Summer Olympics







IOC finances defy global turbulence

By David Owen at the Grosvenor House in London

Jacques Rogge_London_July_23_2012July 24 - Governments and banks may be collapsing, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has arrived in London in rude financial health.

Cardiff ready to host first event of 2012 Games

By David Gold at the London Media Centre

Millennium Stadium_July_23July 24 - Cardiff is gearing up to host what will be the first event of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but there will be no Welsh players on show when the Britain's women's football team take on New Zealand at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff tomorrow.