The Keeping The Flame Alive report investigating the legacy of the Games was published today (18 November). It highlights the successful bids for future events are not just for London venues, but for those around the rest of the UK.
The committee said: "The record of successful bids for major events over the next decade is already impressive. Importantly, these future events will not all be based in or centred on London; and their hosting may prove the major positive legacy of the Games to the UK as a whole.
"The continuing programme of events will create a platform and a sequence of opportunities for the UK to develop further its expertise and its reputation for delivering major events and providing a whole host of related services."
Liz Nichol, chief executive of UK Sport, said an "ambitious programme" of bids is ongoing: "We have a hit list of about 70 events that we are hoping to bring to the nation over the next six or seven years, and we have already secured about 23 of those. We actually have three major events happening next weekend.
"There is a ranking system internationally, called the Global Sports Nation Index, and we are the fourth ranked nation on that Global Sports Nation Index, which has been done by independent researchers. We are in a good position to continue to attract major events to the nation."
Among the events already secured are the Rugby Football World Cup; the World Canoe Slalom Championships; the European Eventing Championships; the World Fencing Championships; the World Artistic Championships; the European Hockey Championships; and the IPC Swimming European Championships, all of which will take place in 2015.
The UK will also host the World Athletics Championships in 2017 and and the Cricket World Cup in 2019.
The report stated, however, that the UK has had "a chequered history" in seeking to host major sporting events. It said: "The UK has in the past two decades seen a failed bid for a Fifa World Cup and had to cancel its hosting of the 2005 World Athletics Championships which had been scheduled to take place at Picketts Lock.
"The difficulties associated with large-scale projects such as the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium and the construction of the Millennium Dome created an air of scepticism both from the international sporting community and the British public."
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