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London 2012 signs up Gymnova as 28th sponsor

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April 6 - London 2012 today signed-up its 28th domestic sponsor when they announced that Gymnova will be the Official Gymnastics Equipment Supplier and they will provide all the equipment needed for the gymnastics events at London 2012.

  Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman, said: "This demonstrates the length and breadth


Bubka joins four other Olympic medallists to lead new IOC Commission

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year April 2 - Sergey Bubka (pictured) has been appointed chairman of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) new Entourage Commission, it has been announced.

for the Presidency of the IAAF next year, which could pit him against London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe


Clancy impressed by London 2012 Velodrome

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April 1 - World champion Ed Clancy (pictured) today saw the progress being made on the Olympic Velodrome as London 2012 officials claimed they remained on on target to meet all their major construction milestones this year.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: "Seeing the Velodrome take shape is a great


Basketball Arena for London 2012 demonstrates nationwide involvement in Games

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March 30 - The 12,000 seat £60 million London 2012 Basketball Arena is coming out of the ground on the Olympic Park with the first of 20 ten storey high steel arches already lifted into place.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: "This is another example of a superb sporting


London 2012 volunteers could win tickets to opening ceremony dress rehearsal

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March 30 - Thousands of people could get an exclusive preview of the London 2012 Opening Ceremony as a reward for giving time under a new nationwide scheme launched today by Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell (pictured).

It was launched at the Olympic Park in East London by Jowell, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

" Coe said: "Our vision is to use the power of the Games to inspire lasting change.



London 2012 Olympic Stadium raises to full height as lighting towers lifted into place

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 26 - Lighting towers have been lifted into place at the London 2012 Olympic Stadium 60 metres above where the track will be to take the flagship £537 million venue to its full height and another step closer to completion by the summer of 2011.

"   Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: “The Olympic Stadium will be



London 2012 win planning permission for Greenwich Park

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By Cathy Wood at Woolwich Town Hall March 23 - London bosses overcame a major hurdle tonight when plans to hold the equestrian and modern pentathlon events at Greenwich Park during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games got the go-ahead.

As the meeting drew to a close Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, as if moving up on the shoulder

Coe closed by urging the board to, "grant the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (

Coe said he was, "delighted with the outcome of the democratic process.

" Coe added London 2012 would abide by all the conditions set down by the Board.




Exclusive: Coe - Sullivan comments are like cracked record

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By Duncan Mackay in Whistler British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 19 - Sebastian Coe

But Coe, who is currently visiting the Winter Paralympics here, insisted that he has no doubt

Coe exclusively told insidethegames here: "This is becoming to sound like a cracked record.

To many observers, the turning point was when Coe persuaded Lamine Diack (pictured here with Coe), the

For a long time that threatened to fatally undermine London's bid to host the 2012 Olympics until Coe

But Coe remains confident that his promise to Diack will be kept.


Whitaker becomes latest banned Briton to overturn BOA doping bye-law

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By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year March 17 - Michael Whitaker (pictured) has had a ban from competing in the 2012 London Games because of a doping offence lifted by the British Olympic Association (BOA) - the 27th successful appeal against the controversial bye-law since it was introduced in 1992.

The rule, which while supported in Britain by the likes of London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe and International



Exclusive: Coe replaced as head of FIFA Ethics Commission

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By David Owen March 17 - Sebastian Coe (pictured) has been replaced as chairman of FIFA&rsquo

It is understood that Coe and Sepp Blatter, FIFA’s President, saw each other in recent weeks

in Vancouver and that the two men agreed it was unlikely Coe would have sufficient time to devote to

Insidethegames was first to predict that Coe might have to give up his Ethics Committee role in February

to join England World Cup bid February 2009: David Owen - The World Cup bid race could force Coe

to step down from FIFA September 2006: Important new FIFA role for Coe