UK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has been made minister for the Olympics. The Olympic Lottery game, which would help fund preparations for 2012 Olympic Games, would also be launched soon, she said.
2012 Olympic Games: Olympic Lottery to help London deliver the goods
Bookmakers lose: 2012 Olympics go to London
As London celebrates the spectacular 2012 Olympic Games victory, UK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has been made minister for the Olympics. The Olympic Lottery game, which would help fund preparations for 2012 Olympic Games, would also be launched soon, she said.
London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games came true when the city's "awesome" bid team joined in Singapore by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair pulled off a spectacular victory.
London beat long-running bookmakers’ favourites Paris in the closest of finishes, winning the fourth and final vote of International Olympic Committee delegates in Singapore by just four votes, 54 to 50.
Now London must deliver the goods: Olympuic Lottery being launchedUK Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has now been made minister for the Olympics alongside her current responsibilities.
Speaking in Singapore, Mrs Jowell told reporters an Olympic Bill would be introduced in Parliament in the next few days.
The Olympic Lottery game, which would help fund preparations for 2012 Olympic Games, would also be launched soon, she said.
Sports Minister Richard Caborn said: "We actually gave the Olympic movement the modernisation. It is about bringing young children through sport and the Olympic movement... I think they have accepted that message and that challenge."
