Danny Boyle To Oversee Opening Ceremony Of 2012 Olympics?
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle will reportedly be overseeing the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Coventry to host football at London 2012
• Sky Blues’ ground to be renamed City of Coventry Stadium • ‘This is a great honour and we are proud to be involved’ Coventry City’s Ricoh Arena has been chosen as the Midlands venue to host football at the 2012 Olympic Games. The announcement comes after Villa Park was ruled out due to planned [...]
Coventry to host Olympics matches
Coventry City’s Ricoh Arena has been chosen as one of the football venues for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Seb Coe praises UK and London’s presence at Shanghai Expo
Sebastian Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), today visited Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China to celebrate the promotion of UK and London at the world’s biggest Expo event.
London 2012 Olympics: Great Britain Basketball seeking permanent home option
Great Britain Basketball has opted out of bidding for the temporary arena which will house the London 2012 Olympic Games basketball tournament.
Wembley Arena to host Badminton and Rhythmic Gymnastics in 2012
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) have agreed that Wembley Arena in north London will be the location for Badminton and Rhythmic Gymnastics at the Olympic Games in 2012. Detailed plans for the venue will now be [...]
Wenlock and Mandeville
Official London 2012 Mascots
Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton.[57] They have only one eye each which symbolises the Eye of Providence. They are named Wenlock, after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville, a town [...]
London 2012 on track as Mondo named Tier Three supplier
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announced that Mondo has become a Tier Three supplier to London 2012. Mondo becomes the Official Supplier of Sports Flooring and Equipment.
2012 Olympics: mascot mockery round-up
Waggish columnists have, naturally, been wringing every last drop of derision from their creative juicebanks in the cause of humiliating poor old, one-eyed, Wenlock and Mandeville. Londonist begins its round-up of trans-continental scorn as follows:
Well, it was always going to happen, wasn’t it? Had the Olympic organisers reanimated Frank Lloyd Wright, William Morris and Harry [...]
London 2012 confirms ArcelorMittal as Tier Two supporter
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is pleased to confirm ArcelorMittal as a Tier Two sponsor of London 2012 and Official Steel Supporter of the Games. The deal follows confirmation that ArcelorMittal will fund the construction of a 115m-high visitor attraction in the Olympic Park in time for the [...]
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