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No football, no rugby at 2012 stadium - official report 
Posted on  15-01-2009 05:40:05 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

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 +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

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 +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

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 +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

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 +01:00)


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 +01:00)
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 +01:00)
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 +01:00)
Published By  declan@thelondondailynews.com

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 ...


  
2.5 million security personnel required for 2012 Olympic games 
Posted on  09-11-2008 12:43:24 AM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  News Desk

A scathing attack has been made by a cross party Parliamentary committee over the security preparations for the 2012 describing them as "insufficient"

News Desk

Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes of the Association of Police Officers has "advised" a Home Affairs Committee in Parliament that two and a ...


  
IAAF chief starts war of words with London 
Posted on  07-11-2008 03:13:52 PM (GMT +01:00)
Published By  Olympics Desk

The President of the IAAF has warned the organisers of the 2012 games to maintain a positive legacy for athletics in the capital

Olympics Desk

 

 

A war of words has begun in the “legacy debate” over the future use of the Olympics venues in ...


  
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