Olympics



British lifetime Olympic ban rule to be tested at CAS

By Duncan Mackay in London

Colin Moynihan_after_BOA_Board_November_16_2011November 16 - The British Olympic Association is to defend its controversial bylaw which prevents drugs cheats from representing Team GB in the Games to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) asked them to scrap it, chairman Colin Moynihan revealed today.


Controversy over Forman's Olympic entertainment plans

By Tom Degun

Lance Forman_with_view_of_Olympic_StadiumNovember 15 - Local residents in the Fish Island area of Stratford are angry at Lance Forman's plan to build a second corporate Olympic venue, at a cost of £10 million ($16 million/€11.7 million), which will include a giant sofa and the UK's largest television screen that will be around 100 foot in width.