Games countdown marks 1,000 days
With 1,000 days to go until the 2012 Olympics in London, Games chief Lord Coe says preparations are ahead of schedule.
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With 1,000 days to go until the 2012 Olympics in London, Games chief Lord Coe says preparations are ahead of schedule.
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Event organisers are invited to bid for grants of up to £500 to host cultural or sporting events in Suffolk.
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Irish footballer Derek Malone is told he can return to his country’s Paralympic seven-a-side football team after being thrown out of the Beijing games for not being disabled enough.
Fake websites are being set up claiming to sell tickets for the 2012 Olympics despite none being available until 2011, a consumer group finds.
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Top British cyclists hit out at proposed changes to the Olympic track cycling programme for London 2012.
BBC Points West’s look behind the scenes at sporting clubs in the west hoping to be selected by competing nations as training camps for 2012.