Evening Standard - Olympics

The Big Interview: Lord Coe

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:40:41 GMT

Video: 'Like Napoleon, I have always worked alongside lucky generals' - peer says London's preparations for 2012 Games are right on track

Olympic Games builders finish 1,000th home for athletes

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:58:06 GMT

1,000th home in the 2012 Olympic Village is completed in a key milestone for the £1 billion project

Complete circuit as work finishes on steel structure for Olympic velodrome

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:22:21 GMT

Work has been completed on the steel structure of the £100million Olympic velodrome

2012 Olympics site to be turned into biggest urban park for a century

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:54:05 GMT

Games chiefs unveil plans to transform the Stratford site into 250 acres of parklands in a £200 million project

Stephen Fry lined up to be the voice of 2012 Olympic Ganes

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:13:57 GMT

Stephen Fry is being lined up as the voice of the London Olympics

Infighting at top is threat to London Olympics legacy, warns government report

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:46:54 GMT

Governments legacy plans for the 2012 Games are at risk according to a confidential government report

One in four Olympic site workers is from abroad

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:08:37 GMT

£6 billion Olympic building project employs one in four workers from overseas, official figures revealed

Energy firm EDF abandons 2012 Olympics turbine due to lack of wind

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:01:11 GMT

Doubts are raised about the green credentials of the Games after its official energy supplier pulls out of a wind turbine project

Date set for first 2012 Olympics ticket sales

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:44:15 GMT

Sports fans will be able to buy tickets for the Olympics from the start of next year, the Standard understands

Delight as London super-mosque near Olympic site is blocked

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:39:50 GMT

Campaigners opposed to a 'super-mosque' being built next to the 2012 Olympic site tell of their delight after the scheme was blocked

University of East London plans sports faculty under Olympic stadium

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:56:30 GMT

University in talks to establish a specialist sports faculty at the Olympic Stadium after 2012

Olympic park to be closed for one year after 2012 Games

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:27:33 GMT

Olympic park will shut to the public for building work for at least one year after the 2012 Games

Ruth Mackenzie to mastermind Cultural Olympiad

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:05:35 GMT

Job of masterminding a world-class arts festival in London for the 2012 Olympics has been awarded to government adviser Ruth Mackenzie

2012 Olympics 'stormtroopers are harming small businesses'

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:03:49 GMT

Londons 2012 Olympics chiefs are accused of behaving like 'stormtroopers' towards small businesses

2012 Olympics visitors make £40m for London

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:00:21 GMT

London has made almost £40million from an increase in sports and business events in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, say tourism chiefs

Olympics bill for anti-terror measures could soar to £2bn

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:04:57 GMT

Cost of security at the London Olympics could more than double to £2 billion, the Standard has learnt

Knockout blow as boxers lose out on £200,000 training funds for 2012

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:03:20 GMT

British boxers are missing out on a competition that would have earned them £200,000 a year towards their Olympic training because of a shortfall in government funding

Olympians will take torch to home towns

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:37:59 GMT

British Olympians past and present will be offered the chance to carry the Olympic torch through their home towns before the 2012 Games

School serves up table tennis stars in time for 2012 Games

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:52:13 GMT

Specialist London sports college has been hailed as a medal factory after producing four national champions in table tennis

City Hall ordered to reveal details of £160m Games bungle

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:49:00 GMT

City Hall chiefs have been ordered to reveal key details behind a bungled London Olympics land deal which left a £160million 'black hole' in the 2012 budget

More Londoners get in shape for Olympics

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:40:27 GMT

Londoners are increasingly getting themselves fit in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, according to official figures

Four in five Londoners support 2012 Games

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:00:27 GMT

Londoners' backing of the Olympics remains strong, with a government poll showing four out of five people in the capital are still in favour of the Games

2012 Octopus greeting from renowned architect

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:52:11 GMT

His other designs have included the Gherkin and 'wobbly' Millennium bridge, but now architect Ken Shuttleworth has moved on to multi-armed ocean life

Olympic hopeful found safe after mystery 11-day disappearance

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:39:33 GMT

2012 Olympic hopeful who disappeared after struggling with the strain of competing at the highest level has been found safe and well

Parents plea to missing 2012 hopeful who struggled under pressure

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:27:33 GMT

Parents of missing 2012 Olympic hopeful Ross Clarke tell how he disappeared after struggling with the strain of competing at the highest level