Organisers confirm Libya’s Olympic authorities – headed by Gaddafi’s eldest son – given passes to London Games

Allocation breakdown shows 450 tickets set aside as prizes at School Games and 1,500 reserved for foreign business guests

The 2012 torch was supposed to be low carbon, but the scientists at EDF, the Games’ sponsors, simply ran out of time

The British triple-jumper is getting closer to Jonathan Edwards’ 16-year-old world record

Hackney school children find out how the food that will feed London 2012 spectators and athletes is reared, grown and harvested – just don’t mention the chickens

Why Hackney businesses are struggling to win Olympic contracts