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From a queen’s demand that forever changed the marathon, to the relocation of 2,000 east London newts

London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony is set to excite with a countryside theme including pretty picnics, rippling rivers, mesmerising meadows and real animals…

It is nearly two weeks since the Olympic Torch left Land’s End and it has already travelled in the hands of hundreds of truly inspirational people through some of Britain’s most beautiful scenery.

Organisers of the London Olympic Games will receive the Olympic flame today at a ceremony in Athens, before bringing it home to Britain

Applicants who were pipped to the post for Olympic tickets in the first ballot are being given a second chance to apply for tickets until 11pm on 17 May

Tower Bridge is celebrating the London Olympics in style this summer with a round-the-world tour of the ‘Cities of the Modern Games’

The street-by-street route of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay has been revealed, with a total of 8,000 torchbearers guiding the flame through its 70-day tour of the country

The best athletes in the world are set to descend on London from 27th July 2012 for this summer’s Olympic Games, with 205 countries expected to take part in 26 Olympic and 20 Paralympic sports.

From unlikely origins in sleepy Shropshire, the history of the Olympic Games has been characterised by stories of triumph over adversity and a very British sense of fair play