By Tom DegunApril 21 - Surrey will be hosting more Olympic and Paralympic training camps than any other county in the South East region of England with a total of 31 teams committed to using its training facilities to prepare for London 2012.

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Rudisha will become the first world 800 metres record holder to run in the United States since Sebastian Coe

Coe, who held the record from 1979 to 1997, won silver in the 800m at the 1984 Los Angeles Games before

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By Mike RowbottomApril 19 - Daley Thompson's gold medal-winning decathlon performance from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics has been voted as athletics fans' favourite Games performance from over the last 60 years, according to an online poll by UK Athletics.

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By Tom Degun at Kew Gardens in LondonApril 18 - With exactly 100 days to go to the start of the Olympics, world-famous aerobatic display team the Red Arrows will perform a nine-ship flypast in Big Battle formation to mark the Opening Ceremony, it was revealed today.

will appear on branding and publications in the run up to, and during, the Games.Meanwhile, Sebastian Coe

will be visible to aircraft passengers on the nearby Heathrow Airport flight path.While visiting Kew, Coe

role but a veritable galaxy have contributed in various supporting roles to leading man Lord Sebastian Coe

He cites an ongoing feud with Lord Coe as the reason for his absence from the 2012 front line team, though

He also said no to a request to appear with Coe earlier this year on a BBC radio programme about great

And Coe went to Ovett's aid when the defeated champion collapsed, with a virus, at the end of the 800m

(in which Coe again took silver), ensuring Ovett received medical attention after being left alone in

representing 93 countries, have been signed for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, Sebastian Coe

cultural exchange, education and engagement alongside provisions for international sporting teams, Coe

recognised during the bid as an essential part of an athlete's preparation for the London 2012 Games," said Coe

By Duncan Mackay in MoscowApril 15 - Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has turned down the opportunity to attend the Olympics in London and also to take part in a major fundraising dinner on the eve of the Games.

been personally invited to attend the Opening Ceremony on July 27 by London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

By Mike RowbottomLike the two winners of the first London Marathon in 1981, Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen, David Bedford and Hugh Brasher will be hand-in-hand during next week's 32nd running of the event. Not literally, perhaps – but figuratively.Bedford, who joined the London Marathon in 1986, takes the final step this year towards relinquishing the position of race director which he has carried out so spectacularly well in succession to Brasher's father Chris, who established the event with John Disley and stepped up to the position of Life President in 1995.

"It was done appallingly and I imagine when [London 2012 chairman] Seb [Coe] made the peace with the

By Duncan Mackay in MoscowApril 14 - The world got its first look at the early plans of the five cities bidding for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics when they each made 10 minute presentations at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly here today.

Olympic experience of your lives," Alejandro Blanco, the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE

 By Mike RowbottomApril 12 - David Rudisha (pictured left), the 800 metres world champion and record holder who will set out in pursuit of a third consecutive Samsung Diamond League title when he competes in the season's opener in Doha on May 11, has another ambition for London 2012.

"I want to make Lord Coe proud," the Kenyan said to a teleconference arranged by the International Association

next month to his goal of adding an Olympic medal to his World gold.Having met and become friends with Coe

I have watched videos of the races Wilson Kipketer and Sebastian Coe [where in], especially when they

I suggest Lord Coe might hire him to pose then same question to the citizens of the capital as the main

By Duncan MackayApril 9 - Tokyo's team bidding to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics will be bolstered by Ai Shibata, one of the most successful swimmers of her generation, when they make their first international presentation in Moscow later this week.

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By Duncan MackayApril 7 - Spain has pledged that it is fully behind the fight against drugs in an attempt to end doubts that the country is soft on the issue, a perception that undermined Madrid's bid to host the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.

rivals Baku, Doha, Istanbul and Tokyo.Alejandro Blanco, the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE

By David GoldApril 7 - A week of events celebrating the involvement of Britain's universities in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement will take place from April 30 to May 7.

nbsp;during the Games.The institution has an illustrious pedigree, featuring London 2012 chairman Seb Coe

By Duncan MackayApril 4 - A special Olympic Legends Underground Map to celebrate London 2012 hosting the Games is to be reprinted to include Fanny Blankers-Koen, winner of four gold medals the last time the event was staged in Britain, Transport for London announced today.

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