Articles tagged ‘2012’

Design for London’s Olympic Stadium unveiled

By Chris | November 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

Britain’s Olympic Delivery Authority today unveiled the design for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium which will be the centre piece of the Olympic park that is being built over the next five years at Stratford in East London.
Its going to be an 80,000 seater although once the games have finished 55,000 will be removed [...]

 

Cost of London Olympics just keeps rising

By Chris | March 15th, 2007 | Add a Comment »

The government today announced their revised budget for the cost of the 2012 Olympics, £9.3billion up from the original £2.4billion they said just over 18 months ago. The big questions are can they stick to that budget over the next five years, and you can pretty much guarantee they can’t, and who will end up [...]

 

2012 to be the greenest games

By Chris | January 23rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »

2012 days to go to 27 July 2012 and the start of the London Olympics and Tony Blair and the organisers have been trumpeting what a green games London’s will be, better than any previous we’re told. I’m always sceptical when someone like Blair starts waving the flag for something, there’s always a hidden agenda [...]