By Mike Rowbottom at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 31 - Ye Shiwen collected her second gold of the Olympics in the 200 metres individual medley here tonight – and emphatically denied that she has ever taken any performance-enhancing substances.

unbelievable".But Ye has been defended by figures at the Games including London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

By Tom DegunJuly 31 - Glasgow's bid for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games has received a boost after Prime Minister David Cameron threw his support behind it, following a visit to the Scottish city today after the early success of London 2012.

launch 2018 Youth Olympic Games bid with youngsters at its heartJune 2012: Exclusive - Sebastian Coe

very considerable consolation of the team bronze – not bad for a man who is six months older than Seb Coe

July 31 - London 2012 and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) are pushing to sell the remaining tickets available for this summer's Paralympics.

home in 2012 and I'm confident that the whole country will get behind them," London 2012 chairman Seb Coe

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 31 - More than two million people have already watched Olympic events during the first three days of London 2012, statistics published today revealed, giving a welcome boost to organisers under fire for empty seats at some venues.

sale in a bid to solve empty seat fiascoJuly 2012: Venues are "stuffed to the gunnels", insists Coe

Olympians.Indeed, in his personal rankings list he puts her in second place only behind his big mate Sebastian Coe

By David Owen at Greenwich Park in London July 30 - It was picture perfect; after all the angst, all the technical headaches, all the local anger – the people of Greenwich have probably sacrificed as much as anyone else in the cause of London's Olympic adventure – historic Greenwich Park emerged as an out-and-out star of the Olympics today.

who won his first gold medal at Los Angeles in 1984 and is actually six months older than Sebastian Coe

By Tom Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 30 - London 2012 has started to put thousands of tickets back on sale for the Olympics in an emergency bid to fill the empty seats at venues across the Games.

Jackie Brock-Doyle and London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe give a press conference at the Main Press CentreBrock-Doyle

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Warshaw at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 29 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

Let us put this in perspective," Coe told a press conference here."

Sebastian Coe faces a growing storm over blocks of empty seats at several London 2012 venuesHe predicted

Certainly this is not going to be an issue through the Games," said Coe."

a repetition of Beijing four years ago, has admitted the empty seats were "very disappointing" but Coe

soldiers watch Caroline Wozniacki at Wimbledon"I'm not sure naming and shaming is what we are into," Coe

Degun at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonJuly 29 - London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

She was a cast member," Coe explained today."

By Mike Rowbottom in The Mall in LondonJuly 28 - Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson said here today after watching Britain's world champion cyclist Mark Cavendish (pictured, on right) fail to earn a medal in the Olympic men's road race that there was a danger of home medal predictions becoming unrealistically inflated.

Robertson, after watching the finale of the race with other guests including the London 2012 chairman Seb Coe

Coe said the Opening Ceremony had not involved a conscious effort to cover the whole of British history

the winner of the road race, Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, had served a two-year doping ban, Coe

By Louisa GummerSome £27 million ($42.5 million/€34.5 million), 148 hours of rehearsals, but not one sequin.It's been a long, long time since that first audition way back in November. I have learned many things during that period. New phrases: for example "de-bibbing" (to remove the bib you are wearing) and "pre-stacking the vom" (filling up the entrance with the people who come on after you, before you then go in too). New skills: like taking a hedge down a flight of stairs in time to an insistent rhythm without falling over. New facts: granulated tea was invented by someone who...

The #savethesurprise hashtag starts appearing on volunteers tweets, is soon retweeted by Seb Coe and

Seb Coe is also spotted in Eton Manor and spends a lot of time signing things and chatting to people,

By David Owen at the Olympic Stadium in LondonJuly 27 - The London 2012 Olympics got off to the best possible start on the banks of the Thames last night, as artistic director Danny Boyle's breathtaking 100-minute Opening Ceremony captivated an 80,000 crowd packed with celebrities and VIPs.

bedecked with flags, to one end of the stadium, we were all welcomed by London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

the next two weeks, we will show all that has made London one of the greatest cities in the world," Coe

By Mike RowbottomThis was a stripped down Opening Ceremony, revealing the truth of so many elements of Britain's history that we take as read in a vivid and beautifully modulated show which presaged a coup de theatre which confounded all the – heated - discussion about Who Would Light The Olympic Cauldron.Not David Beckham. Nor Daley Thompson, nor Kelly Holmes, nor even five-times Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave, although all played their part in bearing the Torch on the final stages of long journey to this stadium in east London. Finally, the ancient Flame was transferred to its temporary resting...

everyone" appeared writ large on the audience.In his welcoming address, the London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

By Andrew Warshaw at the Olympic Stadium in LondonJuly 28 - For weeks, the rumour mill had been in full swing as the betting patterns changed, sometimes almost by the hour.

of seven Olympians to nominate a teenager to light the Olympic cauldronOr would Games boss Sebastian Coe