April 13 - Should service providers such as advertising companies be willing to work for London 2012 and other for free, or should they expect to be paid as they would be by ordinary commercial client?

  It is a finely-balanced – and topical – question in the present economic climate.  

    By Duncan Mackay - 11 April 2009   Luol Deng may be the current pin-up boy of British basketball but that status is not exactly thrilling everyone. Last week, while covering the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission visit to Chicago, I took the opportunity to watch the Bulls take on the New Jersey Nets at the United Center.  

could be traded to another NBA team next season, something that looks unlikely in the current economic climate

could be traded to another NBA team next season, something that looks unlikely in the current economic climate

April 10 - Belfast's hopes of hosting matches during the Olympic football tournament in 2012 appear to be finally over after plans for a stadium on the former Maze Prison site were formally dropped.

site and we are committed to exploiting this potential to the full, particularly given the economic climate

April 9 - UK Athletics has been accused of jeopardising British athletes preparations for this year's World Championships with plans to relocate them from Loughborough University, Sebastian Coe's alma mater.

"In the current financial climate I really don’t want to be putting my house up for sale.  

“It’s not the end of the world it’s just that we might have to work in a different climate than we do

April 9 - UK Athletics has been accused of jeopardising British athletes preparations for this year's World Championships with plans to relocate them from Loughborough University, Sebastian Coe's alma mater.

"In the current financial climate I really don’t want to be putting my house up for sale.  

“It’s not the end of the world it’s just that we might have to work in a different climate than we do

By John Steele - 13 March 2009     The end of March signals the end of UK Sport’s Beijing cycle of investment and the beginning of the new Olympiad that takes us through to London 2012. The investment of the past four years has born incredible fruit, with the amazing Olympic and Paralympic success of Beijing accompanied by a shift in attitude and approach across the elite sports landscape.      

that change in three dimensions - their athlete performance but also their governance and the overall climate

that change in three dimensions - their athlete performance but also their governance and the overall climate

March 11 - London Mayor Boris Johnson (pictured) today offered foreign companies up to a year's free rent in a bid to encourage them to invested in the capital during the build-up to London 2012.

flexible and adapt to the changing market conditions by helping investors take advantage of the current climate

MARCH 6 - THE International Olympic Committee (IOC) has delayed seeking bids for the United States broadcast rights to future Games for “some time” and may wait until the economy improves, NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol claimed today.

Carrion, the chairman of the IOC's Finance Commission, that they were prepared to wait until the economic climate

MARCH 3 - SCOTLAND and Wales have abandoned plans for a joint bid to host the 2016 European Championships because of the current economic crisis, they have said.

In the current economic and financial climate, this is unaffordable."  

MARCH 3 - DAWN FRASER (pictured), one of Australia's greatest ever swimmers, today called for next year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi to be cancelled following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.

"You wouldn't be sending away in this climate.''  

  A JOINT proposal from Belgium and the Netherlands to host the 2018 World Cup should not be ruled out against England and Russia, the leader of the bid said today.

"But small countries have a lot of possibilities, especially in the curent financial climate.  

topics: Vision, legacy and communication; overall concept of the Olympic Games; political and economic climate

 FEBRUARY 9 - THE World Life Saving Championships, due to be held in Newquay next year and billed as the biggest event to be held in Britain before t he London 2012 Olympics, are in serious danger of being moved.

the huge infrastructure required for an event with 4,000 competitors, all at a time when the economic climate