2010
25
Mar
AFP reports that Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister, told reporters at the start of a three day visit to Sao Paulo (which is hosting the 2016 Olympics) that the 2012 London Olympic Games will not be kicked around like a political football during the u…
2010
24
Mar
Sir John Madejski, Reading Festival organiser Melvyn Benn and Andrew Cumpsty a Reading councillor are proposing plans to create a “tent city” in the Reading area during the 2012 London Olympics.They claim that people who may not be able to get to Olymp…
2010
22
Jan
The organisers of the London 2012 Olympics (Locog) have demonstrated yet again that the games are more about money and sponsorship, rather than sport.Locog have allocated 60,000 tickets to a New Jersey company (JetSet Sports) for the overseas hospitali…
2010
21
Jan
It seems that all is not well in the London Development Agency (LDA), the body tasked with ensuring that there is some form of meaningful legacy from the 2012 London Olympics (aside from the burnished glow of politicians’ egos).The LDA auditors, audit …
2010
12
Jan
The Telegraph reports that British Shooting has been advised by the government that if it wants a post 2012 legacy at Woolwich, it will have to pay £400K for the privilege.I wonder if that figure will be added to the Olympics budget, even if British S…
2009
11
Dec
It seems that the organisers of the London Olympics, with their enthusiasm for McDonald’s and Coke, have neglected to mention London’s largest fresh produce wholesale market (New Spitalfields Market) in food provision proposals. This is somewhat ironic…
2009
8
Dec
London Olympics organisers have promised that food and drink at London’s Olympics will be British, “wherever possible”.However, 20% of that “Britishness” apparently includes products supplied by McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and Cadbury.As Chief executive Paul…
2009
3
Dec
Sir Alan Haselhurst MP is a tad “cynical” about the Olympics legacy for the hapless, and fed up, commuters of East Anglia.Despite much “hoopla” over plans to install new trains on the Stansted Express line, in time for the 2012 London Olympics, Sir Ala…
2009
2
Dec
Further to my earlier article about £40M being saved from the London Olympics “budget”, by transferring badminton from a purpose built arena to Wembley, it seems that not everyone agrees with this idea.Badminton’s governing body, the Badminton World F…
2009
24
Nov
The Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, has stated in the government’s quarterly report on the London 2012 Olympics that:”This report shows we are still on time and still on budget.”SNORT!What budget is she looking at then?Olympic Medals won during the Be…