Olympics body may keep affordable homes

The Olympic Park Legacy Company is thinking to built 2,800 affordable homes in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after next year’s London Olympics.

It would be an addition to the 1,379 affordable homes in the Athletes’ Village, which will be passed to the Triathlon Homes consortium of East Thames Housing Group, Southern Housing Group and developer First Base.

Andrew Altman,chief executive and OPLC chair Baroness Ford will analyze the plan which would see the body - which will ultimately come under the stewardship of the London mayor.

Around 11,000 homes are expected to be built including the 2,818 in the Athletes’ Village - which will be constructed over the 25 years after the Games.

Under the plan the OPLC would hope to begin the first homes in 2014 in the north east of the park adjacent to the Athletes’ Village and would look to contract out the management of the homes, possibly to a social landlord.

London 2012 tickets available from March 2011

To apply for tickets to all 650 Olympics sports sessions because tickets for the event will be available to purchase from 15 March 2011.

You can submit an application at any time, as tickets will not be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

On 26 April all applications will be closed and all oversubscribed sessions will be allocated by ballot.

The final schedule for all sporting evens in London Olympics 2012 is yet to be announced next month.

Organisers will reveal more details of the prices and application process for Paralympics tickets later this year.

Tickets for the London 2012 Festival events will go on sale in autumn 2011, with further details to be announced in the coming months.

Stuart Pearce to take charge of GB football team for Olympics

Many of Pearce's England Under-21's will form the bulk of the squad for London 2012 such as Josh McEachran, Jack Rodwell and Jack Wilshere.

There are many names in consideration for this job but it seems that the FA has settled on Pearce, meaning that Under-21 fixtures next season will effectively be a warm-up programme for the Olympics.


"If we are going to prepare seriously, it is difficult for a manager in club employment to do that role," said the FA's general secretary, Alex Horne. "We will substitute England Under-21 fixtures for this hybrid team.

"Stuart is an employee of the FA. He's very heavily focused on the Under-21 tournament in Denmark (next summer) and we want him to focus on that."

But after that, Pearce can focus on steering the Under-21s towards the Olympics. "It would be very logical," added Horne.

"It is the FA's choice; we will make that decision in May/June time. It gives them a decent year to run the team into the tournament. It's primarily an Under-23 team with three over-age.

""The current arrangement is that it would be an English team representing the British Isles. The BOA have said it is not acceptable because it is prejudicial, so we are working through an alternative selection process with the other home nations."

Horne hopes to have identified "by the end of February" the younger coach to work with Pearce, Fabio Capello and the other England age-group teams.

Meanwhile, the Under-21s are to play Italy in Empoli on Feb 8.

Solar storm may obstruct London Olympics

For the London 2012 Olympics organizing committee after the all preparations for Olympics game,the organisers of the £9.3 billion mega event are now confronting with few genuine problem as London could suffer a solar storm during the Games.

Olympics 2012 organizing committee had been 'looking in the situation carefully' after the Met Office warned the next solar storm may occur during the games next year.

"Extreme space weather events typically occur at the solar maximum, which itself follows a roughly 11-year cycle. The next solar maximum is expected around 2012-13 --potentially coinciding with the London Olympic Games," said a weather expert.

A London 2012 spokeswoman said, "We are working with our partners and stakeholders to ensure that contingency plans are in place for all eventualities."

Egan eyes 2012 triumph

Kenny Egan wants to dominate Olympics in London 2012,he will be representing Ireland's buoyant boxing team.The boxer got so many rebellious offers and then finally decided to turn professional in the wake of his silver medal win in Beijing.

Egan has indulge with the Miami franchise in the fledgling World Series of Boxing but insists his significant goal is to complete his career on a high by bettering his performance in the Chinese capital.

Egan said: "The set-up has improved enormously since I first became a part of it and the success is a credit to the amazing work which is done by the high performance units in both Dublin and Belfast.

"The squad continues to prove itself world-class and the fact that the next Olympics are taking place just across the water in London gives everyone a massive boost to knuckle down and follow their dream."