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>
The London 2012 Olympics will cost the British public at least £12bn – £2.7bn more than originally promised, it has been claimed.
The Daily Telegraph reports that...More>
Organisers of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics have been wooing more than 500 British businesses at a special summit in London.
Russia signed a host-to-host partnership deal ...More>
Over a billion pounds worth of Olympic and Paralympic contracts are still up for grabs, businesses attending the London 2012 Business Summit at ExCeL were told on wednesday.
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A successful 2010 World Cup will pressure the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to give the Olympic Games to an African country, Danny Jordaan, World Cup organising commi...More>
A multi-million pound boost to the emergency services radio communication system has been awarded as the countdown to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic G...More>
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge said the TV bidding rights for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games could begin soon after the end of the Vancouver 20...More>
Japan Today reports a panel to study the feasibility of Hiroshima and Nagasaki co-hosting the 2020 Summer Olympic Games was launched Saturday.
Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Ak...More>
Less than a month after Rio de Janeiro’s election as the host of the 2016 Olympic Games, a delegation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has paid the new host city...More>
On the eve of the 1,000-day countdown to the London Olympics, the organisers have been given a glowing appraisal by Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC. Rogge applauded their ...More>
