Results tagged “Games”

Team GB's male gymnasts secured a place at this summer's Games by finishing top at the Olympic test event at The O2.

The men's artistic team failed to qualify last year after finishing 10th at the World championships in Tokyo but won by a good margin in last night's competition.

A rush of sports fans clambering for Olympic tickets caused the official resale website to crash this lunchtime.

The London Organising Committee announced it had temporarily suspended the site to 'update and refresh' the system at 2pm, blaming demand exceeding supply.

TV personality Christine Bleakley was dishing out tickets for London 2012 at Westfield Stratford City yesterday evening.

The new host of Dancing On Ice pulled the cord on a giant party popper firing 50 pairs for next year's Olympic and Paralympic Games into a crowd of eager shoppers.

British Olympic hopeful Tom Daley took the first dive into the pool at the completed Aquatics Centre this morning as the final park venue for the 2012 Games was unveiled.

The Olympic Stadium, Velodrome, Handball Arena, Basketball Arena and the International Broadcast Centre are all complete and as it celebrated one year until the start of the Games, like the Olympic Delivery Authority announced all venues were finished on time and on budget.

As all eyes turn to Stratford for next year's Olympic Games, they should find it hard to miss the golden arches.

Games sponsor McDonald's has announced plans for four outlets on the Olympic site including the world's biggest.

The 1.2 million applicants who missed out on Olympic tickets will be able to apply for a new batch from next week.

In a chance from previous policy, tickets for the 311 available sessions will be offered on a first come first served basis from Friday (June 24).

Counselling will be given to police guarding the Olympic torch on its UK tour to help them return to normal duties after the event.

The Metropolitan police officers will protect the torch from possible protest attacks during its 70 day 2012 trip.

One in eight schoolchildren will get free Games tickets as part of the London 2012 Get Set education network.

London 2012 Chair Seb Coe and Mayor of London Boris Johnson have appealed to schools in London and across the UK to ensure they do not miss out on their chance to receive tickets to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Construction of the London 2012 Handball Arena is now complete, making it the third venue on the Olympic Park ready for the Games next year. The construction milestone was marked by a visit to the venue by Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as they announced new measures to support youth employment, inspecting work carried out by apprentices on the Olympic Park.

Don your dancing shoes and join Greenwich Dance and East London Dance as they take steps to get us moving ahead of the London 2012 Games.

Cultural Olympiad organisers hope to get thousands of people of all ages involved in a world-record attempt to create the biggest multi-location dance routine that will be triggered by the arrival of the Olympic Torch in Britain on May 18 2012.

The chance to apply for London 2012 Olympic tickets closed last night and early reports show that over 20 million tickets were applied for, with around 1.8 million people submitting requests for tickets.

Applications were received for every session, every sport, across every price point. Over 50 per cent of the 650 sessions are oversubscribed and tickets will be allocated via ballots.

Following her unexpected departure from Newham Sports Academy, Tessa Sanderson has spoken out about her concerns that London 2012 will not leave an athletics legacy.

Sanderson, who lost the funding for her academy from Newham Council just a year before the Games, made her views known in an interview with BBC today.

A new London Underground ticket hall and entrance at Stratford Regional Station, which aims to keep London 2012 Games-goers moving, opened yesterday.

Passengers will now be able to enter and leave the station more easily and congestion will be reduced during busy periods.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park hit another milestone this week.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has invited formal expressions of interest from organisations interested in operating the Aquatics Centre and Multi-Use Arena after the Games. Interested parties now have six weeks to bid to run the venues.

By John Biggs

Last month I wrote, about the plans to not route the Olympic Marathon through the East End: "If the Games are part of a process of breathing new economic life into the East, then hiding our streets away is hardly a way of doing this.

These idiots must change their plans."

The Olympic Park will be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park following the 2012 Games.

It was announced today by the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympic, Media and Sport, that Her Majesty The Queen has given her consent for the park to bear her name.

A first class athlete helped launch the second of Royal Mail's London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games stamps at Newham Leisure Centre this week.

Docklands paraplegic table tennis player Jane Campbell, 41, from Limehouse, who is part of Team GB was there to celebrate her sport being featured on the new stamps titled On Track For 2012.

Disappointing setbacks could curb aspirations to stage the greenest ever Olympics.

London 2012 is unlikely to meet its target to obtain 20 per cent of its electricity from new local renewable energy sources during Games-time, the London Assembly was told last week.

There are just three years to go until the greatest show on Earth arrives on Canary Wharf's doorstep and the excitment is building.

The man in charge of successfully delivering the 2012 Olympics Games is Paul Deighton, chief executive of the London Organising Commitee (Locog).

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