Sadiq Khan wants London to bid for the 2040 Olympics and insists the capital can host the Games ‘brilliantly’ and ‘very cheaply’. London 2012 proved to be a monumental success and Khan ...

Sadiq Khan wants London to host the 2040 Olympic Games as part of his quest to make the city 'the sporting capital of the world'. London 2012 proved to be a monumental success.

LONDON wants to host the 2040 Olympic Games, with Mayor Sadiq Khan promising: We could knock it out of the park. And the capital is ready to stage a future Super Bowl if the NFL plans to go global … ...

Sadiq Khan wants London to host the 2040 Olympic Games as part of his quest to make the city 'the sporting capital of the world'. London 2012 proved to be a monumental success.

London's done the Olympics on three occasions, but South London has never got a look-in, other than staging a handful of events such as cycling in Herne Hill (1948) and equestrian in Greenwich (2012).

"An Olympics in London wouldn't cost a fortune, but the benefits would be humongous." Plenty of competition is emerging to host the 2036 Summer Games, the next to be awarded.

Before Paris, London demonstrated in the 2012 Olympics that host cities didn’t have to end up with empty venues long after the Games are over.