Olympics

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Why London needs the Olympics

Time Out explores the pros and cons of the 2012 Games, arguing that the event will significantly boost the capital and the nation
What would success or failure in the 2012 Olympics mean for London?

With four years to go, the race is on to make 2012 a world-beating event that does our city proud. The Time Out team asks an array of experts what failure or success in staging the Olympics would mean
2012 Olympics site map

Will London’s Olympic site be ready in time? Will it stay within its current £9.3 billion budget? Both pertinent questions – but the one we all really want answered is: What will it look like?...
2012 Cultural Olympiad

A statutory requirement for hosting the Games is the Cultural Olympiad - a series of events to showcase the city's arts and culture to the rest of the world. Here, the Government lays out exactly...
2012: a green Olympics?

The promise was to deliver the ’greenest Olympics ever‘. As the London 2012 planning application is submitted, and with five years to go before the Olympics begin, the possible environmental...
Skateboarding at the Olympics

Its loud, obnoxious and dangerous - perfect for London - but when skateboarding was first mooted for the 2012 Games, eyebrows were raised. Time Out's visual arts editor Ossian Ward, once a hardcore...
Allotments betrayed by the Olympics

If there was ever an example of how the 'little' people get screwed over for the sake of large scale projects, it is here at what's left of the Manor Garden Allotments
Handball: towards 2012

In the first of a regular series looking at how Britain‘s minority sports are preparing for the Olympic challenge, Time Out finds out why handball is getting a leg-up from the Danes
Basketball: towards 2012

When three teams took a time out from the British Basketball League, opportunity knocked for London United, the little club with big ambitions in the run-up to 2012
Olympics 2012: the story so far

Get set... Five years from this week, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will herald the most spectacular event ever seen in the capital. But how far have our preparations gone? Is London...