PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown (pictured) today claimed that if a British football competed at the 2012 London Olympics it would not jeopardise the independence of the Home Countries.

"Sebastian Coe and I have talked to Alex Ferguson about the possibility that he might want to be the

  A FINAL decision on where the shooting should take place at the London 2012 Olympics still has to be made, Games officials admitted today.

A meeting of the Olympic Board - made up of London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, British Olympic Association

  A FINAL decision on where the shooting should take place at the London 2012 Olympics still has to be made, Games officials admitted today.

A meeting of the Olympic Board - made up of London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, British Olympic Association

June 24 - Britain's six "favourite" Olympic champions will feature on new National Lottery scratchcards aimed at raising money for the London 2012 Games, it was announced today.

Sebastian Coe, Steve Redgrave, Kelly Holmes, Jonathan Edwards, Sally Gunnell and Duncan Goodhew will

Coe said: “It is an honour to be included in the list of people’s favourite Olympic Champions and particularly

 JUNE 25 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, said today that it is important how

But Coe, voted yesterday one of Britain's six favourite Olympians of all-time for his consecutive 1500

Coe was commenting on a report published earlier this week by global accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers

Coe, though, is growing optimistic that the sport he is most closely associated with is beginning to

Coe said: "I think those things are beginning to happen but they are not going to happen overnight because

 JUNE 25 - JOHN WHITAKER (pictured) today became the oldest person named in Britain's team for the 2008 Olympics when he was announced as part of a four-strong show jumping squad that also includes his brother, the fifth time they will have appeared in the Games together.

Olympics having made their debuts in Los Angeles in 1984, when their team-mates included Sebastian Coe

 JUNE 25 - SEBASTIAN COE, the chairman of London 2012, is set to walk into the row over the proposed

 Coe is visiting Northern Ireland just as a high level briefing paper on whether the controversial

The topic is bound to dominate tonight's meeting, where Coe will appear alongside the 1972 Olympic pentathlon

  JUNE 25 - THE GOVERNMENT admitted today that Zimbabwe will still be able to take part in the 2012 Olympics in London despite their cricket team being banned today from touring in England next year.

In the end it needed some careful diplomacy from London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe to ensure that the

Coe will be determined that an international political row will not be allowed to overshadow London in

Coe is a revered figure within the Olympic movement partly because of his refusal to heed calls from

 SIMON CLEGG (pictured), effectively demoted earlier this year after being replaced as chief executive, today announced he was leaving the British Olympic Association (BOA) after nearly 20 years.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: "Simon's experience, particularly in terms of preparing

whose poor record on doping has badly damaged athletics, according to London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

Last month Coe, a vice-president of the International Association of Athletics Federations and a two-time

 JUNE 26 - THE GOVERNMENT have said that unless Northern Ireland builds the proposed stadium on the site of the former Maze Prison then it will lose the chance to host football matches during the 2012 Olympics.

Coe, meanwhile, adroitly avoided getting dragged into the row over the Maze when he appeared a special

 AUGUST 30 - CHRISTINE OHURUOGU (pictured) admitted today for the first time that she would like to be the face of the 2012 Olympics.

” Ohuruogu's coach Lloyd Cowan has urged Sebastian Coe and his London 2012 colleagues to ignore

 AUGUST 31 - DAVE COLLINS will be sacked as the performance director of UK Athletics tomorrow and replaced by Dutchman Charles van Commenee (pictured), it was reported today.

backing of several influential figures within British athletics, including London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe

 AUGUST 9 - SIR STEVEN REDGRAVE (pictured), Britain's five-time Olympic rowing champion, has today been installed by the bookmakers as the favourite to light the flame at London 2012.

Sebastian Coe, the two-time Olympic 1500 metres champion and London 2012 chairman, is their 10/1 second

  AUGUST 9 - SEBASTIAN COE'S (picture) father Peter, the inspirational coach to the double Olympic champion during his running career, died today aged 88 after a short illness.

  Coe, chairman of London 2012, had delayed his arrival at the Beijing Games in order to spend time

Coe arrived in Beijing early this morning, and his father died several hours later.  

Coe had lost his mother, Angela, in 2005.  

"He was picked up and put in prison and really badly knocked around," said Coe junior.  

Coe said recently: "The old theory was that to run 800m you had to run 100 miles a week.