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Olympic chiefs raid contingency funds 
Posted on  22-01-2009 12:38:45 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

Olympic organisers have raided contingency funds to keep construction on track.

£461m out of the £2bn budget is being used to bail-out two projects after they failed to attract any private investment.

The £900m Olympic Village will receive £326m, while two media centres, costing a total of £355m, ...


  
Brown on site as 2012 hits halfway point - Business leaders announced 
Posted on  16-01-2009 01:07:05 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown was on site at the Olympic complex today as the planning hit the half way point.

Brown said the games were a "job creator and growth generator" during the economic downturn - echoing the words of Olympic minister Tess Jowell that 2012 was "economic ...


  
No football, no rugby at 2012 stadium - official report 
Posted on  15-01-2009 05:40:05 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

The 2012 Olympic stadium will not be sold to a football or rugby club - according to an official report.

Sources say consultants think the venue can survive as a stand alone athletics course.

The £500m project has been rejected by clubs as the Olympic Delivery Authority is ...


  
 
Posted on  09-01-2009 04:32:59 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

The centre piece Olympic Stadium is on track to become a £500m white elephant after Leyton Orient's Chairman said the design had "no commercial value."

The Olympic Delivery Authorities instance of an athletics track around the 80,000 seater stadium, which keeps fans further away from the action, has ...


  
Former 2012 security chief - 'Games warning' 
Posted on  16-12-2008 02:11:52 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

The former head of security for the 2012 Olympics has warned that time is running out to effectively police the games.

Tarique Ghaffur, who up until the autumn was in charge of ensuring security for the three weeks of sports, claims security planning is being undermined by cost-cutting ...


  
2012 Velodrome moves up a gear - pictures 
Posted on  10-12-2008 03:45:55 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

This picture shows the £8m velodrome for the 2012 games is on track, say Olympic chiefs.

Workers have been digging out the distinctive bowl since August on the site of the old West Ham rubbish tip. There have been concerns over contamination from decaying refuse.


Around 48,000 ...


  
The 2012 private sector black hole - Jowell admits shortfall 
Posted on  10-12-2008 12:20:42 PM (GMT +00:00)


Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has admitted that efforts to raise private funds to help build the biggest 2012 venues may end in failure.

When asked by a parliamentary culture media and sport committee yesterday whether it was possible no private funding would materialise she answered:

"Of course ...


  
Sports get their 2012 budgets - Association Chief angry 
Posted on  03-12-2008 05:00:06 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  Sports Desk

The budgets for the 2012 have been revealed with basketball, synchronised swimming, taekwondo, boxing, archery and hockey the big winners.
UK Sport unveiled their Olympic 2012 funding programme in tough economic times and the government’s failure to secure £100m in private funding.

  
Broke Britain has no appetite for 2012 Olympics 
Posted on  25-11-2008 06:17:12 AM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  John Kaponi

Jacque Rogge the president of the IOC is in London along with 400 executives from other nations, the picture in the capital is bleak, support for the Games is low and money is tight, is time we considered a u-turn on the 2012 games?

by John Kaponi


  
Diane Abbott - "Olympic job figures massaged" 
Posted on  18-11-2008 03:49:40 PM (GMT +00:00)
Published By  [email protected]

MP for Hackney Diane Abbott has accused developers of "massaging" job figures for the Olympics.

She said in the House of Commons that the number of residents in the 2012 borough working on the site will not be what contractors claim.

The Hackney North & Stoke Newington MP ...


  
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