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Greenlight for Stratford City development

  • Archive News

May 17 - The Westfield Group announced today that it has reached an agreement with various Government and Olympic agencies to begin work on the £1.5 billion Stratford City development.

, Mayor of London; Sir Robin Wales, Mayor of Newham; Tessa Jowell, the Olympics Minister; Sebastian Coe


Coe gets guarantee from Mayor that stadium will have athletics legacy

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  AUGUST 11 - SEBASTIAN COE has persuaded London Mayor Boris Johnson that the Olympic Stadium must

But Coe has, reportedly, "leaned on" Johnson  to make sure that the promise he made to the International

wants to see a strong and sustainable legacy for the Olympic Stadium and is working closely with Seb Coe

An unnamed source told the Financial Times that Johnson was "leaned on" by Coe to stick to the original

Coe said: "The Mayor is right.  


Coe gets guarantee from Mayor that stadium will have athletics legacy

  • Athletics News

AUGUST 11 - SEBASTIAN COE has persuaded London Mayor Boris Johnson that the Olympic Stadium must be able

  But Coe has, reportedly, "leaned on" Johnson  to make sure that the promise he

wants to see a strong and sustainable legacy for the Olympic Stadium and is working closely with Seb Coe

quot;   An unnamed source told the Financial Times that Johnson was "leaned on" by Coe

  Coe said: "The Mayor is right.


Coe gets guarantee from Mayor that stadium will have athletics legacy

  • Athletics

  AUGUST 11 - SEBASTIAN COE has persuaded London Mayor Boris Johnson that the Olympic Stadium must

But Coe has, reportedly, "leaned on" Johnson  to make sure that the promise he made to the International

wants to see a strong and sustainable legacy for the Olympic Stadium and is working closely with Seb Coe

An unnamed source told the Financial Times that Johnson was "leaned on" by Coe to stick to the original

Coe said: "The Mayor is right.  


Thompson IS Britain's favourite Olympic athlete

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 JUNE 27 - DALEY THOMPSON, controversially overlooked by Camelot earlier this week as one of Britain's favourite Olympians, has come out overwhelmingly top in another survey published.

Sebastian Coe, the London 2012 chairman and a long-time close friend of Thompson(pictured), admitted

Kelly Holmes, the double Olympic champion from Athens, got nine per cent while Coe came fifth behind


Madrid 2016 bid could be hit by new Spanish racism row

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  AUGUST 11 - MADRID'S bid to follow London 2012 and host the 2016 Olympics could be affected after its basketball team were accused of racist gestures.

sportsmen and women was organised by the Autonomous Community of Madrid, the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE


London confirms mountain bike venue

  • London 2012

AUGUST 11 - HADLEIGH FARM near Southend has been announced as the new venue for the Olympic mountain bike competition in 2012, as first predicted on insidethegames in June.

course will be set against the stunning backdrop of the 700-year-old ruins of Hadleigh Castle .Sebastian Coe


Coe pays tribute to father

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 AUGUST 11 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured) today paid tribute to his father Peter, who died at the age of

delayed his arrival in Beijing to keep a bedside vigil on his father, who died just a few hours after Coe

Coe has decided to stay at the Olympics until he has to return home for the funeral and today travelled

Coe was on the course at 5.45am to watch the first of the 48 riders competing, led by New Zealand's Mark

As well as being his father, Peter Coe coached his son to unprecedented success on the track, guiding

Peter Coe was fiercely proud of what his son achieved on and off the track.  


Rogge visits Wimbledon

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 JUNE 28 - JACQUES ROGGE, the President of the International Olympic Committee, today visited Wimbledon, the venue for tennis in the 2012 London Games.

 He was accompanied by Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, and Sir Steven Redgrave, the five-time


Coe set to come under fresh Welsh pressure on mountain bike venue

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 JUNE 30 - WELSH First Minister Rhodri Morgan is set to ask Sebastian Coe officially today for the mountain

Morgan will now use the opportunity of Coe visiting Wales today to press their claims.  

Coe will be joined on his visit by senior figures from the Olympics 2012 and they will visit the new


Scotish Olympic legend throws support behind British football team

  • Football

 AUGUST 13 - SCOTLAND'S most successful Olympic female athlete, Shirley Robertson (pictured), has risked upsetting her countrymen and women by claiming that they should put aside their reservations and take part in a united football team at the 2012 Games.

Sebastian Coe and Colin Moynihan, the chairmans of London 2012 and the British Olympic Association respecitvely


Scotish Olympic legend throws support behind British football team

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 AUGUST 13 - SCOTLAND'S most successful Olympic female athlete, Shirley Robertson (pictured), has risked upsetting her countrymen and women by claiming that they should put aside their reservations and take part in a united football team at the 2012 Games.

Sebastian Coe and Colin Moynihan, the chairmans of London 2012 and the British Olympic Association respecitvely


Coe dashes Welsh hopes over mountain bike venue

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 JUNE 30 - SEBASTIAN COE, the chairman of London 2012, today told Wales that the mountain bike venue

, in South Wales, because of continuing problems over finding a suitable venue in Essex, will fail, Coe

But Coe, who met First Minister Rhodri Morgan during his visit, did re-assure the Welsh that they will

”  Coe said he “loved” being in Wales where sport was a “part of people&rsquo


Michael Whitaker denied fifth Olympic appearance

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 AUGUST 13 - MICHAEL WHITAKER (pictured) will miss making a fifth appearance in the Olympics after he was forced to pull out of the show jumping today because his horse has gone lame.

medal in the team event when he made his Olympic debut in 1984 when his team-mates included Sebastian Coe


Coe asks Scots to rise above funding row on 2012 and concentrate on the sport

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 MAY 1 - SEBASTIAN COE (pictured) said today that yesterday the organisers of the 2014 Commonwealth and

 In an interview published in The Scotsman today, Coe refuted the argument that Scotland has lost out

claimed it was wrong that £184 million of Scotland's Lottery money was going to the 2012 Games in London..Coe

Coe said: "It's wonderful that we have two of the three biggest sporting events in the world within two

Coe also claimed that foreign teams would base themselves in Scotland during the build-up to the 2012

Coe said he hoped London 2012 and Glasgow 2014 would help increase sports participation.He said: "A lot