Evening Standard - Olympics

London students to test stadium for Olympic Games

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:39:24 GMT

Britain's leading student athletes will be the first to use the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium in a rehearsal for the 2012 Games

£10m pyramid-selling scheme to bankroll Team GB for 2012

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:14:56 GMT

Olympic chiefs have embarked on a £10 million pyramid-selling scheme to help fund the British team in 2012

BMW signs £40m deal to put the drive into London Games

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:36 GMT

BMW defied the global slump in the prestige car market by announcing a £40 million-plus deal to sponsor the London Olympics

2012 Olympics ad boss: I wouldn't pick that logo

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:32:16 GMT

Controversy over the Olympic logo has been reignited after the advertising agency chosen to promote the Games distanced itself from the design

£100m bill to run empty arenas in Games gap year

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:19:36 GMT

Taxpayers face a bill of £100million for Olympic venues that will remain empty for up to a year before the Games

Tower of bubbles floated for Olympics

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:06:40 GMT

Cloud of inflatable plastic bubbles could float above Londons skyline as part of a new Olympic monument

Watershed for 2012 swimmers as aquatics centre gets new roof

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:01:06 GMT

Work on the £300million Olympic aquatics centre - the architectural gem of the 2012 Games - reached a major milestone with the completion of the stingray-shaped roof

2012 Games security may close Thames at Windsor

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:54:11 GMT

Stretch of the Thames may be closed to boats during the 2012 Games

First venue of £6bn Olympic Park is finished: a tin shed

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:14:47 GMT

It may not win any architectural prizes but a lime-green building made of old shipping containers has become the first London 2012 Olympic Park venue to be completed

2012 Olympics budget 'now £12billion'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:38:30 GMT

Campaigners demand 'full transparency' on Olympic finances after it was claimed that the budget for the 2012 Games has risen to £12billion

Games' Legacy minister 'is failing to make voice heard'

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:38:30 GMT

As minister for Olympic legacy, Shahid Malik's onerous task is to help deliver the jobs, homes and regeneration the Government promised as a benefit to Londoners of hosting the 2012 Games

Olympics IT chief in N-word row accused of sexist abuse

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:03:36 GMT

Manager at the Olympic Delivery Authority resigned amid allegations of racist and sexist abuse of colleagues

Forecasters for 2012 Games try to beat vagaries of our weather

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:05 GMT

Olympics chiefs are determined that they will not to be beaten by the British weather and are appointing a team of expert forecasters to minimise disruption to the 2012 Games

Plan to Spice up the Olympics

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:02:33 GMT

The Spice Girls could reunite to perform at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony

2012 project to help deprived children across world play sport

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:02:33 GMT

More than a million children in the Middle East will get free sports lessons as part of the London 2012 charity mission, it has emerged

The stars hoping to pave Londons streets with gold

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:11:14 GMT

As the countdown begins tomorrow to the London Olympics in 2012, these British sportsmen and women are already on the road to glory

Recession slashes £3bn off Olympics dividend

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:31:54 GMT

Recession wipes £3 billion off the value of the Olympic economic 'dividend', as games gallery launches at NPG

From sports shop to the Olympics: London's version of Cool Runnings

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:27:09 GMT

A 25-year-old former sports shop worker from Islington has been fast-tracked to compete for Britain at the Winter Olympics in the bob skeleton

LDA will shelve climate work after losing £161m from Olympics budget

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:35:00 GMT

Boris Johnson denies key climate change schemes were at risk after his regeneration body acquired a massive hole in its budget after getting its Olympics sums wrong

Mayor's Wembley Arena venue 'is too remote'

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:54:27 GMT

Boris Johnson's cost-cutting proposal to use Wembley Arena for the London Olympics has run into trouble after international sports chiefs complained the venue was too remote

Cricket to be an Olympic winner with 2012 legacy

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:54:27 GMT

Cricket chiefs are in talks with Boris Johnson about a move to the Olympic stadium after the 2012 Games

Ageing British rock stars to take centre stage in 2012 celebrations

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:23:38 GMT

Free concerts in Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace by stars such as the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Led Zeppelin could form part of the cultural celebrations for the 2012 Olympics

All Olympic athletes face bedroom raids in anti-doping crackdown

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:32:11 GMT

Athletes competing at the London Olympics face regular bedroom raids by anti-doping officials, ministers said

£1.8 million paid in bonuses to Olympic venue managers

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:09:28 GMT

Managers at the Olympic Delivery Authority are being handed bumper bonuses of more than £18,000 a year

Tesco town planned next to 2012 site

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:51:43 GMT

Tesco is building a new 'supermarket suburb' next to the Olympics site which will house hundreds of families and come with its own high street, park, library and primary school