Olympic Stadium: An Athletics Spectator’s Guide
You’ve managed to get a ticket for the athletics, but what is it actually like inside the Olympic Stadium?
Athletics
Folk Olympics: The Native American Who Ran In Hackney
Meet Deerfoot, who set a world record in the Olympic borough over 100 years ago.
London To Host 2017 World Athletics Championships
Athletics is coming to London…
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Olympic Sport Lowdown: Athletics
Faster, Higher, Stronger. Athletics embodies the Olympic motto.
London Bids For World Athletics Championships
We’ve been here before…
London Pulls Out Of World Athletics Championship Bid
Ministers have decided to pull London’s bid for the 2015 World Athletics Championship, little more than two weeks before the winner is announced. The bid, which was announced in March, has been scuppered by ongoing uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Olympic stadium: the rival …
London Bids For 2015 World Athletics Championships
The Olympic Stadium, searching for a ‘legacy’ purpose with all the desperation of an ageing and ineloquent footballer who’s just suffered a serious injury, may just have found something to shoot for post-2012. The International Association of Athletics Federations has announced that London is one …
Olympic Heroes Up Close
Many thanks to Richard Parmiter who got these incredible Team GB shots from the parade today and stuck them in the Londonist Flickrpool. Medals galore and Mark Foster.
London Olympic Timetable – Final Weekend
Well, who would have thought we’d reach our fourteenth and final London Olympic Timetable worried that a fluffed handover in the women’s 4x100m relay might let the Russians chase Britain down in the overall medal table? The good news is Team GB could yet strike …
London Olympic Timetable – Second Friday
Gold! Gold, I tell ‘ee. Gold, in them thar doldrums, damn yer eyes! Ahh, hahahahahaha! We ‘opes you’ll forgive us old sea dogs splicin’ the mainbrace in honour of our crew what’s brought treasure back to these shores. Aye, aye! It’s first mate Andrew Simpson …
