The Independent (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The post-Games future of the Stratford stadium could yet be as an 80,000-arena after Lord Coe suggested that it could form the centre-piece of a bid for the 2015 World Athletics Championship.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
• 'From the outside, it looks like a shambles' • Premier League unlikely to submit replacement for Richards Karren Brady, the former Birmingham City managing director who was on the 2018 World Cup board for only a matter of weeks before stepping aside to lead an advisory panel, admitted today that the bid had been blighted by "bickering, infighting and disruption". Asked if the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
• BMW named as London's automotive partner • Australia fearing Olympic inadequacy Team 2012 is making steady progress towards its target of belatedly filling the £25m funding gap that emerged post Beijing. Having earlier this year bagged Visa as its main sponsor in a £10m deal, the coalition between UK Sport, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and the British...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
• Five of 12 directors agree to stand down from bid board • Karren Brady among those to depart to advisory group England 2018's under-pressure chairman, Lord Triesman, today attempted to draw a line under a series of destabilising public rows that have threatened to undermine fatally the World Cup bid by fundamentally restructuring its board. Following an emergency meeting, five of the 12...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Lord Coe has warned that the battle for votes in England’s fight to host the 2018 World Cup is in severe danger of being lost.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Lord Coe has warned that the battle for votes in England’s fight to host the 2018 World Cup is in severe danger of being lost.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Lord Coe has warned that the battle for votes in England’s bid to host the 2018 football World Cup is in severe danger of being lost.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
There are 999 days to the start of the London Olympics and 397 to the moment when we will know whether the 2018 football World Cup is to be played in England. Which means that Baron Coe of Ranmore is going to be an exceptionally busy man. The fact that, despite its detractors and the recession, London 2012 arguably is further ahead of schedule than any post-war Olympic city is a tribute to Coe and...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
With 1,000 days to go until the 2012 Olympics in London, Games chief Lord Coe says preparations are ahead of schedule.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
With 1,000 days to go until the 2012 Olympics in London, Games chief Lord Coe says preparations are ahead of schedule.
Londonist (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Denise Lewis and Jonathan Edwards. © Brian Griffin - National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project As part of the 1000 day countdown to the 2008 games, Beijing PR bods invited locally based foreign residents to go on a long-distance jog around a lake. Facing the same landmark tomorrow, but opting for an altogether more sedate and cerebral affair this morning, the National Portrait Gallery...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
C ity Council leader Mike Whitby believes Birmingham has already struck Olympic gold almost three years before the 2012 action gets underway. The deal for USA Track and Field – the most successful squad in Olympics history – to base themselves in Birmingham ahead of the London Games will be officially signed tomorrow (Oct 22). This is the first major 2012 training camp deal and successfully...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
By secretlondon123 Ghoulishly, Halloween happens to mark 1,000 days until the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. LOCOG are taking this as no kind of walking dead portent and Lord Coe and his team are, in fact, ebullient. Thomas Cook have signed up as a sponsor to the tune of £20 million and there's much bigging up of the project £7 billion boost the UK economy as the...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
With 1000 days to go before the opening ceremony London 2012 organising committee chairman Lord Coe says the Games will provide a £7 billion boost.
Bromley Guitar Society Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
After a heavy session of culinary over indulgence at a Thai restaurant (its all Mae Pings fault!!- the food was delicious!!), your correspondent managed to 'roll up' (literally) with guitar and sundries to St Marks for a brisk aerobic workout for the fingers and the ear. Ray Butcher (the Lord Coe of the ensemble aerobics) took as all through our paces with a bash at the Drunken Sailor, followed by...
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