Brekkie Boy

Has any stadium actually put this platform idea into practice for athletics. I've seen it many times when stadiums are announced highlighted as a solution for having both athletics and football, but never known it to be actually done.

The Stade de France is the only stadium I know of to use the retractable seating solution too.

Could the planned Scottish Referendum in 2014 scupper this bid?

Considering the most comparable figure of his generation is Sebb Blatter he's always going to come out on top, but I think he's been a good boss for the IOC and didn't actually realise he was off after London until I saw his interview with the BBC today. I agree with the earlier comment the Winter games have really found their footing under his leadership - though the seven year lag in hosts being selected and hosting the games means it's difficult to credit them for specific games - only Vancouver and London will have won bids and been hosted under Rogges leadership.

The BBC had a special edition of Olympic Dreams today focusing on the Winter Youth Games - but far more about the athletes than the action.

An upturned bell shaped cauldron though could be quite ugly. I'm not so sure about the bell myself - if anything I think I'd put it in a permanent home outside of the stadium within the park to start with and ring it from there rather than have it stuck in the stadium throughout the ceremony.

It does seem Diversity will be involved in some way. There has been reports this week Ashley Banjo has been asked to choreograph a large scale "street dance" routine for the ceremony and he pretty much confirmed he'd been approached on This Morning and would be involved without doing the whole usual "can't talk about that" routine.

And thankfully The Spice Girls are now talking about hijacking the Diamond Jubilee for an unwanted reunion rather than the Olympics (I suspect Danny Boyle told them where to go!).

Has any more been said about a series of concerts being staged during the games featuring several top acts. Had to laugh when I saw that in the paper a couple of weeks ago being highlighted as "giving London something to celebrate" and plans to screen them across the world. I suspect it was someone trying to get in on the act rather than a LOCOG idea as obviously the Olympics themselves are more than enough for Londoners to celebrate - and TV companies around the world will probably be otherwise engaged during the Olympics.