Olympics

Munich 2018 managing director leaves bid

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

March 22 - Richard Adam (pictured), the joint managing director of Munich's bid to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics, has left the organisation after it was claimed that he had been sacked because of a personality clash with chief executive Willy Bogner.

London 2012 ticketing process opens

By Mike Rowbottom in London

March 22 - Paul Deighton, chief executive of London 2012, said today that the registration scheme set up as the first step for would-be spectators at the Olympics and Paralympics had had 40,000 hits in the first four hours.

D-Day for Greenwich Park decision

By Cathy Wood in London

March 22 - London’s Olympic chiefs will learn tomorrow night (Tuesday) whether they can use Greenwich Park for the equestrian and modern pentathlon events at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Exclusive: Coe - Sullivan comments are like cracked record

By Duncan Mackay in Whistler
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

March 19 - Sebastian Coe (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has claimed that comments from critics that the Olympic Stadium should be turned over to a football club after the Games and that if it used to stage athletics it is waste of public money are beginning to sound like "a cracked record".