Ogogo hoping for successful Euros
Middleweight Antony Ogogo says winning a medal at the European Championships in Moscow could be the first step on the road to success at London 2012.
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 Olympics: organisers abandon plans for widespread road closures
London 2012 Olympic organisers abandon plans for widespread road closures as report praises sustainabitity.
BBC agrees Diamond League deal
BBC Sport will broadcast all 14 events of the new IAAF Diamond League in 2010.
Jeremy Hunt to be new culture and Olympics minister
New government department to combine DCMS with responsibility for London 2012 Olympics
Jeremy Hunt has been appointed secretary of state for culture, Olympics, media and sport in a newly created department in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government.
Hunt’s new brief combines the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with Tessa Jowell’s ministerial responsibility for the London 2012 [...]
Sainsbury’s signs up as 2012 Paralympics sponsor
The supermarket chain is the first to sign as a Paralympics-only sponsor in the largest deal in the event’s history
Sainsbury’s has signed up as the first sole sponsor of the 2012 London Paralympics, in what the organising committee claims is the largest sponsorship of the event in its history.
Sainsbury’s, the first partner to sign as [...]
Parties in rural broadband pledge
The three main parties in Dorset agree that faster internet connections are essential for the rural economy.
Triathlete Swallow moves abroad
Reigning long-course triathlon world champion Jodie Swallow decides to relocate to Switzerland as she bids to make the 2012 Olympics.
Triathlete Swallow moves abroad
Reigning long-course triathlon world champion Jodie Swallow decides to relocate to Switzerland as she bids to make the 2012 Olympics.
BBC to screen Commonwealth Games
The BBC announces it has won the rights to broadcast the 2010 Commonwealth Games from Delhi in October.
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