A venue used during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in London is set to become an emergency hospital to treat patients with coronavirus.
Playgrounds at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London have been shut to encourage social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Albanian sprinter Klodiana Shala has been found guilty of committing an anti-doping offence at London 2012 by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Romania’s chances of competing at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo took another hit again when it was announced that another of its London 2012 lifters had tested positive.
Two Romanians who won medals at London 2012 have come up positive for anabolic steroids in the retesting of samples by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Ukraine's Oleksiy Torokhtiy has been stripped of his men's 105-kilogram weightlifting title following a positive drug test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.
Almost exactly a decade ago - on 20 October 2009 - Thomas Cook was unveiled as the 23rd sponsor of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
Uzbekistan's Artur Taymazov has been stripped of the gold medal he claimed in the men's freestyle 120 kilograms wrestling event at London 2012 after he tested positive in retrospective analysis of samples by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Romanian weightlifter Florin Croitoru has been disqualified from the London 2012 Olympic Games after re-analysis of his samples from the event resulted in a positive test for three prohibited substances.
Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist Ruslan Nurudinov of Uzbekistan is one of a further two weightlifters to have been disqualified from London 2012 for doping.
Latvian long jumper Ineta Radevica and Armenian weightlifter Melanie Daluzyan have both been disqualified from the London 2012 Olympic Games following the retesting of their seven-year-old samples, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced today.
Azerbaijan's Valentin Hristov is facing being banned for life after he was caught doping for a third time in retests from London 2012 carried out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
A group of 12 Russian athletes, including the 2012 Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov, have been suspended for periods ranging from two to eight years after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled against them.
Davit Modzmanashvili has been stripped of the silver medal he claimed in the men's 120 kilograms freestyle wrestling event at the London 2012 Olympic Games after he was caught doping in retests carried out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Additional retests of samples from the London 2012 Olympic Games are being conducted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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