Olympics-Rogge impressed by London and Rio
Olympic chief Jacques Rogge on Wednesday praised London’s 2012 Games delivery team for being on time and within budget as the two-year countdown to the event gets under way.
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Olympic chief Jacques Rogge on Wednesday praised London’s 2012 Games delivery team for being on time and within budget as the two-year countdown to the event gets under way.
London is on track to finish its Olympic Park 12 months before the 2012 Games officials said Tuesday as sporting greats tried out the venues exactly two years before the opening ceremony.
Olympic quadruple gold medallists Chris Hoy and Michael Johnson tried out London’s 2012 Games facilities on Tuesday, two years to the day before the Games begin.
Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy says the London 2012 Games have taken a step closer to reality after becoming the first person to ride in the velodrome.
London will be ready a year ahead of schedule to stage the 2012 Olympics officials said on Tuesday as Olympic greats prepared to give the capital’s stadiums a test run.
Olympic greats with a clutch of gold medals were to give the emerging London 2012 stadiums a test run on Tuesday as the city marks two years to go until the starting gun is fired.
British Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy will be joined by American sprint legend Michael Johnson to help mark two years to go to the start of the London 2012 Games.
Rebecca Adlington, Tom Daley, Nathan Stephens and Zaha Hadid are a few of the people featured in an exhibition of striking new photographic portraits which show an intriguing new side to key figures in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy decides to pull out of the Commonwealth Games in Delhi because it clashes with a 2012 Games-qualifying championship.
Sir Matthew Pinsent says Cornish rower Annabel Vernon can push for the gold medal at the London 2012 Games.