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The U.S. Olympic Committee will accept requests from media organizations starting Tuesday for accreditation to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The application form is available through the USOC’s media-specific site, USOCPressbox,org. Click here to go to the request site: http://pressbox.teamusa.org/Pages/Credentials.aspx.

The deadline for making the request is Oct. 1, 2010. This process is open to print, Internet and photographic media organizations that are based in the United States and meet the guideline standards included in this press release. All non rights-holding broadcasters will be accredited by the International Olympic Committee. The form will be available March, 2011, on the IOC website www.olympic.org and the deadline for submission for all non-rights holding broadcasters will be in May, 2011.

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By Toby Davis

LONDON, July 23 (Reuters) - The 2012 London Olympics project is bucking the recession by creating and safeguarding jobs in vulnerable economic times, Games organising committee chairman Sebastian Coe said on Friday.

The British coalition government has cut 27 million pounds ($41 million) from the Olympic budget as part of its wide-ranging austerity measuers to tackle Britians’s budget deficit.

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LONDON (AP)—As a former Olympic champion and world-record holder, Sebastian Coe says he is not about to lose the race to get London ready for the 2012 Games.

Coe, head of London’s organizing committee, said Friday he is approaching next week’s two-year countdown to the Olympics as one of those 800-meter races he used to win with a perfectly timed kick on the last lap.

“I broke 13 world records,” said Coe, a two-time Olympic gold medalist at 1,500 meters. “I don’t intend to break the 14th by being the first president of an organizing committee not to have it ready on the day we’re supposed to.

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By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer

LONDON(AP)—As a former Olympic champion and world-record holder, Sebastian Coe says he is not about to lose the race to get London ready for the 2012 Games.

Coe, head of London’s organizing committee, said Friday he is approaching next week’s two-year countdown to the Olympics as one of those 800-meter races he used to win with a perfectly timed kick on the last lap.

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NEW YORK (AP)—The U.S. Olympic Committee will announce a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with BMW next Monday.

The deal, reported last month to be worth about $24 million through 2016, will make BMW the first foreign car maker to sponsor the USOC and will fill a void left when General Motors decided not to renew its sponsorship after the 2008 Olympics.

It continues a good few weeks of Olympic sponsorship news, coming shortly after the International Olympic Committee signed on Dow Chemical as one of its major sponsors.

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)—The International Olympic Committee and World Health Organization have agreed to work together to promote healthy lifestyles and tackle child obesity.

IOC president Jacques Rogge and WHO director general Margaret Chan signed a five-year agreement Wednesday at Olympic headquarters.

The two bodies will cooperate in their respective national offices to influence health policy and target non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancers and diabetes.

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IOC: Solid progress continues on 2012 Games with two years to go

08 Jul 2010The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reported on ‘solid progress’ following the most recent Coordination Commission visit to London.

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LONDON (AP)—IOC president Jacques Rogge expressed confidence Monday that London’s “lean but very workable budget” will deliver a successful Olympics in 2012 despite Britain’s economic crisis and massive spending cuts.

“Every pound has to be really very well spent,” Rogge said during a tour of Olympic facilities in east London, including the flagship 80,000-seat main stadium.

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Olympic Stadium's 2012th seat fitted by IOC President

05 Jul 2010The 2012th seat was today fitted in the Olympic Stadium by IOC President Jacques Rogge.

The Olympic Stadium's 2012th seat is fitted by Jacques Rogge and Seb Coe
Mr Rogge was joined by London 2012 Organising Committee Chair Sebastian Coe and Olympic Delivery Authority Chief Executive David Higgins. Eight of the ‘Young Ambassadors’ who travelled to Singapore as part of London’s winning bid were also in the Stadium to witness the seat being fitted.


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ITTIGEN, Switzerland (AP)—Switzerland’s Olympic committee says the country is capable of hosting the 2022 Winter Games and will form a strategy to present a bid to the International Olympic Committee.

The Swiss Olympic body said Friday that a report it commissioned concludes that the Alpine nation could proceed with a bid.

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