Greg Norman believes the decision to make golf an Olympic event will attract more people to the sport in developing countries.
Golf will return to the Games for the first t...More>
British companies have secured almost all the £5bn worth of contracts to build the venues for the 2012 Olympic Games.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Government figur...More>
UK Sport director of performance Peter Keen has hailed the positive impact National Lottery funding has had on elite sport in this country.
The lottery celebrated its 15t...More>
The International Paralympic Committee has voted to allow athletes with intellectual disabilities to compete at the 2012 Games in London.
Intellectual disability athletes h...More>
Deloitte has launched a competition to help students at universities across the UK understand the business challenges of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London.
Th...More>
The International Paralympic Committee General Assembly will this week decide whether athletes with intellectual disabilities will be allowed to compete at the 2012 Games in L...More>
BMW has signed up to become the official automotive partner of the London 2012 Olympics.
The German carmaker is the 24th sponsor of the Games and its sixth sustainability p...More>
London 2012 is talking to advertising and marketing agencies about a brief to promote the positive legacy the Olympic Games will have on this country.
Trade magazine Campai...More>
Greg Nugent has been appointed to the newly created role of brand and marketing director for London 2012.
Nugent, a former Eurostar marketer, had been interim marketing dir...More>
The advertising agency hired by London 2012 to promote the Games could find itself in hot water after comments from its European boss about the much-maligned graffiti-style lo...More>
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be the UK’s “greatest security challenge” since the Second World War, a Home Office minister has said.
Lord West, who is l...More>
ESPN has won the South American broadcast rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games in a deal worth about $10m.
It takes over from the Iberoamericana Television Organizatio...More>
Tokyo officials insist no decision had been made on whether the city will bid for the 2020 Olympics.
Japan’s capital lost out to Rio de Janeiro in the race to host the 2016...More>
The wave-shaped roof of the 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre has been set in place in East London.
The 2,800-tonne structure, designed by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid, will ...More>
Bari’s bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games has been rejected by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) because the bid team did not follow strict rules laid down by the organisat...More>
London 2012 chief Paul Deighton has admitted that signing up sponsors to multi-million-pound deals during the recession has been “tough”, and has set his sights on raising ...More>
Istanbul has confirmed it will bid for the Olympic Games for a fifth time.
The Turkish city has failed to win the Games on four previous occasions – in 2000, 2004, 2008 and...More>
