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New designs for canoe venue unveiled

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  JULY 10 - THE designs for the White Water Canoe Centre to be used during the London 2012 Games and leave major sporting andleisure attraction in legacy were unveiled by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today.

Chairman of London 2012, Sebastian Coe, said: "Broxbourne will provide a world class venue   for Games


IOC approves London 2012 changes

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 JUNE 5 - LONDON'S proposed changes to venues in the Olympic Park were today approved by the International Olympic Committee.

Sebastian Coe , chairman of London 2012, said:  “We have always said that our intention was to


Colton announced as 2012 athletics competition manager

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  OCTOBER 7 - TERRY COLTON, who has overseen a number of successful world-class events in Birmingham, has been appointed as the London 2012 competition manager for athletics, it was announced today.

Colton is a graduate from Loughborough University, where he studied alongside Sebastian Coe, the chairman


Colton announced as 2012 athletics competition manager

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  OCTOBER 7 - TERRY COLTON, who has overseen a number of successful world-class events in Birmingham, has been appointed as the London 2012 competition manager for athletics, it was announced today.

Colton is a graduate from Loughborough University, where he studied alongside Sebastian Coe, the chairman


Coe promises Staffordshire companies will benefit

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 JULY 11 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured) has promised that companies in Staffordshire will benefit from London

Coe told the Stoke Senitel: "We take this very, very seriously.  


Pistorius is welcome at Olympics says Coe

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 JUNE 7 - OSCAR PISTORIUS (pictured) is welcome to compete at the Olympics Sebastian Coe, the chairman

controversially won a case against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), of which Coe

Coe said: "We accept the decision of the court and if he competes, if he is able to meet the qualifying



Burnham hopes handover ceremony marks change of attitude about London 2012

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 AUGUST 24 - CULTURE SECRETARY Andy Burnham said he believed the handing over of the Olympic flag to London will mark a shift in people's attitudes towards the 2012 Games.

Burnham echoed the sentiments of Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, that Britain will not try


British gold medallists arrive home and set sights on London 2012

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  AUGUST 25 - BRITAIN'S most successful Olympic for a century were met by the Prime Minister when they arrived back from Beijing at Heathrow Airport today.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012 who travelled back on the same flight at the team, said: "


Paralympic torch relay cancelled

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 JUNE 22 - THE first international Paralympics torch relay, which was to have included a stop in London, has been cancelled, it was reported today.

role of the blue-and-white track-suited Chinese flame attendants, whom London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe


ODA confirm team to develop Olympic Media Centre

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  JULY 11 - THE Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today confirmed it had selected a consortium of Carillion and Igloo to deliver the controversial £400 million International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre (IBC/MPC) for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and its legacy development.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: “Today’s announcement is a significant step towards


Coe visits Much Wenlock, birthplace of the Modern Olympics

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 JULY 12 - SEBASTIAN COE, the London 2012 chairman, has visited Much Wenlock to see for himself the place

 Coe hailed the Shropshire town as “home” of the Modern Games and said he had wanted to

Coe said: “Much Wenlock is effectively the home of so much of the thinking and the philosophy behind

”  Giles Birt, chairman of the Wenlock Olympian Society, described Coe’s visit as &ldquo


Yorkshire latest to offer to host mountain bike in 2012

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 JULY 12 - YORKSHIRE has offered to stage the mountain bike event during the 2012 Olympics despite officials already insisting that a venue will be found in Essex.

They have not been put off even by the fact that last week Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012


Thompson claims not to be bothered by Olympic lottery snub

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 JULY 14 - DALEY THOMPSON (pictured) claimed he is "not too fussed" at being overlooked in a poll to find Britain's favourite Olympic athletes, it was reported today.

Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman and a long-time close friend of Thompson's, admitted he was "


Bradstock's ambitious art project for 2012

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 JULY 15 - A FORMER top British javelin thrower, Roald Bradstock (pictured), is hoping to bind sport and art together in an ambitious project for London 2012.

London-born athlete competed for Britain in the 1984 - when he was a team-mate of 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe