LOCOG have announced that the under 16s Volunteer Performer Cast for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies…
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) will hand over the Olympic and Paralympic village site to LOCOG on Friday 27 January.
Bernard Lagat's thoughts are likely to be on the 5000m when he
competes in tomorrow night's mile at the U.S. Open at Madison
Square Garden.
No man has run faster more often than Asafa Powell. But the Jamaican, who has come up small in big meets throughout his career, has rededicated himself to training, saying past laziness won't cut it in the Olympic year.
The British government and Olympic great Sebastian Coe are backing the
national Olympic body's fight to keep a lifetime ban for drug cheats.
There's a nod to Shakespeare, a big bell and … nurses? Academy
Award-winning director Danny Boyle offered a sneak peek of his vision
for the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony, revealing Friday that
he'll ring a massive bell to start festivities that will include
thousands of performers and offer a tribute to a British institution,
the National Health Service.
London marked a mere six months to the start of its Olympic Games on
Friday by focusing on the minutiae of putting on the show now that the
monumental stage has been built.
With six months until Britain hosts the Olympics for the first time in
64 years, the pressure is cranking up on the athletes expected to
deliver a gold rush on home soil.
It's the burning question of the London Olympics. Who will – or should – light the cauldron for the 2012 Games?