Our complete archive of Olympic coverage, stretching back to 2005.
Lambeth Co-operative? Yeah – we can see that working. Imperial College boffs have managed to turn sugar into compostable plastic. UFO Stamford Bridge: have we finally learned what makes this team tick? Harrods security really are a joke: this time they’ve refused admission to Shakhtar …
The Hammers’ hopes of planting themselves in the Olympic stadium post-2012 have receded after Olympic minister Tessa Jowell rubbished the idea. Speaking during her taxpayer-funded jolly fact-finding mission in Vancouver, Jowell insisted that the stadium would be used to host England’s second most popular sport, …
No one knows yet. Or if they do, they’re not saying. The London Assembly, through their recently polished web site, are asking for YOUR ADVICE on how to price up the nine million tickets for the 2012 games. They’ve even gone all old-skool social media …
Queen Mary, University of London plays host to a quartet (dammit, one more and we could have called it a pentathlon) of Olympics themed lectures, starting tomorrow night: 9 February: ‘Back to the Future; Flying Down to Rio via London and Ancient Olympia’, Professor Paul …
Work has begun on the green bits of the Olympic Park. At the moment, this consists of clearing industrial waste but that hasn’t stopped the 2012 spin machine feeding us hyperbolic visions of the ‘hanging gardens’ of Stratford, that will eventually adorn the mega footbridge …
By Orhan Tsolak We’re the first to own up to a shaggy rather than sharply delineated definition of London. Windsor’s been mentioned. London Gatwick is really Sussex but we don’t mind. Ebbsfleet is pushing it, but they’re getting a big horse. However, Calais, in our …
With Victorian enclosures law in their armoury, NOGOE held a public meeting on Sunday about the plan to hold Olympic equestrian events in Greenwich Park. More than 200 people turned out, mostly over fears of damage to the World Heritage Site. With the feelings of …
New Hammers head honcho David Sullivan has wasted no time in mapping out his plans for the club: he wants Champions League action within seven years, and a move from the Boleyn ground to the Olympic stadium, just two miles away, after the 2012 Games …
An 1866 legal loophole might be the last bullet in the NOGOE protesters’ arsenal, hoping to shoot down plans to stage equestrian events in Greenwich Park. The act against enclosures on ‘metropolitan commons’ is to be invoked for Blackheath’s Circus Field which adjoins the park …
Image / ova ham We mentioned this briefly yesterday, but it’s such a beautiful image we had to draw your attention to it again. The Olympic site has been undergoing work to make its infrastructure more secure – power lines are now underground, and cyber …
By warriorgrrl Showing impressive creativity when it comes to their green credentials, the Met are recycling a lot more than their Christmas trees. Guns and knives siezed by the force are being melted down and turned into girders to be used on the 2012 Olympic …
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