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Public support for the 2012 Olympics is still high according to a new survey.

Confidence about staging a successful Games has grown to 79 per cent from 76 per cent last year, with 75 per cent of people pleased London is hosting the showpiece. This compares with 78 per cent in a survey a year ago, conducted following Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics.

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).

"People tend to believe major projects in the UK don't always go as well as they should, but when you look at the track record in the last 10 years the majority have gone very well."

John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), is confident the Games are a golden opportunity to show off the best of British.

LONDON 2012 will boost lives of disabled people across the whole of Britain, says world champion runner Danny Crates.

The 35-year-old from Essex, who lost his right arm in a car accident in 1994, has gone on to become one of the most successful British Paralympic athletes.

With London set to take become the Olympic host city this Sunday, August 24, celebrations across the capital are being planned.

And Greenwich's own Olympic venue, The O2, is taking part when it hosts a handover party on Sunday afternoon.

ONE OF Britain’s brightest Paralympic hopes boosted his chances of gold in Beijing when he smashed his own world record over the weekend.

British adaptive rower Tom Aggar set a new world best for the single sculls at the FISA invitation meeting at the London Regatta Centre on Saturday.

The Royal Docks venue saw Aggar complete the 1,000m course in five minutes four seconds, shaving nine seconds off the mark he set when he won the world championships in Germany last September.