November 5 - The Met Office will be providing expertise, forecasts and data in the build up to and during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012, it has been confirmed.

competition venues, torch relay and main ceremonies as well as giving an overview of the "micro-climate

November 5 - The Met Office will be providing expertise, forecasts and data in the build up to and during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012, it has been confirmed.

competition venues, torch relay and main ceremonies as well as giving an overview of the "micro-climate

November 5 - Mont Blanc, Western Europe's tallest peak, and a centre-piece of Annecy's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics has shrunk by 45 centimetres (18 inches) in two years, experts said today following an official survey.

tenth, topographer Bernard Dupont said, adding that this could not be linked directly to the effects of climate

  Dupont said climate change indicators could only truly be measured on a scale of 30 years or

November 5 - Mont Blanc, Western Europe's tallest peak, and a centre-piece of Annecy's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics has shrunk by 45 centimetres (18 inches) in two years, experts said today following an official survey.

tenth, topographer Bernard Dupont said, adding that this could not be linked directly to the effects of climate

  Dupont said climate change indicators could only truly be measured on a scale of 30 years or

November 5 - Mont Blanc, Western Europe's tallest peak, and a centre-piece of Annecy's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics has shrunk by 45 centimetres (18 inches) in two years, experts said today following an official survey.

tenth, topographer Bernard Dupont said, adding that this could not be linked directly to the effects of climate

  Dupont said climate change indicators could only truly be measured on a scale of 30 years or

By Duncan Mackay   October 27 - Visa has today extended its $100 million (£61 million) deal as the exclusive payment service of the Olympics for eight years, through 2020, claiming the Games worldwide popularity has boosted its business and brand.

, up from $866 million (£528 million) in prior two Games, despite the difficult economic climate

By Duncan Mackay   October 27 - Visa has today extended its $100 million (£61 million) deal as the exclusive payment service of the Olympics for eight years, through 2020, claiming the Games worldwide popularity has boosted its business and brand.

, up from $866 million (£528 million) in prior two Games, despite the difficult economic climate

By Mike Rowbottom in London     By the time Kelly Holmes had been six months retired, and her daily elation at not having to go through the rigour of training had abated, she found herself asking a question: "Who am I now?"   Four years on, it's a question she is still in the process of answering, one that seems constantly to be throwing up further questions as she splits her energies across a range of commitments that include television appearances, speaking engagements, presidency of Commonwealth Games England, and her ongoing project On Camp With Kelly, which is is...

  "The climate for getting sponsorship is quite difficult at the moment, as we all know.

By Mike Rowbottom in London     By the time Kelly Holmes had been six months retired, and her daily elation at not having to go through the rigour of training had abated, she found herself asking a question: "Who am I now?"   Four years on, it's a question she is still in the process of answering, one that seems constantly to be throwing up further questions as she splits her energies across a range of commitments that include television appearances, speaking engagements, presidency of Commonwealth Games England, and her ongoing project On Camp With Kelly, which is is...

  "The climate for getting sponsorship is quite difficult at the moment, as we all know.

October 15 - Munich's Green Party has voted to back the German city's bid to host the 2018 Olympics, endorsing the environmental concept unveiled by organisers last week.

Roth of the German Sports Univesity in Cologne, said: "It is all very well talking about climate

By Duncan Mackay in Sochi   Sochi is the Russian Riviera, the brochures claim. Sand and pebble beaches stretch nearly 20 miles along the Black Sea coast where you can swim in the sea from April through until October, and ski on the nearby slopes from October into May. The semi-tropical weather allows for a lush terrain found nowhere else in Russia.   Once a sleepy Soviet-era ski resort in the Caucasus mountains, near Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's summer residence, it is now undergoing probably the biggest change that a Russian city has ever seen in peace-time. Everywhere you look there are cranes,...

given the 2014 Games are still five years away and could be held in a completely different economic climate

By Duncan Mackay in Sochi   Sochi is the Russian Riviera, the brochures claim. Sand and pebble beaches stretch nearly 20 miles along the Black Sea coast where you can swim in the sea from April through until October, and ski on the nearby slopes from October into May. The semi-tropical weather allows for a lush terrain found nowhere else in Russia.   Once a sleepy Soviet-era ski resort in the Caucasus mountains, near Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's summer residence, it is now undergoing probably the biggest change that a Russian city has ever seen in peace-time. Everywhere you look there are cranes,...

given the 2014 Games are still five years away and could be held in a completely different economic climate

What do the rugby sevens World Cup, tennis’s Sony Ericsson Championships and football’s Club World Cup have in common?   Right, all were – or are about to be – staged this year in the Middle East. Add to the list the Dubai World Cup, two Formula One grands prix and the European Tour’s season-ending golf championship and you get a sense of how important a venue for elite sport this politically sensitive but hydrocarbon-rich region has become.  

campaign platform, being used, I would guess, to try to assuage concerns about the Gulf state’s climate

Qatar’s campaign platform, being used, I would guess, to try to assuage concerns about the Gulf state’s climate

Throughout history great political, technological or artistic movement has come out of periods of great adversity. The United Nations from World War Two, satellite technology from the Cold War, great jazz from the Great Depression.   But in that adversity lies opportunity. The Olympic Movement has a once in a generation opportunity, I would say a responsibility, to better define and imbed its timeless values.  

see even greater uncertainty in a world struggling to tackle other great issues of their future like climate