FIFA were forced to back-track on statements that African football leader Issa Hayatou has been appointed to head the Olympic football tournament in London... more
Feature: London 2012 will be a new experience for one volunteer. Urvasi Naidu, who has been a volunteer for every Olympics since the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, always carries some masking tape in her handbag... more
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is to be invited to a reception with the Queen at Buckingham Palace as part of an Olympics delegation before next summer's Games... more
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge risks the wrath of more than a million unsuccessful sports fans as he praises the 'amazing' London 2012 ticket sales... more
The arrest of a security guard responsible for sniffer dogs happened as the high command of the International Olympic Committee had been attending a turf-laying ceremony yards away to inaugurate the Olympic stadium - and they cannot fail to have been unimpressed... more
The president of the International Olympic Committee, who competed in three Games, sets out the challenges facing the capital - and hails the talent of Britain's Ben Ainslie... more
Battle for the Olympic stadium escalates as most powerful figure in world sport insists he will fight to stop the flagship venue being demolished to make way for football... more
Issa Hayatou, the FIFA vice-president accused by BBC Panorama of taking bribes, insists he is innocent - and that he will not take out his anger on England's 2018 World Cup bid... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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