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Funding for special Olympians
8:33am Tuesday 13th May 2008
ATHLETES with their eyes on the London 2012 Special Olympics will be able to hone their skills after receiving lottery funding.

Budding sports reporter? Win a trip to the Olympics
12:30pm Wednesday 7th May 2008
We have teamed up with McDonald's, official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games sponsor, to offer one lucky youngster and an adult the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime Olympic experience.

Budding sports reporter? Win a trip to the Olympics
12:30pm Wednesday 7th May 2008
We have teamed up with McDonald's, official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games sponsor, to offer one lucky youngster and an adult the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime Olympic experience.

Budding sports reporter? Win a trip to the Olympics
12:28pm Wednesday 7th May 2008
We have teamed up with McDonald's, official Beijing 2008 Olympic Games sponsor, to offer one lucky youngster and an adult the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime Olympic experience.

Eboni's Olympics campaign gathers pace
5:33pm Tuesday 6th May 2008
Sutton-based Eboni Beckford-Chambers is gaining momentum in her campaign to get netball into the 2012 Olympics, writes Chris Willmer.

Jodie takes tips from Olympic legend
2:44pm Sun 4 May 08
WELWYN-born long-jumper Jodie Williams, 14, has received a masterclass in hard work from Daley Thompson, Britain's greatest all-round Olympic athlete.

OLYMPICS: Mayor Ken in Games bid revelation
8:16am Thu 24 Apr 08
London mayor Ken Livingstone has claimed he "ensnared" the Government into bidding for the 2012 Olympics.

Sailors show off golden bodies
7:40am Wed 23 Apr 08
This is the colour medal sailors Bryony Shaw and Iain Percy will be hoping to collect come the Olympics in August.

Gordon eyes Olympic gold
3:33pm Tue 22 Apr 08
Wandsworth judo star Winston Gordon is hoping to put an Olympic-year injury scare behind him to win gold in Beijing this summer.

WALTHAMSTOW: Annual festival victim of Olympic 'madness'
9:11am Tue 22 Apr 08
There will be no Walthamstow Festival this year after the council withdrew funding to pay for its own Olympic event in July.

OLYMPICS: Row over 'unrealistic' Games budget
8:33am Tue 22 Apr 08
A damning report by MPs into the £9.3bn cost of the London 2012 Olympics has branded the original budget "entirely unrealistic"

Romero's golden vision
8:11am Tue 22 Apr 08
Rebecca Romero insists only gold will do at this summer's Olympic Games if she wants to be accepted in to the British cycling fraternity, writes Rory Haywood.

Local sailors display golden touch in Olympic year
4:44pm Mon 21 Apr 08
Showing their desire to win gold at the 2008 Olympic sailing regatta in Qingdao in August, five members of Skandia Team GBR selected to compete at the Beijing Games, took precious time out of their intense training schedules to be photographed in this iconic golden sailors' photo shoot.

OLYMPICS: 'Poor may be trampled on in 2012 gold rush'
1:40pm Mon 21 Apr 08
The 2012 Olympics may fail to benefit the poorest people in east London, a think-tank has warned.

Canoeist paddling to Olympic success
12:52pm Thu 17 Apr 08
With a summer of Olympic action ahead, CRAIG BURNETT talks to a Wimbledon athlete who has overcome incredible adversity in her quest for sporting success.

Ken condemned for torch involvement
9:39am Sun 13 Apr 08
Haringey's Liberal Democrats have criticised London Mayor Ken Livingstone for attending Sunday's Olympic Games torch procession.

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