Canada Olympic chief would back 2024 bid

University of Manchester's John Rylands LibraryGerry Pennell, the former CIO of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), has joined the University of Manchester as its new director of IT. Pennell studied at the university as an ...

The Public Accounts Committee's post-Games review described the venue security as a 'notable blemish' on the London 2012 Olympic Games PA ☛ 24 April 2013 | Helen Gilbert G4S has once again come under fire for its failure to provide enough ...

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Assistant Commissioner and National Olympics Security Coordinator for London 2012, Chris Allison, delivering lecture at the Civil Defence Auditorium. Doha: The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Assistant ...

Viewd by: 238 Not rated yet Chris Allison during the lecture. 14 May 2013 The Ministry of Interior (MoI) organised a lecture on the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics to understand the measures adopted by the UK to hold the mega sporting event.

London, May 9 (IANS) Germany's Thomas Bach is likely to announce his candidature for president of International Olympic Committee to succeed Jacques Rogge.Bach, 58, won a team foil gold in the 1976 Olympic fencing event. The German lawyer and IOC ...

This Monday, the 8th, a delegation of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), counting more than 30 people, began a series of visits to competition venues and the Olympic Village, in addition to the specific meetings with the Rio 2016 Organising ...

TWO high-profile Scots who worked on London's Olympic Games last year have joined the team charged with delivering the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The pair are Sir Craig Reedie, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, and Sir ...

Even before the Olympics and the Paralympics had taken place, the stated aim of London 2012 organisers was to "inspire a generation". The exploits of Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis, David Weir and the other stars of an amazing summer of sport ...

LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The MCC World Cricket committee has backed the inclusion of Twenty20 cricket in the Olympics but acknowledges it will take a great deal of effort for that to happen, the organisation's advisory body said on Wednesday.