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."

London Olympics lights switched on for first time

for the first time at a ceremony in east London,London's 2012 Olympic floodlights have been turned on.

To press the start button British Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson led a countdown for local schoolchildren.

The Stadium has 14 light towers that are 70m tall and support 532 individual lights,the stadium is due to be finish next year.

As they slowly lit up the snow-covered arena, London Mayor Boris Johnson said it was "a historic evening".

Clijsters eyes 2012 Olympics match-up with rival Henin

Kim Clijsters - three times grand slam winner has decided to end up her successful career by patching up with arch-rival Justine Henin for Belgium at the 2012 London Olympics.

Currently world number three Clijsters and former number one Henin,both have 10 grand slam titles between them have only teamed up once before in the Fed Cup.

They have not always got on but before a friendly exhibition match on Thursday the pair spoke about the possible match-up.

"It would be nice of course to do it for the Olympic Games, because I tell myself that that year might be my last full season. So it would be nice to end that season in style," said Clijsters, who has won the U.S Open two years running since returning from a two-year break from the game to start a family.

"But again, as Justine mentioned already, we have to get together to discuss this, see what the possibilities are and assess how far we want to go in this," added the 27-year-old.

Henin, a seven-times grand slam champion who made a spectacular return to the tour in January by reaching the Australian Open final after an 18-month break, was ruling nothing out.

"There is a real willingness to be there," the 28-year-old said.

Clijsters ran out a 6-1 3-6 10-5 winner in the friendly between the compatriots, but Henin said she has put her injury woes of this year out of her head having not played since hurting her right elbow at Wimbledon in June.

"I have stopped telling myself the last weeks that I am getting old, I prefer to think that I am getting more mature," she said.

"I think that if on the health level everything goes as planned, there is still a lot of potential for me. I have regained some freshness in the last two weeks," Henin added.

London 2012 Olympics: Allegation Of Corruption On Main Sponsors surrounding Commonwealth Games

An investigation has been done by Indian Central Bureau of Investigation from Omega,which is one of the International Olympic Committee's global sponsors, through its company Swiss Timing, has been asked for details of the contract it entered into to provide timing, scoring and results for the Games, held last month.

Secretary general Lalit Bhanot and director general V.K.Verma,the most senior officials of games have been charged with criminal conspiracy and cheating under the Prevention of Corruption Act in relation to the awarding of the contract - worth several million dollars and awarded to Swiss Timing.

Investigation from other 22 official related to the games also underway and including Indian agents of Swiss Timing were also under investigation,said CBI.