Landscaping has already begun on the Athletes’ Village site where a wetlands park is already underway. The Village proposes to accommodate the athletes and officials throughout the course of the games. Once the games are over the Village will then be used to provide homes for 2, 818 families.
Olympic Delivery Authority Chairman John Armitt said: ‘The Athletes’ Village will not only deliver essential new homes for Londoners, it will create new parks, trees, play areas and open spaces that can be enjoyed by new and existing communities for generations to …

A new proposal to create special ‘Games Lanes’ will be put in place to ensure that both athletes and officials involved in the games will be able to travel to and from the various venues with ease.
The lanes will be in areas through central London; Wembley Stadium; to Stratford  and to Grenwich. The lanes will be 60 miles in length and in addition to the Olympic Route Network covering 2.5% of the roads around the capital. It is anticipated that up to 18,000 athletes and officials will use the roads …

Sports fans numbering high into the tens of thousands have registered their interest in attending the 2012 Olympics this morning after the ticketing strategy for the games was unveiled.
10,000 plus people signed up every hour, with more than 40,000 signed up by midday. The organising committee for the London Games urged fans to register their interest on a new website after this major interest. Signing up at www.tickets.london2012.com does not guarantee you a ticket but when the ballot opens next spring, it make give you a step ahead.
Competition laws states …

International Inspiration set to leave long-term global legacy
19 Feb 2010
ernational Inspiration set to leave long-term global legacy 19 Feb 2010 The team behind London 2012’s International Inspiration programme have guaranteed a long-term legacy for the first global sports participation programme ever delivered by an Organising Committee. Internation Inspiration in Vancouver Seb Coe (London 2012 Chair), Tessa Jowell (Olympics Minister) and Keith Mills (London 2012 Vice-Chair and Chair of the II Foundation) met with President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee and President of the Rio 2016 Organising Committee, …

Seb Coe has come to the defence of the Vancouver Winter Olympics following the surfeit of media criticism the Games have received.
Coe is in Canada along with London 2012 colleagues to see how Vancouver is coping with the challenge of hosting an Olympics. The Games have had a number of problems, which have caused some sections of the media to label them a failure.
A lack of snow on Cypress Mountain has caused the postponement of some events, and the death of the 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili cast an uncomfortable …