Summer Olympics


Exclusive: Coe - Sullivan comments are like cracked record

By Duncan Mackay in Whistler
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

March 19 - Sebastian Coe (pictured), the chairman of London 2012, has claimed that comments from critics that the Olympic Stadium should be turned over to a football club after the Games and that if it used to stage athletics it is waste of public money are beginning to sound like "a cracked record".










Tulsa still hoping to bid for 2020 Olympics

By Duncan Mackay

March 5 - Tulsa officials are pushing ahead with a proposed bid for the 2020 Olympics despite United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chief executive Scott Blackmun claiming that there are currently no plans to put forward a candidate to host the Games.



Mills admits 2005 Olympic bid had questions unanswered

By Mike Rowbottom at at the Legacy Lives 2010 Conference

March 4 - Sir Keith Mills (pictured), chief executive of the successful London 2012 bid, admitted today that his team had not worked out all the details to underpin one of the key commitments which earned them the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) vote in Singapore five years ago.