Summer Olympics

London 2012 budget "worringly tight" warns Parliamentary Committee

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

March 31 - A Parliamentary Committee report published today has warned the £9.325 billion ($14.069 billion) budget for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is "tight" with only £194 million ($293 million) available to cover any new risks in the build-up to the Games and has cast doubt over whether £400 million ($603 million) can be raised in ticket sales.

Azerbaijan to train in Ipswich before London 2012

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

March 30 - Ipswich have become the latest town or city in Britain to reach an agreement with an overseas team to set-up a pre-Games training camp after Azerbaijan, including Olympic judo champion Elnur Mammadli (pictured), signed-up to base themselves there before London 2012.

London 2012 ticketing process opens

By Mike Rowbottom in London

March 22 - Paul Deighton, chief executive of London 2012, said today that the registration scheme set up as the first step for would-be spectators at the Olympics and Paralympics had had 40,000 hits in the first four hours.

D-Day for Greenwich Park decision

By Cathy Wood in London

March 22 - London’s Olympic chiefs will learn tomorrow night (Tuesday) whether they can use Greenwich Park for the equestrian and modern pentathlon events at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Exclusive: Coe - Sullivan comments are like cracked record

By Duncan Mackay in Whistler
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

March 19 - Sebastian Coe (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has claimed that comments from critics that the Olympic Stadium should be turned over to a football club after the Games and that if it used to stage athletics it is waste of public money are beginning to sound like "a cracked record".