Olympics win legal fight for land
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Organisers of the London 2012 Olympics have won a legal battle allowing them to purchase land for the site.
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Â· Wiltshire town courts country's Olympic team  Â· Leisure centre could be put at athletes' disposal
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (CP) - Kyle Shewfelt&#39;s fight for an Olympic bronze medal in the vault isn&#39;t over. Canadian gymnastics officials have submitted an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, challenging
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The Russian company wins a legal skirmish.
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A massive injection of cash for grassroots sport and a new national stadium for athletics are included in a multi-million pound legacy promised by London&#39;s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland made that announcement today. Hamm received gold in the gymnastics all-around at the Athens Olympics.
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Paul Hamm stated his case for the all-around gold medal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. Now the waiting begins.
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Olympic gymnastics champion Paul Hamm has appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne in a bid to retain the gold medal he won in the menâs all-round competition in Athens.
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THE struggle for the soul of the Olympics is still not won, not in a thousand years and more. On Wednesday, token events took place on the sacred site where the original Games took place in Ancient Olympia hundreds of years before Christ.
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TRENTON  The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Mount Laurel Township Council was within its rights to seize land from a developer in order to preserve open space.
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LAS VEGAS - The reclamation project is still a work-in-progress - there's this Olympic gold medal thing next summer - and minefields aplenty await. But the United States did all it could do here in what has become its own quadrennial showcase, crushing Puerto Rico, 135-91, yesterday to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
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The demolition of homes in part of Beijing earmarked for massive development ahead of next year's Olympics was carried out fairly and legally, an official said on Wednesday, defending a system much criticized by rights groups.
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Just under 15,000 people were moved from their homes to make way for the venues of the Beijing Olympics and all moved voluntarily with compensation, officials said on Tuesday, countering rights groups' allegations that hundreds of thousands had been evicted.
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NEW YORKâS rush to build an Olympic stadium has provoked a clash between the cityâs billionaire mayor and a multimillionaire cable television tycoon that has thrown the Big Appleâs bid for the 2012 Games into jeopardy.
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THE defence of Gold Fields against a hostile $8.1 billion (Â£4.3 billion) bid from Harmony Gold Mining, its smaller South African rival, was dealt a further blow last night when a US court threw out its legal challenge to the takeover.
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In a victory for private property rights, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that local governments can't seize land against the owner's wishes simply because the property is underused.
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TORONTO (CP) - The province's court of appeal is upholding Ontario's right to negotiate with Six Nations protesters who continue to occupy a former housing development site in Caledonia.