London 2012 Olympics: West Ham United 'will not submit formal bid' for Olympic Stadium by deadline

According to reports in the Times (£), West Ham are cold on the idea of wasting more money on another bid without there being more clarity, while they are also concerned about starting the process to sell their current home Upton Park unless they know for certain they are moving to the Olympic Stadium.

West Ham are thought to have spent nearly £1 million on the process of their first bid.

They are not the only London football club who are considering their options.

Leyton Orient are full participants in the “expressions of interest” phase, and are considering what kind of offer they might be able to make to the increasingly anxious OPLC

An issue for both football clubs is that the OPLC will retain the power to force tenants to share with each other.

The “pairing” system means that tenants have no choice about who they share with, meaning that the OPLC could impose a rugby club in a ground-share with West Ham, or pursue sharing between West Ham and Orient.

That would present a bigger problem to West Ham than to Leyton Orient.

London 2012 Olympics: Dow Chemical claims decision to withdraw advertising on stadium wrap taken before protests

Indian athletes and some British politicians have been agitating for Dow Chemical to withdraw from the £7 million sponsorship of the wrap on moral grounds because they claim the company has not adequately addressed compensation issues over the Bhopal disaster back in 1984, caused by Union Carbide, which Dow Chemical took over in 2001.

"It was highly unlikely that anyone would see the six panels and that decision not to exercise our rights in that regard was taken well before the issue of Bhopal came onto the radar screen," Hamilton said.

VIDEO: Dow protesters in Trafalgar Square

He said the company had become an Olympic sponsor to access more than £97 billion in new infrastructure spending at future Olympic Games generating incremental sales of £646 million over 10 years. It was also to highlight the company's involvement in sustainable products.

"We want to tell how Dow is more relevant to the world, what we do and how we do it," Hamilton said.

"We will be stressing solutions, how Dow is providing technology, innovations and solutions to the make the Olympics sustainable."