Just Six Years to Go ; Esjobs London Olympics 27 July 2012 with Massive Olympics Recruitment Being Planned, Rory Clements Looks at the Exciting Prospects for Newham, Hackney, Greenwich, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and the Rest of London

Evening Standard - London › July 26, 2006

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RICHARD Sumray has been dreaming of a London Olympics for a long time. He was deeply involved in the unsuccessful bid to land the 2000 Games (which, of course, went to Sydney) and then tried to get challenges off the ground for 2004 and 2008.

At times, he must have wondered whether he was banging his head against a brick wall.

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Just Six Years to Go ; Esjobs London Olympics 27 July 2012 with Massive Olympics Recruitment Being Planned, Rory Clements Looks at the Exciting Prospects for Newham, Hackney, Greenwich, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and the Rest of London

"I always believed it could happen but that's not to say I believed it would happen," he says. Instead of being downhearted, though, he "carried on working at it" as special adviser on sport to Ken Livingstone and as chief executive of London International Sport. He has visited the past four Games to find out how everything ope...

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