London riled as Olympic bids are handed in
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Spanish officials are set to renege on a promise to the Football Association not to use tomorrow&#39;s friendly with England in the BernabÃ©u Stadium to promote Madrid&#39;s 2012 Olympic bid, a rival to London&#39;s.
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The expense of securing the Olympic Games has become so daunting for host cities and nations that it is now time for Olympic officials to consider international cost-sharing
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The Evening Standard reports that London will use television coverage from Mondayâs parade of Olympians to convince Olympic leaders of Britainâs enthusiasm to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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Olympics organisers are to submit of one of the biggest planning applications in European history.
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The IOC's evaluation team arrives in London on Tuesday to inspect its bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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The national and international promotion of London&#39;s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games began yesterday with 200,000 people lining the streets of the capital and partying in Trafalgar Square.
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Racial abuse of black players during England&#39;s friendly against Spain has seriously jeopardised Madrid&#39;s chances of staging the Olympics in 2012, according to members of the International Olympic Committee.
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LONDON, Nov. 15. - Britainâs middle distance great Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 bid committee, insisted that the English capital has closed ground on leading rivals Paris and Madrid in its bid to host the Olympic Games.
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The cost of staging the 2012 Olympics could soar to nine billion pounds - nearly four times the 2.35 billion estimated by London ahead of sealing the bid.
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More than Â£100million profit is expected to be made from staging the 2012 Olympic Games in London, it has been claimed. The estimate forms part of the London 2012 bid book handed into the International Olympic Committee on Monday.
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The British Olympic Association is considering a move to bring a protest of Aaron Peirsol's gold medal victory in the 200-meter backstroke before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Five cities vying to stage the 2012  Summer Games reveal their hands this week as Olympic chiefs  scrutinize their plans for holding the world's greatest  sporting extravaganza.
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The disgraceful scenes which marred last night &#39; s England friendly international in Madrid could not have come at a worse time for the Spanish capital&#39;s bid for the 2012 Games.
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London's four rivals to host the 2012 Olympics tell BBC Sport why they deserve to win.
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The report criticised the spread of venues, which made athletes&#39; travelling distances among the longest of any bidding city. The IOC was impressed by the Olympic Park in the lower Lea Valley.
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Tens of millions of dollars pouring into Olympic bid campaigns. PR companies, lobbyists and spin doctors working frantically. Rumors of dirty tricks swirling behind the scenes.
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Paris 2012 organisers have been accused of breaking Olympic bid rules by using French embassies to promote the city. Madrid 2012 have made an official protest to the International Olympic Committee&#39;s (IOC) ethical commission.