Three of Britain’s most celebrated Olympians – Sebastian Coe, Dame Kelly Holmes, and Sir Steve Redgrave –today visited a New Delhi school participating in the London 2012 International Inspiration programme, which has now taken sport to over six million young people in challenging situations worldwide.
Plans to ensure that athletes and officials can get to their venues on time, while helping to keep London moving during the London 2012 Games have been published today.
This week the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) begins a public consultation process to seek the views of Weymouth and Portland residents before submitting planning applications to Weymouth and Portland Borough Council later this year.
Olympic Triple Jump champion, Jonathan Edwards CBE, today faced 19-year-old British table-tennis pro, Darius Knight at Tate Modern in the most challenging ping pong match ever, to launch the start of London 2012 Open Weekend, 23-25 July 2010.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has announced that the Olympic Stadium's roof cover has been completed, as the ODA's Annual Report and Accounts for 2009-2010 is published.
London 2012 is inviting people across the UK to gather at London 2012 Live Sites this weekend (Friday 23 – Saturday 25 July) for family entertainment to celebrate London 2012 Open Weekend supported by BP – a series of sporting, arts and cultural challenges set up across the UK to lead the nation into the two-year countdown to the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Jonathan Edwards, LOCOG Board member and Olympic Triple Jump gold medallist joined Loyd Grossman, Chair of the Heritage Alliance, at the Houses of Parliament – a World Heritage Site – to launch the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad ‘Discovering Places’ campaign.
Rebecca Adlington, Tom Daley, Nathan Stephens and Zaha Hadid are a few of the people featured in an exhibition of striking new photographic portraits which show an intriguing new side to key figures in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Stephen Frost, Head of Diversity at the London Organising committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is the third recipient of the annual ORC Peter Robertson Award for Equality and Diversity Champions.
Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympics and national centre for disability sport, will be welcoming the Saudi Arabian Paralympic team to their training facilities in preparation for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Employment figures published today by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) show that the construction workforce on the Olympic Park is approaching its peak.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) have been given an Employers Forum on Age (EFA) award for their work on tackling age discrimination in the work place.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has completed its latest set of milestones on time and within budget, as the ‘big build’ construction project moved into its final year. New aerial images of the Olympic Park have been released showing the good progress being made across the site
Improvements to Stratford Regional Station are on track to ensure it can accommodate the increased number of visitors to Stratford and the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Games.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today confirmed that Technogym has become the latest Tier Three supplier to London 2012. Technogym will supply and install fitness equipment for athletes in the Athletes’ Village and other training venues, becoming Official Fitness Equipment Supplier.
With almost two years to go until the London 2012 Games, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announced plans to recruit up to 70,000 volunteers for the London 2012 Games. The volunteers will be known as Games Makers.
The 40 members of the 2010 Olympic Park Construction Crew have graduated from the annual project that offers local schoolchildren the opportunity to see progress being made on the Olympic Park first-hand.
Teenagers from Aberdeen, Hull, east London (Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets & Waltham Forest), west London (Hillingdon, Hounslow and Wandsworth) and Surrey (Spelthorne) have been selected to take part in a major new personal development programme which will, with guidance from BP employees, give the young people the chance to make a positive and significant change to their lives and local communities. The selected Young Leaders will then also have the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Workers on the Olympic Park have been praised for making the London 2012 construction project one of the safest and greenest in the UK, at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Health, Safety and Environment awards.
The plans were developed with the historical and environmental heritage of the area in mind. The 550 acre site course in Essex includes hill climbs which will provide the challenge for the world’s leading Mountain Bike riders in just over two year’s time.
Four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy has visited the students of Cheshire’s Hartford High School to encourage them in their involvement in International Inspiration, London 2012’s international legacy programme.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has announced that it will be issuing a series of pin badges to celebrate its six strands of diversity and inclusion and engage all communities to support London 2012.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today confirmed that CBS Outdoor has become a Tier Three provider to London 2012. CBS Outdoor will exclusively supply LOCOG with outdoor media space to support major marketing campaigns between now and 2012, in its role as official Outdoor Advertising Supplier to London 2012.
