Olympic legacy news

The London 2012 Olympic legacy investment designed to improve physical education at primary schools has failed, according to a study. Academics at the University of ... More

Former sports minister Richard Caborn has called on the Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park to be used as a model for steering the country’s post-pandemic economic ... More

Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) will officially open on 24 January. The facility, which forms the centrepiece of the Sheffield Olympic Legacy ... More

There has been a 'massive increase' in sports participation among the Chinese population following the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Revealing details of legacy programmes to ... More

Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) has named professor Rob Copeland as the first director of the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), set to open later this ... More

The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) will open its doors at Sheffield Hallam University later this year. Forming the centrepiece of the Sheffield Olympic Legacy ... More

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has unveiled plans to create two interconnected sites at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a brand-new museum at ... More

Corporate health and wellbeing services provider Westfield Health has appointed David Capper as its CEO. The move comes as the company is looking to focus ... More

Plans have been unveiled to build the UK’s first dedicated women’s football stadium at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park. Scarborough Group International has submitted a planning ... More

London mayor Sadiq Khan has set out a £1.1bn vision for East Bank at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – a brand new masterplan for the ... More

The £7m Thorncliffe Health and Leisure Centre in Sheffield – which forms part of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM) – has ... More

The boss of the UK’s only listed gym chain has called on planning authorities to reconsider the role that gyms have to play in creating ... More

Sheffield’s Olympic Legacy Park (OLP) – the largest London 2012 legacy project – has won £4.9m (US$6.5m, €5.9m) in infrastructure funding. The investment has been ... More

The £7m Thorncliffe Health and Leisure Centre in High Green, Sheffield is set to include specialist health and research facilities as part of the National ... More

A new £3.5m (US$4.9m, €4.4m) arena for British Basketball League (BBL) club the Sheffield Sharks has been approved for construction on the city’s Olympic Legacy ... More

Having conquered the country’s capital, Britain’s booming boutique fitness sector looks set to spread its wings beyond London in the year ahead. Inspired by boutique ... More

The UK’s outdated town planning laws are blocking fitness studios from boosting physical activity on the country’s high streets, according to the UK boss of ... More

Los Angeles City Council has approved a memorandum of understanding with the 2024 Olympic bid committee to attempt to bring the Games to the USA ... More

A Sport England-funded Olympic legacy swimming pool takes centre stage at the newly-opened Royton Leisure Centre in Oldham. Sport England awarded a grant of £134,000 ... More

A “once in a lifetime” opportunity for the London 2012 Games to inspire a generation of young Brits to participate in sport has been lost ... More

A museum celebrating the Olympic legacy of Brazil will come up in Rio de Janeiro, to open in time for next year’s 2016 Olympic and ... More

Following an epic week at MIPIM, the 25th MIPIM Award winners were announced last night – 12 March. Leisure architecture once again proved to be ... More

In a far-sighted move, Bridport Leisure Centre in Dorset has just launched the first exercise on prescription programme for people living with cancer, or who ... More

Developer and investor Union Hanover Securities has submitted a planning application for a new boutique hotel scheme at Stratford City, the former site of the ... More

The English Institute of Sport Sheffield (EIS Sheffield) and iceSheffield have been officially incorporated into the city’s multi-million pound Olympic Legacy Park (OLP) project. Located ... More