Gallery: Light Show Welcomes Olympic Rings to Tower Bridge
30 days and counting.
Seb Coe
Mayoral Election Issue #9: Olympics
Mayoral opportunity or potential catastrophe?
Giant Olympic Rings Unveiled At St Pancras
First of several sets to appear across the capital.
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 …
Decathlon Of Stamps Celebrates London Olympics
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 …
Extra, Extra
2012 is to retain its integrity and will not kowtow to TV demands, says our Seb. In case you’re bothered, our Peaches is home alone. Our Amy (and friends) is trying to raise funds to restore the Hawley Arms. Tougher controls have been proposed for …
9.75 Out Of 10 For 2012 Progress
Finally! A good news story about the 2012 Olympics. IOC Coordination Commission Chairman Denis Oswald was not only “truly impressed” with London’s progress since the IOC’s last visit but singled out progress on the Olympic parks as “truly astounding”. Construction work on the sunken cupcake …
From Bad to Worse to Best
Hmm. Londonist hasn’t always had happy bouncy things to say about the 2012 Olympics. And it is rather likely that we will come up with some more searing satirical observations before too long. That is what Londonist does. But just for today, it is with …
Extra, Extra
21/7 men found guilty. Academic couple killed in car crash on M11. Cavalry Museum opens in Whitehall. Prince Philip becomes a Doctor of Science while his wife opens a new department and grants new charter to Imperial College – which breaks away from the University …
2012 Brand Launch, Camden Roundhouse
No matter what your opinion of the 2012 olympics, we’re now all helpless to stop it and we won’t be able to get away from it for five years so in a Stockholm Syndrome-like way we should all come to love our captors and get …
Waiter, there’s a cock in my soup
Here’s a headline you don’t see every day: Man hacks off penis in London restaurant Ouch. Maybe he only meant to leave the tip? “This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about… Everyone was …
