Call for Olympic spending checks
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Opposition politicians call for tighter control on spending for the 2012 Olympics after the BBC revealed spiralling costs.
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America&#39;s US Olympic Committee is contesting a ruling which could cost Michael Johnson and his 4x400m relay colleagues gold medals from the Sydney Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece  -- Olympic organizers announced that more than half of available tickets (3.1 million) to the Games have been sold, almost reaching the budget for purchases.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 -- Worried about the potential for a terrorist catastrophe, Greece is spending about $1.5 billion on security for the Olympic Games. The biggest threats so far? Foreign journalists and a Canadian guy dressed in a tutu.
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The bill for staging London&#39;s 2012 Olympics could still rise as the final cost of venues is factored in, the government&#39;s spending watchdog warned Friday.
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The final cost of the Athens Olympics has soared to about â¬9bn (Â£6.2bn), at least â¬2.4bn more than estimated, the Greek government said yesterday.
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A revised budget for the 2012 Olympics will be announced "soon", a top civil servant tells a committee of MPs.
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Inspectors will assess London&#39;s bid for the 2012 Olympics during a visit to the capital early in 2005. The International Olympic Committee said its evaluation commission will be in London from 16 to 19 February.
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The IOC's evaluation team are in London to begin inspecting its Olympic bid.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday &#151; about &#36;11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history. The 2000 Sydney Games cost &#36;1.5 billion and the 1996 Atlanta Games &#36;1.72 billion.
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Turin's Olympic Committee needs to raise  another 65 million euros from sponsors to meet targets for the  2006 Winter Games, its chief said on Monday after reports of a  huge budget gap had sparked a national political row. Turin's  mayor ordered an audit of Olympic spending after organizers  said they had a 180 million-euro ($227 million) hole in their  books due to sponsorship shortfalls and lower sales forecasts.
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The 2004 Olympics haven&#39;t even ended yet, but German sports officials and policy-makers are already starting to moan and groan about the German teamâs performance in Greece and are demanding structural changes in the way Olympic hopefuls should be
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The fat &quot;Bid Books&quot; for the 2012 Summer Olympics are in the money-grubbing hands of the International Olympic Committee.
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Latest estimates of the costs of hosting the Athens Olympics put them at up to $10bn - a huge amount for a small country like Greece, once the poorest in the EU.
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Whitehall's sleaze watchdog is urged to launch an inquiry into MPs expenses, in the wake of recent scandals.
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The total cost of the Athens Olympics may exceed &#36;14.6 billion, according to Greece's 2005 budget submitted to parliament Thursday.
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The British government is financially exposed over the 2012 London Olympics and should put in place a strong monitoring system to make sure preparations do not fall behind schedule, lawmakers said on Tuesday.