Mo Farah set a personal best over a mile despite an opening-lap tumble at the Boston Indoor Grand Prix.

The Daily Mirror have teamed up with Alfa Romeo, Official Car Supplier to UK Athletics, to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to the Aviva Indoor UK Trials and Championship event at EIS-Sheffield

The Olympic Flame will be lit by the sun's rays on the morning of May 10 in Greece at the start of its journey to the London 2012 Games, Lord Coe announced today.

West Ham are believed to be one of 16 parties interested in moving to the Olympic Stadium after this summer's London Games as the January 30 deadline passed.The original deal for the Hammers to take over the Stratford venue collapsed in October amid concerns over delays caused by the legal dispute with Tottenham and Leyton Orient.The new bidding process to use the stadium opened on December 20, with West Ham the favourites to become the tenants, although the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) confirmed they would accept a ground-share bid from a football and a rugby team, and said retaining the athletics track was non-negotiable.A spokesperson for the OPLC said: "There have been 16 registrations from parties interested in bidding to use the stadium after the Games. They now have until March 23, 2012, to submit their full bids."The Legacy Company plans to appoint the winning bidders in May 2012 and remains on track to reopen the venue in 2014."Each successful bidder will add to the athletics legacy already secured for the stadium, including the new national centre for athletics and host of the 2017 World Athletics Championships."Spurs, meanwhile, scrapped their plan to challenge West Ham to become tenants and have instead committed themselves to their initial idea for a new stadium known as the Northumberland Development Project (NDP).

'Mo's world champion, a complete athlete'. Van Commenee

By ALEX SPINK

'I wanted to a good time but above all I wanted to start 2012 with a win'

'Most people here haven't got anything else. It's their way to a better life'. Farah

THE room is four paces long by four across.

With the Olympics getting fully under way precisely six months from tomorrow, here we look at how the London 2012 site will be managed once the athletes have gone home.

As a born and bred Londoner, Sir John Armitt - the man who spearheaded the almost faultless giant building project for the 2012 Olympics - has a strong personal belief that the people of the capital must play their part to make it the best Games there have ever been.

The controversial fabric wrap around London's showpiece Olympic Stadium will stay despite the resignation of an ethics watchdog over the link between the Bhopal disaster and Dow Chemical Company, which is backing the hi-tech design, London 2012 said today. An enraged Meredith Alexander stepped down as a commissioner on the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 (CSL), whose job is to assure sustainability across the Olympic and Paralympic programme, stating she no longer wanted "to be party to a defence of Dow Chemicals". Up to 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed when poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, central India, in 1984. It is one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 and denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities. Ms Alexander said: "It is appalling that 27 years on, the site has still not been cleaned up and thousands upon thousands of people are still suffering. Dow, a global Olympic sponsor since 2010, stepped in to fund the hi-tech fabric wrap which was ditched to save £7 million. Savings of £20million had been called for. Hundreds of survivors of Bhopal last month burned effigies of London 2012 chairman Lord Coe and Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the head of India's Olympic organising committee, to protest against the Dow deal. Dow has always maintained it did not own or operate the Bhopal plant and that legal claims regarding the gas leak were resolved when Union Carbide paid compensation for those killed or injured. Five Bhopal victims' rights groups have also demanded the scrapping of the sponsorship deal, saying it would give undue publicity to a company that was refusing to clean up the toxic contamination of soil and groundwater. Vaz said: "Meredith Alexander's resignation was brave and principled. It is completely unacceptable that a supposedly sustainable Olympic Games is taking sponsorship from a company with as appalling a human rights and environmental record as Dow's. "I hope Locog (the London 2012 organisers) and the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 will now see that it is untenable for Dow's sponsorship to continue. The fact Ms Alexander felt it necessary to resign has brought the Commission's credibility into question. It will remain so as long as Dow remains a sponsor of London 2012." Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said: "Meredith Alexander has made a brave and principled stand. "She obviously shares our outrage at this association and it is a shame that her concerns, like ours, have fallen on deaf ears. "It is appalling that Dow has never accepted responsibility for the legacy of the horrific Bhopal tragedy." She urged the company to meet with victims. Livingstone, who is running for re-election as London mayor, said: "Londoners will rightly be concerned by the allegations that have been levelled today following the resignation of Meredith Alexander. "The controversy over Dow's sponsorship over the Olympic Stadium threatens long lasting damage to the reputation of the Olympic Games and to the reputation of London. "Locog and the mayor could resolve this matter by simply admitting they have made a mistake and find another sponsor. Alexander was appointed to the CSL in May 2010.

'I thought the Games were at the end of August. I hadn't checked'

Mo Farah has admitted he had to ask Paula Radcliffe when the London Olympics are taking place.

MO FARAH has admitted he had to ask Paula Radcliffe when the London Olympics are taking place.

PAULA RADCLIFFE felt a pain in her leg and an alarm went off in her head.

PAULA RADCLIFFE felt a pain in her leg and an alarm went off in her head.

BERNICE WILSON was accused of betrayal last night after she became the first British athlete to be given a four-year drugs ban.

MO FARAH has been backed to handle the weight of home expectation and beat track legend Kenenisa Bekele to Olympic gold.

Olympic triple jump champ Nelson Evora is out of the London Games with an agonising leg injury.