on training as it emerged that only one per cent of site workers were on apprenticeships... more

He lives in a B&B and is classified as local by 2012 chiefs: Meet Arturas the 'British' builder from Lithuania

16.02.09
A Lithuanian labourer has told how he is considered a "local" by bosses of the 2012 Olympic site as pressure mounted over jobs for London workers... more

5,000-volt fence goes up at Olympic site

04.02.09
A four-metre-high electrified perimeter fence is being erected around the 240-hectare Olympic site... more

Olympic firms fail to hire in Stratford

02.02.09
Firms working on the London Olympics have privately admitted that they will not be able to meet their pre-recession pledge to employ local workers... more

Taxpayer faces spiralling bill for Games as funding dries up

30.01.09
The taxpayer may have to fund every Olympic venue because of the credit crunch, 2012 chiefs admitted... more

Olympics chiefs in plea for bail-out

21.01.09
The Olympic Delivery Authority will ask Alistair Darling for a bail-out of several hundred million pounds as it seeks to keep the building of 2012 venues on track... more

30,000 workers on 2012 site

16.01.09
Up to 30,000 workers will be needed on the Olympic Park, giving a major short-term boost to the jobs market, Games organisers said today.... more

How the 2012 Olympic village will look

08.01.09
New images of the £900million Olympic village in Stratford have been released by the Olympic Delivery Authority... more

2012 whitewater canoe course doubles in cost to £30million

06.01.09
The cost of an artificial whitewater canoe course for the London Olympics has almost doubled to £30 million, the Standard can reveal... more

£80m velodrome is on track for 2012

10.12.08
This aerial image shows the £80million velodrome in the north of the Olympic Park beginning to take shape... more

Official: Third of 2012 workers from overseas

05.12.08
The London Olympics is employing one third of its workers from overseas, official statistics reveal... more

Clean-up hits velodrome

01.12.08
The cost of the 2012 velodrome could rise above its budgeted £80 million as workers remove hundreds of tonnes of rubbish from the site... more

Woolwich shooting range costs must be cut by £10m

27.11.08
At least £10million must be cut from the spiralling cost of converting Woolwich barracks into a shooting range or the Olympic event could be staged elsewhere... more

No football club in 2012 stadium, says shops developer

24.11.08
The owners of the Stratford City shopping centre next to the Olympic Park are opposed to the main stadium becoming home to a Premier League football team... more

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