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Qatar 2022 updates FIFA on World Cup plans

  • Football

By Andrew Warshaw in DohaDecember 10 - Senior officials from the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee (Q22) – organisers of the World Cup in 10 years' time – have met here with FIFA to update football's world governing body on strategy and infrastructure plans.

change, attracting more than 1,500 participants from 60 countries.Among the other speakers are Sebastian Coe


Youth Sport Trust chief to unveil new London 2012 legacy initiative

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun December 10 - Youth Sport Trust chief executive John Steele is set to unveil a major strand of his organisation's London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic legacy drive at the global sports conference Doha Goals in Qatar.

speakers at Doha Goals include London 2012 and British Olympic Associations (BOA) chairman Sebastian Coe



Wiggins and Ennis take top honours at 2012 SJA British Sports Awards

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun December 6 - Cyclist Bradley Wiggins and heptathlete Jessica Ennis today took the top male and female prizes respectively at the 2012 Sports Journalist Association (SJA) British Sports Awards at the Tower of London.

Sebastian Coe received the JL Manning Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Sport at the SJA Awards

the JL Manning Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Sport went to London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe


HOC President ruled to have "damaged reputation of Olympic Movement" after London 2012 ticket scandal

  • London 2012

By Duncan Mackay at the Palace Hotel in LausanneDecember 5 - Spyros Capralos, President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC), faces losing his position after he was heavily criticised by the International Olympic Committee's Ethics Commission for his role in the London 2012 ticketing scandal.

nbsp;Capralos had appeared alongside IOC President Jacques Rogge and London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe


Tom Degun: An emotional farewell to London 2012

  • Inside the Blogs

LOCOG annual (and last) Christmas media drinks.Heading the cast was London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

London 2012 chief executive Paul (now Lord) Deighton also in attendance.As is customary for the event, Coe

Sebastian Coe is now British Olympic Association chairman "It is you, asking the hard questions, that

made us a better organisation," Coe said to widespread approval in the room.He carried on in an emotional

Of course Coe was referencing the fact that he is now BOA chairman, but the joke was that it seemed almost


Coe to replace Pascoe as chairman of CSM next month

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackayDecember 4 - Sebastian Coe will officially take over as executive chairman of CSM

Coe will assume the new role when current chairman Alan Pascoe becomes President.It is Coe's second major

sponsorship and athlete representation to supporting bidding campaigns for world-class events," said Coe

Alan Pascoe (left) had worked with Sebastian Coe on the successful London 2012 bid "We are entering

our evolution at CSM Sport and Entertainment and I can think of no-one in the world better than Seb Coe

years including commissions, royalties and consulting income.Under the terms of the deal Chime paid Coe


Scotland First Minister claims Loch pollution problem is "critical" for Glasgow 2014

  • Glasgow 2014

By Duncan MackayDecember 2 - The polluted waters in Strathclyde Loch is one of the biggest threats to Glasgow 2014 hosting a successful Commonwealth Games, a key group led by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, has warned.

cancelledAugust 2012: Glasgow 2014 may move triathlon venue over pollution fearsAugust 2011: Coe


London 2012 chairman at forefront of campaign to protect press freedom in Britain

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackayNovember 28 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe has today joined some of Britian's top

Coe has signed letter, along with eight former Cabinet Ministers, 23 Peers and more than 60 MPs, including

in today's edition of The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian defending free speech.Conservative Peer Coe

the biggest threat to press freedom in Britain for more than 300 years critics, including Sebastian Coe

of any form of statutory control even if it is dressed up as underpinning," said the letter, which Coe


London Mayor hands over Olympic petal to India

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackayNovember 26 - London Mayor Boris Johnson today handed over the copper petal which represented India on the spectacular cauldron during the Olympics to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) during a visit to New Delhi. 

the third set of petals to be presented, with the first handed over by London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

to the British Olympic Association.Last week Coe presented one to Carlos Nuzman, the President of the


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New debate over future of 1980 Moscow Olympic Stadium after calls for it to be knocked down and rebuilt

  • Football

By Duncan MackayNovember 25 - There is a row in Russia over whether Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, which hosted the 1980 Olympics, should be demolished and rebuilt in time for the 2018 FIFA World Cup or saved because of its historic importance.

80,000-capacity arena, built in 1956 and refurbished for the 1980 Summer Olympics, where Sebastian Coe

Sebastian Coe beat Steve Ovett to win the Olympic 1500m gold medal in the Luzhniki Stadium at the 1980


Bolt and Felix are 2012 World Athletes of the Year

  • Athletics

By Mike RowbottomNovember 24 - Usain Bolt and Allyson Felix were today named the Male and Female World Athletes of the Year for 2012.

Pérec.The World Journalist award was presented to Kenya's Elias Makori by double Olympic champion Sebastian Coe


Former London 2012 ticketing and hospitality manager joins Prestige Ticketing

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun November 24 - Paul Lemon, the former London 2012 ticketing and hospitality manager, has joined Prestige Ticketing as their new head of business development, it has been announced.

London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe helped unveil the Prestige Pavilion at the Olympic Park in Stratford


Exclusive: New Rio 2016 chief executive hoping he can follow Deighton blueprint to make Games success

  • Rio 2016

By Duncan Mackay at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de JaneiroNovember 21 - How London 2012 performed under chief executive Paul Deighton has set a new benchmark for how cities should organise the Olympics and Paralympics, claimed the man tasked with trying to ensure that Rio 2016 emulates their success.

Sochi in 2014, and that is a very different place to Rio de Janeiro.Deighton, together with Sebastian Coe