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The venue for badminton, handball and rhythmic gymnastics at the 2012 London Olympics is set to be moved for cost-cutting purposes. London organisers had planned to build a temporary, 6,000-seat arena in the north Greenwich area, but a report by ...
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Bulldog spirit: Fabio Capello could be helming a Great Britain football team at the London Olympics in 2012 Photo: REUTERS The England head coach has called on the powers-that-be to ensure Team GB has a football side at the London games and he has ...
Read moreEngland's Fabio Capello wants to manage GB team at London 2012 ... - Daily Telegraph
Promises of a 'skills legacy' from the London Olympics were in doubt today as it emerged that 20,000 migrant workers had registered for jobs in the main 2012 borough in the past year. The surge in new National Insurance numbers in Newham has prompted ...
Read more20,000 migrant workers register for London Olympics jobs - despite ... - Daily Mail
Sponsors backing the London Olympics are to club together to increase their clout and maximise the value of their investments, amid signs of disenchantment at their treatment by games organisers. The chairmen and chief executives of the 2012 games ...
Read moreOlympics sponsors unite to increase influence - Financial Times
Some of us (me, for example) never wanted to have the Olympic games in London in the first place. The whole process of bidding for them is thoroughly distasteful - the pursuit of a spurious form of national glory, the ugly competition with the other ...
Read moreEven the government is going off the Olympics. Is it too late to give ... - Guardian Unlimited
LONDON (AP) _ Hindsight is 20-20 when it comes to the 2012 Olympics. Britain's government official in charge of the 2012 summer Olympic Games has made headlines by saying London might not have bid for them had it known an economic recession was ...
Read moreIf we knew then: UK Olympics minister makes headlines questioning ... - Hartford Courant
Keywords: olympic games , olympics , london olympics , sport , 2012 olympics , olympic stadium , tessa jowell Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has admitted the Government would not have supported London's bid for the 2012 Games if they had forecast the ...
Read moreCrisis may have prevented Olympic bid - ITN
Ms Jowell, the minister for the Olympics and Paymaster General, made her frank admission to around 40 leisure industry bosses at a dinner on Tuesday night. "Had we known what we know now, would we have bid for the Olympics? Almost certainly not," she ...
Read moreTessa Jowell: London 2012 Olympics was a mistake in light of recession - Daily Telegraph
Sir Alex Ferguson should be given first refusal to coach the Great Britain football team at the 2012 Olympics , according to ex-sports minister Richard Caborn. Ferguson has been informally approached by London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe about the ...
Read more'Greatest manager' Ferguson should coach GB football team, says Caborn - Guardian Unlimited
LONDON : Britain would not have bid to host the 2012 Olympics if the government had known it was heading for recession, the minister in charge of the London Games was quoted as saying on Thursday. Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell was reported in the ...
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