Greece

Organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games have been told to not delay on starting work on preparations to host the event to avoid the problems faced by Athens last year.

British Olympic Association (BOA) media manager Philip Pope is to take up the role of public affairs manager at Cricket Australia.

South Korea's second-largest city, Busan, plans to stage the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

QinetiQ, the global defence technology and security company which has provided expertise for complex event security projects, is the latest Premier Partner of the International Sports Security Summit.

George Bolos has been appointed by Eurosport as vice president, marketing and sales, for the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).

Uefa has named a shortlist of three candidates to host the European Championship in 2012.

Deputy chief executive of the British Olympic Association (BOA), Dr Stephen Martin MBE, is to take up a new position as the Olympic Council for Ireland's first chief executive.

More than 30 countries will be represented at the second International Sports Security Summit.

Terrorism remains the major security concern around the London 2012 Olympic Games according to research by specialist technology suppliers Venue Solutions.

UEFA chief Lars-Christer Olsson has dropped a huge hint as to who will be on the short-list to host Euro 2012.

Oriel Solutions in association with Controlled Training Solutions (CTS) have become Premier Partners of the 2nd International Sports Security Summit, which takes place at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne on October 19 and 20.

London 2012 officials were in positive mood after their first meeting with the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed Denis Oswald aschairman of the Coordination Commission for the London 2012 OlympicGames.

The International Olympic Committee has reportedly frozen $9million inpayments to the International Boxing Association following aninvestigation into flawed judging and scoring at the Athens Olympics.

Delegations from major sports bodies around the world will be among those attending the second International Sports security Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on October 19 and 20.

The second International Sports Security Summit is set to field the strongest line-up of speakers ever assembled to discuss this increasingly important subject..

The bill for the Athens Olympics has now hit 13 billion euros, according to Greek Government figures.

Tickets.com and newly established ticketing services company TicketHour (a division of BRINIA S.A) have entered a partnership that will see Tickets.com solutions offered to venues throughout Greece.