Transcript The Olympics in 2012

The city of London will host the Olympic
Games in 2012
 Opening date is 27 July 2012
 Closing date is 12 August 2012
 London was chosen from 5 candidate
cities
 London will become the first city to
officially host the modern Olympic
Games three times.
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Olympic park is situated in east London
The Park is located in the Lower Lea Valley
After the Games the area will be
transformed into the largest urban park
created in Europe
There are four main venues – the Olympic
Stadium, Aquatics Centre, Velodrome and
BMX Circuit
Plus the Hockey, Handball and Basketball
arenas
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The Olympic Stadium will be on
an island site surrounded on
three sides by waterways
The Olympic Stadium will be at
the heart of the London
Olympic and Paralympics
Games
All Athletics events will take
place in the Stadium as well as
the Opening and Closing
Ceremonies
After the Games, the Stadium
will be transformed into a
25,000 capacity venue that will
host a variety of sporting,
educational, cultural and
community events
Located in the south east
corner of the Olympic Park
 It will include a 50m and 25m
competition pools and a 50m
warm-up training pool
 The Aquatics Centre will host
events including Swimming,
Synchronised Swimming,
Diving, Water Polo finals and
the aquatics discipline of the
Modern Pentathlon
 After the Games The Aquatics
Centre will be transformed
into a facility for both
community and elite use
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The VeloPark will be built in
the north of the Olympic
Park and is made up of a
Velodrome and BMX
Circuit
Velodrome will host the
indoor Olympic and
Paralympics Cycling events
After the Games, a Road
Cycle circuit and Mountain
Bike course will be added
to the Velodrome and BMX
Circuit to create a
VeloPark for the local
community, local clubs
and elite athletes
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The Torch Relay will bring the spirit of the
Games to the whole of the UK in the
months leading up to the Opening
Ceremony
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies of
the Games are always something to
remember
Each Olympic and Paralympic team will
be welcomed to London as they arrive at
the Olympic Village
During these Team Welcome Ceremonies,
they are greeted and their national flag is
raised on arrival to join the other flags
Athletes will be awarded medals and
honoured for their achievements during
Victory Ceremonies across the Olympic
Venues
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There have been two London 2012 logos
The logo is available in a number of colours
This will be the first time that the same
essential logo is to be used for both the
Olympic and Paralympics games
The logo is the first in Olympic history to be
able to use a variety of colours: the
standard colours are green, magenta,
orange and blue
Sponsors can personalise logos in their
corporate colours
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Summer Olympic programme features 26
sports and a total of 39 disciplines
Paralympics Games programme has 20
sports and 21 disciplines
Women's boxing, which was not included in
Beijing, is again being considered for
inclusion
Boxing is the only Summer Olympic sport
that does not include events for women
Netball is being drafted as a possible
demonstration sport at the 2012 games
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The 1908 Summer Olympics were the fourth modern
Olympic Games and the third to be hosted outside
of Athens
In 1908, London stood as Host City in for Rome after
an eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The Olympic Stadium was built especially for the
Olympic Games
Athletes paraded under their national flags at a
ceremony at the start of the Games
The Marathon was fixed at 42.195km
New official Marathon distance from the 1924
Games onwards.
22 nations (2,008 athletes - 37 women, 1,971 men)
competed in 110 different events between 27 April
1908 and 31 October 1908
The British team easily topped the unofficial medal
count, finishing with three times as many medals as
the second-place United States
The 1948 Summer Olympics were the first to be held after
World War II
 London again stepped in at the last minute to host the
first Games after World War II
 Olympic Games were first shown on home television
 Starting blocks were added for Sprint races
 Volunteer Programme was created to help run the
Games
 59 nations (4,104 athletes - 390 women, 3,714 men)
competed in 136 different events between 29 July 1948
and 14 August 1948
 Showing a collective unity after the war, Germany and
Japan had not been invited due to security reasons
 The British athletes did not have a high medal count,
finishing 12th in the unofficial medal count with only 23
medals
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