Design by British artist David Watkins in line with London 2012 logo but fails to impress branding experts

IOC hail progress as Tom Daley dives into Aquatics Centre pool, completed on time and budget

Local authorities must protect budgets, says Lord Moynihan, as drive to get more people playing sport falters

It’s a year to the start of the 2012 Olympics. Iain Sinclair, writer and arch critic of the project, takes on Labour’s Tessa Jowell who played a key role in the London bid

Pimp your bike and join the sport of kings on Hackney Downs, 30th and 31st July

• Thousands who missed out in first ballot disappointed again
• 18 out of 24 sports sold out by Friday evening
• Only football, volleyball and wrestling left by Sunday

With London 2012 less than a year away, the land on which the games will take place has yet to be fully paid for

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