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.
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 [...]
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announced that the Olympic Flame will arrive in the UK on Friday 18 May 2012 and will travel around the UK for 70 days, arriving in London the weekend before the 2012 Games begin.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Oscar Pistorius is aiming to be the first athlete to compete at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games when they are held in London in 2012, he told The Times this week.
London’s organising committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games plans to deliver interactive online content around the 2012 sporting events. To…
As Wenlock and Mandeville are unveiled as the official mascots for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, we take a look at the mascots representing each summer games since 1972
London 2012 organisers unveil cartoon animations named Wenlock and Mandeville as the mascots for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.