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The Olympic Games are still over two years away but planning for what will happen on the Park after 2012 is well underway.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company was set up last year to oversee the long-term development of the area and its chairwoman, Baroness Ford, recently gave evidence to a House of Commons select committee about its plans.
Work to transform the Olympic Park into a community facility following the 2012 Games faces a shortfall of £450million.
Although construction of the site is ongoing scrutiny has already started on the cost of its legacy, with the likelihood taxpayers will foot the bill.
The focus of Olympic sport might be on Vancouver at the moment but that doesn't mean work stops on organising the 2012 Games.
While the world is watching the winter events unfold in Canada Debbie Jevans and her team are busy ensuring preparations for London stay on track.
East London is in grave danger of missing out on a lasting legacy from the Olympics, according to a London Assembly report.
A study by the economic development, culture, sport and tourism committee into the 2012 Games says there needs to be more ambitious targets for employment and thousands of new homes made available to local people.
The 2012 Olympics promised to leave a lasting legacy for east London and the man charged with overseeing the delivery is confident it's an opportunity that won't be wasted.
Andrew Altman is chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, set up to ensure the facilities and infrastructure in Stratford are not left to rot when the Games finish.
The David Beckham Academy has been reborn as the London Soccerdome.
The former England captain closed his football school in North Greenwich last month and doubt surrounded the future of the venue, which is due to be demolished after the 2012 Olympics.
Olympic boxing champion James DeGale was the star attraction when he joined some 2012 hopefuls at Excel last week.
DeGale, who won middleweight gold in Beijing in 2008, turned professional at the start of last year, denying himself the chance of more Olympic glory in London.
Protestors against the use of Greenwich Park for events at the 2012 Olympics have dug up a 19th Century law they believe will "scupper" Games' planners.
Pressure group No To Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events (Nogoe) claim the use of Circus Field in Blackheath, next to Greenwich Park, is illegal under the Metropolitan Commons Act 1866.
It's late 2012 in east London. The Olympic party is over. The athletes and spectators have gone home.
For this part of the capital, which was promised so much from hosting the world's greatest event, what will be left?
A new era at West Ham started today with the promise from new owner David Sullivan that he will do all he can to move the club to the Olympic Stadium in 2012.
Mr Sullivan, who along with David Gold acquired a controlling interest in the Irons along last night, promised changes will be made across the board at the troubled club.
Olympic 400m champion Christine Ohuruogu has been unveiled as the official patron of the 2010 Balfour Beatty London Youth Games.
The 25-year-old Newham & Essex Beagles athlete is lending her support to Europe's largest annual youth sport event, which sees over 47,000 participants from the 33 boroughs competing in 30 different sports.
It's been another exciting sporting year and plenty of big names have appeared in the pages of The Wharf, including West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola, a quartet of England cricket captains and two heroes of the 1966 World Cup win.
We look back at what's been making the headlines locally and nationally over the last 12 months.
The wave-shaped roof of the Olympic Aquatics centre has been put in place as work on the 2012 venues continues ahead of schedule.
Designed by Zaha Hadid the 160m long structure was lowered into place this week in one of the most complex engineering challenges of the project.
Legacy has been one of the keywords for the 2012 Olympics even before London was awarded the Games in 2005.
In the four years since great strides have been made in developing the infrastructure for the Games but less tangible are the long-term employment benefits for east London.
Triple Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie was shooting the breeze in Canary Wharf this afternoon.
Britain's greatest Olympic sailor and has packed a lot into his 32 years and has spilled the beans in his autobiography Close To The Wind.
British basketball's biggest star put in an appearance at The O2 today despite missing out on this weekend's Game On tournament.
Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng was meeting fans at the arena ahead of the four team tournament which starts on Friday.
A clutch of Britain's Olympic swimming stars are lining up to take a dip in the Royal Docks next month.
The Great London Swim takes place in the Royal Victoria Dock on August 15. Over 2,000 swimmers will be tackling a one mile route through with Olympic medallists David Davies, Keri-Anne Payne, and Cassie Patten among them.
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).
Christine Ohuruogu is among a number of Newham & Essex Beagles athletes included in the Great Britain team for next month's World Championships.
The World and Olympic 400m champion has been handed the chance to defend her title in Berlin despite recent injury problems.
PY Gerbeau has never been back to the Millennium Dome. A decade ago the Frenchman was parachuted in from Disneyland Paris to the ill-fated, government-backed venue following its disastrous start.
His stay was, on the whole, successful and you would think he would be only too pleased to have watched an occasional pop act there while reminiscing over old times.
