More than 30,000 leaflets will be sent to residents in Weymouth and Portland this week updating them on the latest plans for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sailing events.
The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has outlined its commitment to work with local residents to address concerns about the use of Greenwich Park in the run-up to and during the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
Over 200 children from local schools and community groups are learning first hand the important past of their area that is being uncovered in the creation of the London 2012 Olympic Park.
Clare Wood has been appointed as the London Organising Committee’s Sport Competition Manager for Tennis at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. The Olympic Tennis events happen at the iconic venue of Wimbledon, and Paralympic Tennis at Eton Manor in the north of the Olympic Park, east London.
The piling work to create the permanent foundation for the Olympic Stadium are over halfway through and the project continues to be ahead of schedule, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) confirmed today.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today (June 16) formally invited schools, colleges and other learning institutions across the UK to lead the UK celebrations around the Paralympic Handover on September 17, 2008.
London 2012 today unveiled its plans for celebrating the moment the Olympic Flag is handed over from Beijing to London at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games on August 24. London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe and young Olympic hopeful Tom Daley were joined by Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell to unveil a London and UK-wide series of events aimed at celebrating the Games coming to London in 2012.
ODA Chief Executive David Higgins praised children and young people from east London yesterday for their artwork which they unveiled on hoardings on the Hackney Wick towpath.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announces that the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approved four design changes to the Olympic Park to enhance legacy usage after 2012.
Of the 650 companies that have already won over £2 billion worth of work supplying the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to date over 70 per cent are small and medium (SMEs) sized businesses and 98 per cent are UK based.
Construction work has started on the Olympic Village, keeping plans on track to deliver first-class accommodation for athletes and officials during the London 2012 Games, and leaving a lasting legacy of thousands of new homes in the heart of east London.
