Results tagged “Olympic Games”

Naming rights for the Olympic Stadium, Aquatics Centre and Multi-use Arena are up for grabs after the official launch of the bidding process.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is looking for organisations to associate their brands with the venues through naming rights and other sponsorship deals.

Olympic Gold medallists Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton will head a world class field for the UCI Track Cycling World Cup later this month.

The event at the Olympic velodrome will take place from 16-19 February and will be one of the most eagerly anticipated 2012 test events.

Plans to use a beach on Greenwich Peninsula for live events attended by up to 3,500 people are to be reconsidered by Greenwich Council.

Dutch company Orange Connections have resubmitted an application to use Delta Beach, on the west side of the peninsula, for at least 12 events a year. Greenwich's licensing sub-committee will consider the new application next Wednesday.

Details of the Olympic transport hotspots have been revealed by Transport for London and Canary Wharf is right at the heart of it.

TfL launched its Get Ahead Of The Games website on Monday, giving passengers information about the potential disruption to their commute and how to avoid it.

The opening ceremony of London's Olympic Games will be called Isles of Wonder, inspired from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

The announcement was made this morning by artistic director Danny Boyle at an event to mark the start of the six-month countdown to the event.

Two of UEL's elite scholarship athletes and Team GB hopefuls for London 2012 got an early taste of medal success at the British Closed Judo Championships in Sheffield.

Sophie Cox, who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Olympics, won gold in the under 52kg category, while Gemma Gibbons claimed silver in the under 70kg category.

Olympic security fears at Westfield Stratford City will result in the loss of 5,000 car parking spaces for three months during the summer.

Locog already carries out random checks on vehicles entering the mall located next to the Olympic Park but Westfield will be closing all of its car parks throughout the 2012 Games.

Long jumper Chris Tomlinson is taking a leap into the unknown this year - and not just at the Olympics.

The British record holder is aiming for a first medal at the Games this summer but he's also gearing up for the challenge of the birth of his first child. It means a busy year for the Newham & Essex Beagles athlete.

The website allowing people to resell their Olympic tickets will reopen this afternoon more than 10 days after it crashed.

The London Organising Committee (Locog) has confirmed that its ticketing website will reopen at 3pm, giving people two weeks to offload unwanted tickets. It will close at 6pm on February 3.

Britain's most successful Olympic sailor set his sights on post-2012 success with the launch of his own racing team.

Ben Ainslie will try to win the America's Cup next year as part of the Oracle Racing team and today he launched Ben Ainslie Racing to take part in the America's Cup World Series, which starts in late August.

The Olympic Park is playing host to the Cabinet today to mark 200 days to go until the start of the Games.

David Cameron and his ministers have swapped Downing Street for Stratford for their first meeting of 2012 and are expected to discuss ways of ensuring the Olympics brings lasting benefits to the UK.

Boris Johnson is set for a grilling from the London Assembly over the impact the Olympic Park land debt will have on London-wide regeneration.

The Mayor's regeneration plans will need to be re-examined with the £349million debt incurred by the London Development Agency due to be transferred to the Greater London Authority on April 1.

World and European 5,000m champion Mo Farah will replicate his successful preparations of 2011 as he builds up his bid for Olympic glory.

The Newham & Essex Beagles athlete, who is now based in the United States, will start his 2012 build-up with indoor runs at the Aviva Grand Prix events in Glasgow and Birmingham.

Will Clarke is dreaming of medal glory at the London Olympics but his biggest challenge could be getting to the Games in the first place.

Clarke, 26, is one of Britain's best triathletes but competition for the final place in the British team for the Games in August is fierce as the countdown to this summer's Games continues.

Sebastian Coe has defended the decision to double the budget for the opening and closing cermonies of the Olympic and Parlympic Games.

The Government announced last week it would put £41million of taxpayers money into the four ceremonies, a decision criticised by marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe as "frivolous".

Short-term pain will lead to long-term gain for Docklands Light Railway passengers as the network gears up for its Olympic challenge.

The entire DLR will be suspended this weekend as a new signal control system is installed in preparation for next year's Games, while the Bank/Tower Gateway to Canary Wharf section will shut from Christmas Eve until January 2 as 12km of rail is replaced.

The first names of the people who will be carrying the Olympic Torch around the country have been unveiled and they include a Wharfer.

Elin Haf Davies, who works for the European Medical Agency, is one of 6,800 people given conditional offers to run with the Torch in the build up to the Games. A further 1,200 people will be offered the opportunity next month.

Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets is one of three open spaces selected to be at the heart of London Live - the extravaganza celebrating the arrival of the Olympic Games in the capital.

It will join Hyde Park and Trafalgar Square in being transformed by event promoters Live Nation into giant fan parks with the sport screened live, free entertainment and activities to take part in.

Fact will collide with fiction when the Olympic Torch Relay visits Albert Square next year.

The home of BBC soap EastEnders will feature on the route taken by the Olympic flame, when it will be carried by the Billy Mitchell character through the streets of Walford on July 23.

The Olympic Stadium will be used to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships after London was selected to host the event today.

London was chosen ahead of Doha for the spectacular, the first time the Championships have been held in Britain, delighting the UK's athletics supporters and the organisers of the 2012 Games.