Timeline
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Global tickets
How to buy a ticket for 2012 if you live outside the EU
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Full Q&A guide to tickets for EU residents
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Lord Coe explains the ticket process
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How to keep costs down when buying tickets
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2012 Olympics schedule revealed
News
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North West volunteer interviews begin
Interviews to select thousands of volunteers for the 2012 Olympics are taking place in Salford.
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Olympics ticket sales 'healthy'
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Olympic police funding 'unfair'
Sport
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Smith swaps college for competing
Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Zoe Smith quits her A-level studies to focus on qualifying for the London Olympics in 2012.
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GB open with double world bronze
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Olympic mountain bike site opened
BBC London
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Public to name Olympic suburbs
The public are invited to suggest names for five neighbourhoods to be built on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park after the 2012 Games.
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Schools perform Olympic dramas
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Olympics gets EastEnders postcode
Blogs
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Constantine Louloudis stands out
Matthew Pinsent on the 19-year-old Londoner who is an "efficient engine" in Saturday's Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
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Is GB football a team united?
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Looking to the track
Olympic venues
Find out about
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Tickets
8 million tickets The number of tickets available for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Available from 2011 (Official 2012 site)
BBC Travel
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Olympia then and now
BBC Travel journeys to the Games in 480 BC and picks up some tips for the modern day visitor
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London Inviting people to name the new "Olympic" boroughs“Our city has some of the most famous place names of any city in the world”
BBC Archive
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Austerity Games
Relive the London 1948 Olympics through the BBC Archive
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Carrying a flame
The torch which marked part of 1948 relay