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The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has announced details of the lighting of the Olympic Flame and its arrival into the UK on the 18 May. The Olympic Flame will travel 8,000 miles across the UK to within 10 miles of 95% of the population.

The Flame will be lit in Greece on 10 May and travel on board a special gold-liveried aircraft to Cornwall ahead of the Torch Relay, which starts on the 19 May.

While all eyes are on the London Olympic Games a little under six months away, the New Zealand Olympic Committee team is also keeping a watch on preparations for the Olympic Winter Games in 2014.

The Sochi 2014 Games are just over two years away, and New Zealand Olympic Committee representatives have recently visited Sochi to see how progress is going.

The New Zealand Olympic Committee has confirmed today the selection of Rotorua-based canoe slalom paddlers Mike Dawson (25) and Luuka Jones (23) to the New Zealand Olympic Team to London 2012.

Dawson becomes the first New Zealander to represent New Zealand in men’s canoe slalom since the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

The selection announcement follows strong performances from the two athletes confirming their spots inside the world top 16 in their sport and meeting the tough New Zealand Olympic Committee criteria. Jones and Dawson will compete in K1W and K1M respectively.

NZOC and Samsung unveil interactive Experience Truck to help get Kiwis closer to the Games

Tomorrow marks just six months until the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

To celebrate, Samsung in association with the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) today launched the Samsung Experience Truck – a mobile Olympic experience that gives people a chance to get up close and personal with Kiwi athletes and New Zealand’s proud Olympic history.

With exactly six months to go until the London 2012 Games, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) handed over the Olympic and Paralympic Village site to the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG).

Work will now begin on the huge process to fit out the new apartments and Village site ready to welcome athletes and officials from around the world in six months’ time. There will be more than 16,00 beds to be installed.

With just six months to go to the London Olympic Games, the New Zealand Olympic Committee is confident New Zealand’s 100th Olympic medal will be won.

New Zealand Olympians have won 90 Olympic medals since the nation’s first in 1908 and Secretary General Kereyn Smith says winning the 100th is a realistic goal for the London team.

“We’re into the six month countdown and New Zealand has a significant number of athletes well- placed for a podium finish,” she said at a function marking the six month milestone and launching the Samsung Experience Truck – a mobile Olympic experience.

50 years on from a Historic Moment at Wanganui

It will be a golden moment on Friday evening as Wanganui celebrates triple Olympic gold medallist Peter Snell’s historic world mile record at Cooks Gardens in 1962.

The annual Cooks Classic meeting has brought together a top class international field for the anniversary mile at the iconic athletics venue..

First Ever Youth Winter Olympic Games Come to a close for New Zealand athletes

New Zealand’s top winter youth athletes have finished the first Youth Olympic Winter Games with eleven top ten finishes and a critical insight into elite level multi-sport event and what it means to be an Olympic athlete.