The Queen's Club is a private sporting club in West Kensington, London. Founded in 1886, the Queen's Club was the world's first multipurpose sports complex. The club hosts the prestigious annual Queen's Club Championships grass court men's lawn tennis tournament.

The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is based in Wimbledon in South London. It is best known as the venue for the Wimbledon Championships, but is also a private members club. It was founded in 1868 as the All England Croquet Club and the then infant sport of tennis was added to its activities shortly afterwards.

The Streatham Ice RInk is situated at:
386 Streatham High Road
Streatham
London, SW16 6HT
Tel: 020 8769 7771

It features a 60m x 26m ice pad and is the home to the Streatham Redskins

Walthamstow Stadium is a dog track located in the London Borough of Waltham Forest in East London. Despite its name, the Stadium is actually located in Chingford and not Walthamstow as is evidenced by its Chingford postcode, E4 8SJ.
It is a greyhound racing stadium for the purposes of entertainment, usually including gambling on the outcome of a race.

London Vikings started off in the mid 90's with a number of Scandinavians working and studying in the capital who wanted to carry on playing Floorball/Unihoc whilst away from home. In 2000 a decision was made to take part in tournaments arranged by Great Britain Floorball Federation and London Vikings Floorball Club was officially formed. Ever since the club formation the team has enjoyed success in the domestic competitions winning a number of titles.

The London Olympics (London hosting the Olympic Games) have taken place twice, with a third scheduled for 2012. The planned 2012 Olympics will make London the first city to have hosted the Games of three Olympiads.
London is the only city in the United Kingdom to have ever hosted the Olympics; the United States is the only country to have hosted them on more occasions than the UK. To date, no city in the UK has hosted the Winter Olympic Games.

British participation in Olympic events, both as a competitor and as a host, is the responsibility of the British Olympic Association.

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The Repton Boys Club is Englands, if not the worlds, most famous and successful boxing club.
It was also the venue for the infamous 3 card brag scene in the film Lock, Stock and Three Smoking Barrels.

Established in 1884 by The Repton Public School in Derbyshire, the Repton Boys Club was founded in Bethnal Green in the heart of Londons east end as a mission for underprivileged children.

Twickenham Stadium, located in the Twickenham district of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is currently the largest stadium in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 75,000. However it is expected to lose this status in mid 2006 when the new Wembley Stadium opens.
The South Stand is currently being redeveloped to increase capacity to 82,000. It is the home of England's Rugby Football Union, and as such primarily a venue for rugby union and hosts England's home test matches. Stadium tours are available and there is a Museum of Rugby at the ground.

Greyhound racing at Wimbledon Stadium.
Now one of the country's most popular spectator events, a £20 million modernisation programme has transformed the six GRA stadia nationwide and the latest in technology provides a fun-filled night out with a difference for you and your party.

As soon as the doors open at around 6.15pm, the electric atmosphere is unleashed even before the racing begins, the buzz of the stadium is infectious wherever you choose to catch the race action.