http://www.londonolympics2012.comNews from London Olympics 2012(c)londonolympics2012.com 2000-20095Just last month, Christine Ohuruogu was basking in the Jamaican sunshine and being greeted at training each morning by Usain Bolt's trademark grin. After four weeks in the double world record holder's training camp, Britain's only current Olympic track champion is very much feeling the cold. She shivers as she arrives at the site of the London Games in Stratford, less than a mile from the family home where she grew up and where she will bid to defend her Beijing 400metres title in two years' time. Working with Bolt, whose phone number now takes pride of place in Ohuruogu's mobile, can only have helped the Olympic cause of the poster girl for London 2012. Not surprisingly she admits to having learned a thing or two from the seemingly laid-back Jamaican. - www.thisislondon.co.ukhttp://www.londonolympics2012.com/default.aspx?atk=2335Wed, 10 Mar 2010 www.thisislondon.co.uklondon_atk2335On a chilly winter morning, just before dawn, a young woman dressed in a black tracksuit runs hard along the seafront of her home town. She shadowboxes as she runs – seven miles around the picturesque coastal town of Bray in Co Wicklow. Over the past six years this morning workout has been a daily ritual for Katie Taylor, the two-time and current amateur lightweight world boxing champion. It is part of a gruelling regime that she hopes will help her achieve her ultimate goal: to become the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal at boxing. The London Games in 2012 will be the first time women have been allowed to compete in this most visceral of sports at Olympic level. Last August the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decreed that 36 places would be available in London to the world’s elite female fighters, who would compete across three weight classes: flyweight (48-51kg), lightweight (56-60kg) and middleweight (69-75kg). - www.telegraph.co.ukhttp://www.londonolympics2012.com/default.aspx?atk=2333Mon, 08 Mar 2010 www.telegraph.co.uklondon_atk2333UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee is adamant that Britain's athletes will prepare at an overseas training camp ahead of the Olympics. London 2012 chairman Lord Sebastian Coe believes GB's athletes might benefit from training in a familiar environment in the run-up to the 2012 Games. But Van Commenee, 51, insisted: "That's his view, I don't agree with that. "My Australian colleague who was in charge at Sydney 2000 had some advice for me - 'Don't prepare at home'." For the 2008 Beijing Olympics the British Olympic Association set up a holding camp in Macau in the Far East. Four years earlier athletes prepared for the Greece Olympics in Cyprus, while in 2000 a pre-Olympic camp was held on Australia's Gold Coast. - news.bbc.co.ukhttp://www.londonolympics2012.com/default.aspx?atk=2331Sun, 07 Mar 2010 news.bbc.co.uklondon_atk2331Sir Keith Mills, chief executive of the London 2012 bid, admitted today that his team had not worked out all the details to underpin one of the key commitments which earned them the International Olympic Committee’s vote in Singapore five years ago. Speaking at the 2010 Legacy Lives conference in east London, Mills said that there was a complete determination to uphold the pledge made before the crucial vote by Lord Coe “to reach young people all around the world and connect them with the inspirational power of the Games, so that they are inspired to choose sport”. He explained: “We thought it was a great idea, but who was going to pay for it? LOCOG didn’t have the money. Not the IOC either, which had its own programmes already. 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Sold-out venues in both Vancouver and Whistler helped to lift the Games after a start marred by the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. - news.bbc.co.ukhttp://www.londonolympics2012.com/default.aspx?atk=2321Sun, 28 Feb 2010 news.bbc.co.uklondon_atk2321