Fireworks during the Opening Ceremony for the London Paralympic Games 2012 at the Olympic Stadium, London.


The London mayor plans to use his trip to France for Friday's opening ceremony of the Paris games to lobby members of the British Olympic Association.

Mayor sets sights on 2040 Olympic bid - but will the government back it?

Team GB's Max Whitlock is joined by fellow gymnasts

Whitlock, who trains in Basildon in Essex, stepped away from the sport after clinching his second-straight pommel crown in Tokyo in 2021 but returned last year.

Max Whitlock to lead 13-strong British gymnastics squad at Paris Olympics

Ex-Team GB sprinter James Ellington receives out-of-court settlement after crash


James Ellington, now 38, represented Great Britain at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

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Rose Amankwaah represented Ghana at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.

Former sprinter to retire after nearly 50 years as NHS nurse

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan practices his pitching in Central Park in New York ahead of pitching the first ball at San Francisco Giants v Colorado Rockies baseball game on Tuesday, during a 5 day visit to the US in a bid to boost London's tourism industry. Picture date: Monday May 9, 2022.


Sadiq Khan on a five-day visit to the US revealed City Hall officials were looking at the viability of bidding for another Olympics.

Olympics returning to London? Mayor's ambition to host ‘greenest ever’ Games

Great Britain's Alex Yee celebrates finishing second to take the silver medal in the Men's Triathlon

Brockley's double Olympic medallist Alex Yee is supporting a Sport England funding drive for grassroots sports clubs across the capital and beyond.

Brockley's Olympic champion Alex Yee helps funding drive for grassroots sports

If London was a country where would it sit in the Olympic medal table?

London higher than France in Olympic medal table

A gymnastics club in Kent used by thousands of young people every week and with more on its waiting list is one legacy of the 2012 Olympics.

Olympic legacy means gymnastics club used by thousands

The Aquatic Centre wings are gone and the ugly duckling has finally turned into a swan.

First glimpse at UK's most expensive leisure centre

The Olympic Delivery Authority has told ITV News it still can't give a date for when people can move into flats in the olympic village. 

Work on Olympic flats 'well overdue'

Reports that some of those who registered for the Olympic Park fun run this summer still haven't received confirmation of their booking.

More stadium fun run woes

Filmmaker Danny Boyle is reuniting with some of the stars who helped deliver the spectacular London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony.

Ceremony stars join Boyle film

Lord Sebastian Coe, who brought us a successful Olympics and Paralympics, outlines his career in his new autobiography. 

Tracing Lord Coe's career

The Picture Editors’ Guild fourth annual Awards honoured several Olympics and Paralympics photographs.

UK Picture Editors' Guild honours photographers

A couple who run a gym in Crayford are to receive OBE's. Len and Yvonne Arnold were nominated in the Queen's Birthday honors. 

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