Sport
Elite wheelchair basketball players to shoot hoops at Hackney Sparrows base
Eight teams to compete in winner takes all tournament on 6 July
Goodgym – exercising to improve body and soul
Social enterprise volunteers break a sweat by working out while helping the community
Boxing clever for fair treatment in sport
East London Fawcett event in boxing studio marks start of campaign for sexual equality in sport
Local victory at London Fields Aquathlon
Hundreds keep the Olympic spirit alive at the fifth London Fields aquathlon
Five things the Olympics got wrong
Home Counties ticket holders, overblown legacy claims – let’s not be blind to where the London Games didn’t deliver
Hackney Hurricanes kick up a storm
Disability athletics club is getting more youngsters involved in sport
Olympic torch route, day 64: there’s something for everyone in Clissold Park
Virginia Woolf, skater kids, Bugaboo mums, Ninja Turtles, and now the torch – this green space has seen it all
The White Building/Lea River Park – review
Hackney Wick’s offbeat White Building has all the hallmarks of a sensitive Olympic legacy, but the possible scrapping of the Lea River Park walkway suggests that petty politics not community is the driving force
London 2012: Phillips Idowu pull-out sends shivers through home nation
• Olympic triple jump silver medallist troubled by ‘hip tightness’ • Worries for Tiffany Porter, Robbie Grabarz, men’s sprint relay
London 2012: Phillips Idowu says he is focused and denies injury fears
• Charles van Commenee had said triple jumper was injured • Idowu will jump at Diamond League meeting on Saturday
Hackney Laces – the tie that binds
Football club is a winner as it aims to get girls aged 12-17 involved in football and the community
Olympic Park’s former artist in residence to deal with disillusionment
Neville Gabie’s next project will ‘explore how far away we might have moved from the original spirit of the Games’
The Olympic Park – review
The Velodrome, the Copper Box, the Energy Centre: some fine buildings will grace London 2012. But tawdry compromise is never far away…
Hackney karate kids meet Surrey kung fu fighters
Martial arts groups from Hoxton and Surrey spent a day together to improve their skills and learn about each other’s disciplines
Protester receives Olympics asbo
London man who opposed construction of basketball venue believed to be first to receive wide-ranging ban from Olympics