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".

Mills admits 2005 Olympic bid had questions unanswered

By Mike Rowbottom at at the Legacy Lives 2010 Conference

March 4 - Sir Keith Mills (pictured), chief executive of the successful London 2012 bid, admitted today that his team had not worked out all the details to underpin one of the key commitments which earned them the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) vote in Singapore five years ago.