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Olympic Stadium sells out fast for Bolt's London return

April 19, 2013 08:30
By Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of tickets for Usain Bolt's return to the scene of his London Olympic victories sold out within 75 minutes of going on sale on Friday, organisers said. Bolt, who won three sprint golds in London last year to match his Beijing haul, will compete in the IAAF Diamond League meeting on July 26-27. Organisers are billing the event the "Anniversary Games" - a year after the Olympics.

Olympics: West Ham to take over London stadium - club

March 22, 2013 07:16
English Premier League football club West Ham United are to become the main tenants of London's Olympic Stadium, it was announced on Friday. The 80,000 capacity stadium in east London, which hosted the athletics events and the ceremonies last year's Olympics and Paralympics, will be converted to a 54,000-seater venue in time for the 2016-2017 football season. "It's fantastic for everyone at West Ham United that at last all the club's hard work over the past three years has paid off," the club's joint chairmen David Sullivan and David Gold said.

Olympics: West Ham to move to Olympic Stadium - report

March 22, 2013 06:16
West Ham United football club are to become the main tenants of London's Olympic Stadium, the BBC reported on Friday ahead of an official announcement expected later in the day. The long-term future of the £429 million ($648-million, 503-million-euro) venue in Stratford, east London, was supposed to have been decided before last year's Games but a series of legal challenges have led to a drawn-out process.

West Ham move secures Olympic Stadium's status

March 21, 2013 20:30
By Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) - Football club West Ham United will move into the Olympic Stadium from 2016 thanks to a deal on Friday that makes the venue a lasting part of London's sporting scene but drew criticism over the cost to taxpayers. The agreement should settle a long-running saga over the future of the stadium, built with 430 million pounds of public money and the centrepiece of last summer's London Games.

Athletics: London considers Commonwealth bid

March 18, 2013 15:48
London will consider a bid to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games after successfully hosting the Olympics last year. With the London 2012 Games regarded as a big hit among fans and athletes alike, Neale Coleman, the London Mayor's adviser on Olympic legacy, revealed on Monday that an attempt to bring the Commonwealth event to the English capital could be on the cards. Asked about the need to make full use of the Olympic Stadium in east London by hosting more top-class athletics, Coleman told ITV News: "It is something that is certainly in our minds at the moment.

Olympics: Leyton Orient launch Olympic Stadium legal fight

March 6, 2013 08:45
Leyton Orient have started a legal fight against the decision to allow fellow football club West Ham United to move into the Olympic Stadium, it was announced Wednesday. Orient, who play in England's third tier League One, are geographically the nearest football club to the Olympic Stadium, which is in the east London borough of Stratford, and have long been concerned about the potential impact of Premier League West Ham moving to the site from their existing Upton Park ground.

Athletics-London event drops taxes to lure Bolt for July meet

February 7, 2013 05:30
LONDON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt and other overseas athletes will be able to compete tax-free in this year's London Diamond League event at the Olympic Stadium after the British finance minister agreed to a "one-off" exemption. Jamaican Bolt, who won three golds at last year's London Games, had not previously raced in the United Kingdom since 2009 because of tax rules which would have left him out of pocket.

Future of London Olympic stadium "to be secured in March"

January 25, 2013 13:01
By Maria Golovnina LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - British Olympic chiefs, keen to secure a lasting future for London's splashy sporting arenas, hope to find a permanent tenant for its centrepiece stadium by March - a deal seen as a barometer of the project's financial health. Six months since London won worldwide kudos for hosting the Games, wrangling over the future of the stadium is seen as a litmus test for Britain's ability to turn the sprawling Olympics complex into a new and vibrant part of London.

Athletics-One year on, UK Olympic Stadium to host Diamond League

January 24, 2013 09:15
LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The world's top athletes will return to compete in London's Olympic Stadium in July on the first anniversary of the opening of the 2012 Games. The decision to stage London's Diamond League meeting at the stadium on Saturday July 27 is part of efforts to ensure that the Olympic site in east London - funded by some nine billion pounds ($14.3 billion) of taxpayers' money - has a viable future.
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