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The future of the Olympic Stadium should be known by next May with bids from interested parties being invited from today.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is seeking tenants to use the Stadium, which will be reduced to 60,000 seats after next year's Games, for a range of sporting, cultural and commercial events.

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.

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.

West Ham have confirmed their commitment to taking over the Olympic Stadium.

The club released a statement this afternoon underlining their determination to move to the Stratford venue. It follows co-chairman David Gold's reiteration that re-developing the club's current Upton Park home is not an option.

The devil will be in the detail when the future of the Olympic Stadium is finally decided.

That was the message from the Olympic Park Legacy Company's chief executive Andrew Altman and chairman Baroness Ford when questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

The future of the Olympic Stadium could be just a little bit clearer after Tottenham Hotspur dropped their legal challenge over the decision to award the venue to West Ham United.

Spurs and Leyton Orient had both applied for a judicial review into the process that saw the Olympic Park Legacy Company decide in West Ham's favour earlier this year.

Confusion surrounds the apparent collapse of the deal for West Ham to move into the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games.

A statement will be made by the Government at around lunchtime today about the future of the £500million venue, after a complaint was made to the European Union about Newham Council's £40million contribution as part of the deal.

West Ham have claimed that Tottenham offered to drop their legal challenge over the Olympic Stadium if the Hammers asked the police to drop their inquiry into Spurs' use of a private investigator.

The Irons refused the request, which was made yesterday - just as Spurs and Leyton Orient were granted leave for a judicial review on October 18.

Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur have won the latest round in the battle to take possession of the Olympic Stadium after 2012.

The club has won permission to mount a legal challenge to the decision by the Olympic Park Legacy Company to award the stadium to West Ham.

The decision to name West Ham United as preferred tenants for the Olympic Stadium has been upheld after an independent review.

Forensic accountants from Moore Stephens had been asked to investigate the decision following allegations that an Olympic Park Legacy Company director was employed as a consultant by West Ham.

Anyone wanting to be part of next year's Olympic Games now has the chance - and you don't need any sporting talent to be involved.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games (Locog) has begun a search for adult volunteer performers to participate in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Games.

West Ham United have released details of an independent investigation into their acquisition of the Olympic Stadium which they claim exonerates the decision by the Olympic Park Legacy Company to make them the preferred bidder.

Rivals Tottenham Hotspur claimed there was a conflict of interest by an OPLC employee involved in the process.

The Olympic Stadium's final design has been wrapped up after it was announced that the building will be swathed in fabric during next year's Games.

Locog has confirmed that a sustainable fabric wrap will encircle the Stratford venue by next spring, providing the finishing touch to the centrepiece of the Games.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has launched an independent investigation into the process that saw the Olympic Stadium awarded to West Ham.

It follows that OPLC employee Dionne Knight undertook consultancy work for West Ham while the bid process was ongoing.

Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales has said plans for the Olympic Stadium should not be delayed following recent allegations.

It comes after an Olympic official was suspended for carrying out paid consultancy work for West Ham, who are taking over the site post-Games.

West Ham have called in their legal team to fight allegations of impropriety in their successful bid to take over the Olympic Stadium.

A report in yesterday's Sunday Times alleged that an employee of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, Dionne Knight, worked for West Ham during the bidding process, which ended when West Ham were awarded the stadium in February.

West Ham could be set for a bit of retail therapy to help their move to the Olympic Stadium.

The Irons are reported to be in discussions with Westfield over a £20million sponsorship deal to help transform the venue into a football ground after the 2012 Games, and it could mean retractable seating being installed on the running track.

Tottenham Hotspur have started legal proceedings against Newham Council over its role in West Ham's successful bid to take over the Olympic Stadium.

Spurs, who lost out in the battle of the clubs to move into the stadium, are unhappy that Newham pledged a loan of £40million to help the Hammers.

It will become a venue of legends and today the final piece of turf at the Olympic Stadium was laid as preparations for the 2012 Games continue apace.

A delegation of delegates from the International Olympic Committee helped lay the last pieces of turf, with former sprinter Frankie Fredericks among those doing the honours.

The Government and the Mayor of London have approved plans for West Ham to move into the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games.

The decision was not unexpected, with the Irons being named as preferred tenants by the Olympic Park Legacy Company three weeks ago, when they saw off a rival bid from Tottenham Hotspur.