JULY 14 - BRITAIN today named a team of 48 athletes for the Olympics in Beijing next month and still hope that world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe (pictured) will recover in time to compete.

"There will be fierce competition from the rest of the world and in a testing climate as well.  

 JULY 14 - BRITAIN today named a team of 48 athletes for the Olympics in Beijing next month and still hope that world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe (pictured) will recover in time to compete.

"There will be fierce competition from the rest of the world and in a testing climate as well.  

 JULY 24 - IT WOULD be worrying if the Olympics in Beijing next month did not produce positive drugs samples, the head of UK Sport's anti-doping group said today.

Indeed, from an anti-doping perspective, if they were totally clean, particularly given the current climate

 JULY 26 - LONDON 2012 sustainability partner, EDF Energy, is showing its support for ParalympicsGB tonight by sponsoring an athlete Expo and celebratory dinner in Birmingham.

The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon is encouraging runners to take part in the ‘Race Against Climate

support this event and use inspirational Paralympic athletes to highlight our commitment to tackling climate

  RIO DE JANEIRO today revealed additional details of the city’s plan to follow London and host the 2016 Olympics.

"In the current economic climate, Brazil is well positioned to achieve this as a result of its long-term

 AUGUST 29 - ADRIAN MOORHOUSE (pictured), the last Briton to win an Olympic swimming title before Rebecca Adlington, today helped Leeds launch a guide to its sports facilities on offer to countries looking to set up a pre-Games training.

by more targeted work with those countries where there are differences with the UK in areas such as climate

  SUPPLIERS are being sought for approximately 2,000 mature and semi-mature trees to form the "roots" of the 100 hectare park that will provide a colorful setting and festival atmosphere for the London 2012 Olympics and a new green space for people and wildlife in legacy.

create habitats for wildlife and help ‘future proof’ the park and surrounding built-up areas against climate

 JUNE 27 - IT HAS been claimed today that the Queen has had a £4 million request to repair Buckingham Palace turned down because the money is needed to help fund the 2012 Olympics.

told insidethegames: "We believe this is a reasonable settlement, in the context of the wider economic climate

  AUGUST 14 - THE latest poll on the London Olympics has claimed that only 15 per cent of Britons think that hosting the Games will be good for Britain's reputation.

"This sentiment is probably reinforced by the current economic climate.  

 JULY 3 - BRITAIN is either in for a bumper crop of gold medals at the Beijing Olympics next month or a meagre amount, depending on which of the latest prediction surveys you want to believe.

per capita, total population, political structure (democratic, authoritarian, military or communist), climate

 MAY 8 - CHINA is being tipped to top the medals table at the Beijing Olympics but Britain also has reason to feel hopeful as it approaches London 2012, research released today by Sheffield Hallam University said.

"If China were to achieve 46 gold medals, then, in the current climate, that would be more than enough

MAY 2 - EDF ENERGY is to launch a multimedia campaign utilising the company’s sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on Monday.

juxtaposes the personal challenge for athletes with the challenge individuals face in the race against climate

The campaign is linked to our Climate Commitments.”

  MUSEUM OF LONDON archaeologists have uncovered the skeletons of early Eastenders buried in graves dating back to the Iron Age on the London 2012 Olympic Park, it was revealed today.

the topography of the site to build a picture of how the land and waterways have developed and how climate

  SCOTTISH WIDOWS is planning to spend £5 million on a series of television adverts next month to highlight its role as an Olympic sponsor, it was reported today.

Hoban said: “Our sponsorship of the Olympics is going to be especially helpful in the current economic climate

  BRITISH towns and cities should not take for granted that overseas teams will prepare for the 2012 Olympics here, if the experience of Beijing is anything to go by.

"The climate is nearly identical, we can work off the jet lag and just the entire surroundings were good