The London 2012 stadium must be used for athletics after the Games to fulfil promises made in the bid, according to former Olympics minister Tessa Jowell. Premier League football clubs Tottenham and West Ham are vying to move to the site in east London with the latter pledging to retain the running track. - www.bbc.co.uk
Latest update of my view of the problems surrounding funding London 2012. I explain the two key areas of funding the 2012 games that are impacting on the 2012 contingency budget and how it is potential the start of a large overspending on London 2012 games.
In celebration of its role as Official Treat Provider of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cadbury has created Spots v Stripes - the biggest, longest, most fun game ever, that the whole nation can play. Spots and Stripes team members were dressed from head to toe in purple, all-in-one lycra suits. It was a sight to be seen! Known for their competitive spirit, the Sugababes headed up the two teams and played games in South East London as they encouraged the UK to bring back the spirit of play, ahead of the LO 2012. Watch the fun here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p28ZX7fF73A - www.spotsvstripes.com
IFA chairman Jim Shaw would not stand in the way of Northern Ireland players competing at the London 2012 Olympics Great Britain have not entered the Olympic football competition since 1960 but will qualify automatically as the home nation. - www.morethanthegames.co.uk
Lord Moynihan, the chairman of the British Olympic Association, is to meet sports minister Hugh Robertson on Tuesday to try to find an “amicable solution” to his legal dispute with London 2012 organisers amid growing pressure on the Tory peer to abandon his court action. - www.telegraph.co.uk
The Government is so confident that the London 2012 Olympics will come under budget they are planning to spend £3 million of money earmarked for the Olympics on telling people to go on holidays. - www.telegraph.co.uk
• 15,000 applicants for London 2012 tickets left empty-handed• Organisers seek ways of ensuring they do not miss out againThe thousands of people who missed out on London 2012 Olympics tickets again over the weekend will not be allowed to make another application in this sales window, organisers confirmed today.More than 15,000 people who believed they had been successful in buying Games tickets on Friday discovered on Sunday they had missed out after all.Organisers confirmed around 10% of the 150,000 people who had applied for tickets ended up with nothing. Many thousands more sports fans were only successful for part of their application but London 2012 say they have no figures on how many that number is.Even those people who have ended up empty-handed on two occasions now cannot make another application during this window, which closes on 3 July.London 2012 say they are looking at ways of making sure that they do not miss out again when the 1.3 million contingency tickets go on sale next year.A spokeswoman said: "Our aim is to get as many of these people as possible to the Games and we are thinking and working through how we are going to do that."The only tickets available until next year are in football, volleyball and wrestling.The latest issue over tickets was caused by the computer system run by Ticketmaster. Organisers say this was on a first-come, first-served basis but that system was not live – meaning that people were able to submit applications for some tickets even though they had already sold out.Olympic ticketsOlympic Games 2012guardian.co.ukandcopy; Guardian News and Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms and Conditions | More Feeds
Guardian photographer Tom Jenkins takes in the best of the action at the Hadleigh Farm mountain biking international, an Olympic Games 2012 test event which forms part of the London Prepares series for the Guardian. The event took place in Hadleigh, EssexTom Jenkins
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A coalition of cross party MPs and environmental industry experts has attacked the London Olympics for failing to tackle harmful emissions from construction machines used on site. The coalition is calling on the Olympics site to ensure that the most polluting equipment is fitted with suitable pollution control technology, thereby reducing particulate emissions by at least 85 per cent. Such a move would be in line with the London mayor’s best practice guidance on controlling dust and emissions from construction and demolition. - www.regen.net
The government has conceded that the army will have a wider presence at the 2012 London Olympics than previously expected, with defence secretary Philip Hammond claiming that ground-to-air missiles may be employed if necessary. Do you think the involvement of armed forces will help to guarantee the safety of athletes and visitors?
THE organising committee of the London Olympics last night denied a newspaper story that Sebastian Coe said “F*** ’em” after being asked about objections from Wales and Scotland to the idea of a GB Olympic football team. The committee said it had consulted its lawyers. Lord Coe was reported by the London Paper to have made the remark during a reception hosted by the British Olympic Association (BOA) at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham. The story in the London Paper yesterday said: “Team GB will have a football team for the 2012 Games, Seb Coe has confirmed, whatever opposition is put up by the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. - www.walesonline.co.uk
Advertising firm threatens to terminate £1bn train and tube station contract months before London 2012 gamesAdvertising firm CBS Outdoor is to launch a legal action against Transport for London over the costs of running the advertising network throughout the London Underground (LUL) and could terminate the £1bn contract that covers 33,000 poster sites in 275 stations and 88,000 panels in trains before the start of the Olympics.The contract was expected to run until 2015, however, CBS Outdoor has found it extremely difficult to monetise the contract on the terms agreed when it won the pitch. One of the difficulties has been the huge investment costs required to upgrade the London Underground with digital screens.CBS, which won the pitch to handle the contract in 2006 and is one of the largest advertising deals in the world, is threatening to terminate the contract in March next year unless terms are renegotiated by LUL.It is not clear what impact the potential termination of the contract – which covers 33,000 poster sites in 275 stations and 88,000 panels in trains – will have just months before the London Olympics are set to start.CBS Outdoor said on Thursday that it has given notice to LUL that it intends to terminate the contract on 31 March 2012 unless it returns to the negotiating table to hammer out a new deal.CBS claims that LUL, and its parent company Transport for London have "refused to acknowledge" that changes implemented on the underground system have triggered an "adverse event" clause in the contract that have caused "massive cost over-runs" by the outdoor advertising company.The company claims that "massively delayed" construction projects made it impossible for CBS Outdoor to "gain the access and approvals necessary to complete its upgrade work in a timely fashion and within budget".CBS said it has been seeking to claim costs since 2007 and has now been forced to turn to high court action to seek to terminate the contract and receive an unspecified amount of compensation for damages."For several years CBS Outdoor has sought to engage London Underground in fruitful, bona fide discussions to address the extraordinary costs and delays attributable to them," said Richard Sauer, executive vice president and general counsel for CBS. "CBS Outdoor is seeking a fair and equitable resolution of this matter".• To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".• To get the latest media news to your desktop or mobile, follow MediaGuardian on Twitter and Facebook.AdvertisingMedia businessLondonOlympic Games 2012Mark Sweneyguardian.co.ukandcopy; Guardian News and Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms and Conditions | More Feeds
FA chief executive Brian Barwick says a Great Britain football team will compete at the London Olympics in 2012
The independent London Olympics website has launched 12 Sport on Facebook. - 12 Sport on Facebook
The first set of Olympic Rings, the symbol of the Olympic Games, will be unveiled this week at London’s St Pancras Station, 18 months ahead of the opening of the London Olympics 2012. - www.HealthyLives.co