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The argument over a venue for the 2012 badminton tournament continues to flutter back and forth like a thorny yet somehow aerodynamic shuttlecock. You may recall snatches of the back story. The IOC complained about dithering after organisers nixed a £40 million temporary venue on …

Denise Lewis and Jonathan Edwards. © Brian Griffin – National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project As part of the 1000 day countdown to the 2008 games, Beijing PR bods invited locally based foreign residents to go on a long-distance jog around a Lake. Facing …

Could this crimson pylon be built on the Olympic site? The Times has gotten wind of a plan to build a colossal monument near Stratford to act as a lasting architectural legacy for the games, driven by the Mayor. “He wants to build something quite …

Olympic organisers today unveiled images of the first London2012 stamps. The set of ten sporting rectangles goes on sale on 22 October. Designs carry the London2012 logo and represent canoe slalom, track events, aquatics, judo, badminton, weightlifting and basketball, as well as equestrian, bocchia and …

It’s one year today since construction began on the Olympic Park at Stratford. Driving through the vast building site yesterday, the progress is apparent and staggering. The stadium, of course, is already a significant landmark on the East London skyline. But other buildings are also …

How the coin should look Aged 6 to 12? Enjoy designing national currencies? Then do we have the perfect competition for you. The Royal Mint seeks imaginative designs for commemorative Olympic coins and wants the country’s youngsters to lead the way. (Presumably, the logic runs: …

Olympic organisers have revealed further details of a 252 acre park at the heart of the Olympic site. In case you don’t know your acres from your quakers, that’s somewhere betwixt Battersea (200 acres) and Victoria (290 acres) Parks. The wide open space will provide …