London 2012 Olympics

Schools and colleges from across the UK win a visit to the London 2012 Olympic Park

60 schools and colleges from across the UK have visited the London 2012 Olympic Park after winning the opportunity in a prize draw. The prize draw was a reward for joining the London 2012 Get Set network, which is made up of schools across the UK that have demonstrated a commitment to the Olympic and [...]

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 outlines vision for welcoming the Olympic Flame to the UK

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.

Jonathan Edwards declares cooking and languages a recipe for success

Children across the UK could be learning Hindi while cooking Chicken Rogan Josh, or Spanish while preparing a One-Pot Vegetable Chilli from Mexico, as part of the London 2012 education programme ‘Let’s Get Cooking Around the World’.

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 [...]

The Cloud considers London-wide Wi-Fi for 2012

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Monday 24 May 2010 at 11:51:00 Olympic organising committee to look at feasibility of rollout across the capital Wi-Fi operator The Cloud is to evaluate the rolling out of a London-wide Wi-Fi network in time for the 2012 Olympics. London mayor Boris Johnson asked a London Organising Campaign of the Olympic [...]

The pitiful Olympic mascots sum up this sorry affair | Catherine Bennett

It seems all that counts in 2012 is getting gold medals. So forget any proper investment in sport
Weirdly, it was then thought, Tony Blair chose to launch his 2001 manifesto in a school: St Saviour’s and St Olave’s, Southwark. Perhaps forgetting the traditional affinity between deranged leaders and parties of dumbstruck children, Clare Short said [...]

This week: Labour leadership, Craig Venter, Wenlock and Mandeville

Lucy Mangan on the people hitting the headlines in the past seven days
Loss leaders
Milibands, Balls, Burnham, Abbott, McDonnell and …
It may sound like a re-imagining of the roll call for Trumpton but it is of course the full (at time of going to press) list of people who have indicated their willingness to take part [...]

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 [...]