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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".

Greenwich residents can get their hands on more free tickets for Olympic test events.

The council has secured 1,200 tickets for handball and Paralympic goalball. The 700 handball tickets are for the London Prepares event on November 26-27, while the 500 goalball tickets are for the weekend of December 3-4.

Trafalgar Square was taken over by Paralympic sport today to raise public awareness of next year's Games.

The likes of swimmer Ellie Simmonds, "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius and multiple medallist Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson were giving Londoners the chance to learn more about the various sports that will be contested in Stratford next August.

This is what every athlete turning up for next year's Olympics will be aiming to take home - a gold medal.

The designs for the medals up for grabs at next year's Games were unveiled last night as part of the celebrations marking one year to go until the sporting extravaganza begins in London.

Work has started on building the London 2012 shooting venue at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.

The Olympic Delivery Authority has released images of what the temporary venue will look like when it hosts the Olympic and Paralympic shooting competitions, as well as Paralympic archery. It is the final 2012 venue to start being constructed.

The dress rehearsals for the 2012 Olympic Games gets underway at the end of this month, with a whole year of top-class sporting action lined up to whet fans' appetites.

The London Organising Committee (Locog) unveiled its London Prepares series this morning, detailing the programme of events that will test the venues, volunteers and technology to be used at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A thaw in relations between the British Olympic Association and the London 2012 Organising Committee appears to be setting in after the BOA announced it was suspending its legal action.

The BOA was to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over how the surplus due to it after next year's Olympics was to be calculated, but is now to have further talks with Locog over the issue.

Trafalgar Square will host a sporting showcase on September 8 to celebrate International Paralympic Day.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog) has announced that it will stage the event to mark the launch of ticket applications to the London 2012 Paralympics.

In two years' time the world's sporting talent will be hurdling, sprinting, swimming and wrestling at the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

But what is being done to ensure a lasting legacy after the Games have been and gone?
The future of the Olympic stadium, the other sports venues and the media centre were discussed this week by the London Assembly's economic development committee.

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.