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1/1 The two-year countdown begins today to the start of the 2012 London Olympics, an event which has already seen North-East businesses win work to the tune of £60m. Deborah Johnson looks at the wealth of opportunities still on offer for regional firms, and how help is at hand in bidding for such contracts. TWO years today, one of the most anticipated sporting events of the decade will get under way here in the UK. After several years and hundreds of millions of pounds, the world’s greatest athletes will compete in London. The Games – which will be one of the UK’s key events this century – will undoubtedly bestow untold prestige on the UK and its capital city, and will give an anticipated billion-pound boost to the national economy. Hopes are already high that the third Olympics to be held in London will be among the best Games ever seen.