Tag Archives: London 2012

Paralympic success breeds golden funding settlement

Britain’s Paralympians have been rewarded for their success at London 2012 with a huge leap in funding to take them through to the next Paralympic Games in Rio in four years’ time.
UK Sport announced the 43 per cent increase in funding for Paralympic sports – to £70.2 million from £49 million in the run-up to [...]

Key London 2012 adviser describes ‘frustration’ with LOCOG access failures

A disabled consultant who played a key role in ensuring the accessibility of London 2012’s purpose-built venues has spoken of her frustration that the events themselves did not match some of those high access standards.
Margaret Hickish began working as an access consultant with the consortiums that produced the London 2012 “masterplan” in early 2007, before [...]