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London 2012 unveils official uniforms for Games Makers and technical officials

  • London 2012

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Park in LondonNovember 22 - London 2012 have today unveiled the designs of the retro Games Maker uniform which will be worn by around 70,000 volunteers and 6,000 London 2012 staff during the Games along with the uniform which will be worn by around 4,500 technical officials.

2012 Games MakerOctober 2010: Midnight deadline for London 2012 Games Maker volunteersOctober 2010: Coe


London 2012 Games Makers to be trained at Hackney Community College

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunNovember 20 - Hackney Community College has been unveiled as the key training location for the London 2012 Games Maker volunteers that will work across the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

MakerOctober 2010: Midnight deadline for London 2012 Games Maker volunteersOctober 2010: Coe

"thrilled" as thousands flock to volunteer for London 2012September 2010: Coe wants London 2012


Bubka praises Coe on London securing 2017 World Championships

  • Athletics

By Duncan MackayNovember 19 - Sergey Bubka (pictured right) has congratulated London and Sebastian Coe

Bubka, who, along with Coe is a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations

 Coe and Bubka are widely seen as the leading candidates to replace Laminie Diack as President of

the IAAF and that it was not in Bubka's interests to see Coe lead a successful bid from London for 2017

I want to congratulate London and the whole bid team led by my colleague Seb Coe [the London 2017 bid

Doha congratulate London on "fair fight" after losing 2017 World Championships bidNovember 2011: Coe



Carl Lewis slams London 2017 victory as "backroom deal"

  • Athletics

American sprint and long jump legend Carl Lewis has accused London, whose bid was led by Sebastian Coe

made to a local reporter, while attending the Aspire4Sport conference here, Lewis (pictured above with Coe

congratulate London on "fair fight" after losing 2017 World Championships bid November 2011: Coe


Qatar set to announce new major bid after defeat to London 2017

  • Athletics

By Andrew Warshaw in DohaNovember 15 - Qatar are not used to losing bids for major sporting events but the man who led their failed attempt to land the 2017 World Athletics Championships is doing his best to put on a brave face.

storiesNovember 2011: Doha congratulate London on "fair fight" after losing 2017 bidNovember 2011: Coe


London 2012 Olympic Torch to be carried through Albert Square in EastEnders

  • London 2012

By Duncan MackayNovember 15 - A new stop on next year's Olympic Torch Relay has been announced - the fictional London Borough of Walford, the setting for the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. 

Today's announcement is a great addition to the Olympic Torch Relay Route," said Sebastian Coe, the chairman



Coe: We had to keep our nerve despite Doha "inducements"

  • Athletics

By Mike Rowbottom in Monte CarloNovember 11 - London 2017 bid President Sebastian Coe revealed after

Coe, a vice-president of the IAAF, also made the point that, for all the promises of financial support


London awarded 2017 World Athletics Championships after decisive victory

  • Athletics

Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) here today in what was another brilliant triumph for Sebastian Coe

most experts had predicted.The decision wrote yet another remarkable chapter into the lifestory of Coe

was only after the IAAF President Lamine Diack publicly threw his support behind the campaign that Coe

 Coe, the vice-president of the IAAF, had also been backed by Britain's Sport and Olympics Minister

It was very important that we did not get spooked on the issue of inducement," said Coe."

technology on its side, claims 2017 bid leaderNovember 2011: Olympic Stadium will be even better by 2017 Coe


London match Doha prize fund for 2017 World Athletics Championships

  • Athletics

From Mike Rowbottom in Monte CarloNovember 11 - London's 2017 world championship bidders revealed in their presentation to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council here that they would match the guarantee made by their rivals, Doha, to cover the prize fund of $7.2 million (£4.5 million/€5.3 million) for athletes at the event.

thanking the IAAF president, Lamine Diack, for his support in that quest.Leading the bid, Sebastian Coe

Six years after he had led the successful bid to secure the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics for London, Coe

reporter that if anyone ever saw him in a boat again, they had his full permission to shoot him.As Coe

later Redgrave won his fifth gold in Sydney.Referring to his own testing day in Singapore in 2005, Coe

World Championships bids finely balancedNovember 2011: Olympic Stadium will be even better by 2017 Coe


Mike Rowbottom: David Cameron leads the celebrations for London 2017 success

  • Inside the Blogs

of 2003, and then 2005, and then...Oh, it's too long and complicated to go into now.Lord Sebastian Coe

alongside it to broadcast sound - from that same room.It was fascinating to watch the body language as Coe

Those calculations will go on in private as far as Coe is concerned, given his ongoing commitment to

– died down, Coe changed the mood to one of calmer diplomacy."


Olympic Stadium will be even better by 2017 Coe claims

  • Athletics

strengthened London's campaign for the 2017 World Championships, according to the bid President, Sebastian Coe

that the Stadium could be used in any potential 2017 World Championships and future events thereafter, Coe

infastructure in a way that you'd be hard pushed to say that any Government or any city has done," said Coe