olympics 2012

Olympics 2012


Data
205 NOCs participating countries (expected)
Athletes 10,500 (expected)
303 events in 26 sports.
Opening Ceremony July 27
Closing ceremony August 12
Official opening of Queen Elizabeth II
Main Stadium Olympic Stadium London
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APPLICATION PROCESS

The candidate cities had a deadline of July 15, 2003 to submit their bids to host the competition in 2012. The cities were Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
On May 18, 2004 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the result of a technical assessment reported, reduced the number of cities to five: London, Madrid, Moscow, New York and Paris.
On 19 November 2004 all five candidate cities had submitted their proposals to the International Olympic Committee. The IOC has sent an assessment team that visited the five candidate cities during February and March 2005 Policy. The candidacy of Paris took two observations during the visit of the IOC: a series of strikes and demonstrations coinciding with the visit and a report claiming that Guy Drut, a key member of the Parisian team and IOC member, was accused of receiving money from a corrupt political party.
The June 6, 2005, the International Olympic Committee released its evaluation reports of the five candidate cities. Although these reports did not contain any scores or classification, the report from Paris was considered the most positive, followed by London, which had decreased compared to the first assessment in 2004. New York and Madrid also had a very positive assessment in its reports.
The five cities were visited by delegates of the IOC, who rated items as safety, health, transport, hotel services and infrastructure.
Results of Nominations for the 2012 Olympic Games
City NOC 1st Round 2nd Round 3rd Round 4th Round
London United Kingdom 22 27 39 54
Paris France 21 25 33 50
Madrid, Spain 20 32 31 -
New York United States 19 16 - -
Moscow Russia 15 - - -
[EDIT] PREPARATION OF THE CITY

[Edit] Happened since 2005
The Organising Committee of the London Olympic Games (LOCOG), was created to oversee and organize the Games after the success of the application, and held its first meeting on 7 October 2005. The committee, chaired by Sebastian Coe, is responsible for implementing and conducting the games, while the Olympic Development Authority Greater London Authority (ODA) is in charge of building venues and infrastructure.
The Government Olympic Executive (GOE), a unit within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is the agency that coordinates the London Olympics in 2012. The GOE, through the Minister reports to the Permanent Organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London, Tessa Jowell. Since the observation and supervision of the Games and their legacy before and after games that will benefit London and Britain.
Several aspects of the Games have evolved from the initial to the town that was chosen.
[Edit] Places and infrastructure


Wembley Stadium, where they will play the most important football matches (semi-finals, etc).


The O2, where they held the trials for gymnastics and basketball games.


Wimbledon, where tennis tournaments take place.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 will use a mixture of new venues, existing facilities and areas / historic facilities (some of them are tourist attractions like Hyde Park and the Parade of the Guard) and several temporary facilities. Following the problems that plagued the O2, the organizers intend that there will be no white elephants after the Games, since the "Legacy 2012" will be delivered in London. Some of the new facilities will be reused in their Olympic form while others, including the 80,000 seat Olympic Stadium will be reduced and several retired and will be transferred to other places in Britain. These projects are part of the regeneration of the borough of Stratford, east London, which will be the site of the Olympic Park and the neighborhoods of the Lower Lea Valley.


The Olympic stadium being built for Londresestá evidence of Athletics.
This required the expropriation of some business properties, which are being demolished to make places arenas and improvements of existing infrastructure. This whole process has been controversial because some of the affected owners, are claiming that the damages are very low and proposals outside the real value of the land. In addition, there are concerns about the direct impacts that increased tourism in the secular Gardens Allotments, which inspired a campaign of the local community and the demolition of homes in Clays Lane Estate was opposed by tenants.
Most venues have been divided into three zones within Greater London: the Olympic Zone, the River Zone and Central Zone. Besides these places, some branch offices outside the Great Londres.A National Academy of Portland, Buckinghamshire and Hadleigh Castle and subsedes Soccer: Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow and Cardiff.
[Edit] Olympic Stadium London
The Olympic Stadium in London, all of it will be a stadium built of steel in the Olympic Park. Have a capacity of 80,000 seats during the games (and 25 000 after the Games) and will be ready in 2011.
Has several features that are seen early in the first sight, such as the roof, and the lateral zone will be painted gigantic images of athletes and participating countries' flags. The idea for the design of the stadium, was to create a structure that resembles the muscles of the human body.
It is located on an island, where they will access via several bridges. Around with different designs that will be removed after the Games.
The entire stadium project was done in a comprehensive manner, which took into account the smallest details, such as the street lamps (in the Olympic Village), the seats of the stadium, etc ...
[Edit] Public transportation


The London Underground transport the majority of spectators to the events scattered throughout the city.
Any issue related to public transport, which was considered the main factor in escolhacidade. But this needs urgent improvement. The main projects are the expansion of the London Underground, with the expansion and modification of the lines East London Line, Docklands Light Railway, North London line, and the new "Javelin," the high-speed rail service, using the bullet train.
The organization took into account that at least 80% of the athletes have to travel less than 20 minutes to the competition venues. The Olympic Park will be served by 10 separate railway lines with a combined capacity of 240 000 passengers per hour. There are also plans to reduce traffic levels in the city during the Olympic Games.


London Underground train, with advertising for the 2012 Olympics.
Concerns were expressed at the logistics of spectators who travel to the venues outside London. In particular, the events happening in Portland, are in an area with no connection to the motorway and local roads are heavily congested by existing tourist traffic in summer (the period in which the Games take place). Also there is only limited scope for extra services on the west, Main Line beyond Southampton, without new infrastructure. Games organizers say they have reviewed the past Games, more specifically the sailing events, and they expect to have fewer viewers than those who have attended recent events such as the Notting Hill Carnival and Tall Ships Race.
[Edit] Mascot
On May 19, 2010, the British Olympic Committee announced the two mascots of the Games: Wenlock and Mandeville Cartoon animations are made to represent two drops of steel [2].
[Edit] Financing
The costs of mounting the Games are separated from the costs of constructing the necessary infrastructure, and the landfill for the Olympic Park. While the Games will have a majority of private investments, the Park and its facilities will be public investment.
On March 15, 2007, Tessa Jowell, the British Minister for Development of Olympic Sport, announced in the Commons a budget of 5.3 billion (5 billion and 300 million) pounds for the construction of the stadium and necessary infrastructure for the Games, while the urban reform announced in the Lower Lea Valley, a budget of 1.7 billion (1 billion and $ 700 million).
Besides all this, were announced various other costs including an overall additional contingency fund of 2.7 billion (2 billion and $ 700 million) pounds. For questions regarding the safety of games, costs are predicted to be 600 million, VAT of £ 800 million (for participants) and the Paralympic funding of nearly 400 million. According to these figures, the total for the Games and the regeneration of East London area, is 9345 million (9 billion and 345 million) pounds (more than 10 billion euros). Mayor Ken Livingstone promised the Games Organizing Committee that the city will also contribute to the achievement of the Games.
The costs for staging the Games (2 billion or 2 billion pounds) are being funded from the private sector through a sum of sponsorship, merchandising, ticket sales and media rights. This budget is raised and managed by the Organizing Committee of Olympic Games London 2012 Paralympic Games (LOCOG). According to the LOCOG the Games, the funding is divided thusly:
63% from the Central Government;
23% of the National Lottery;
13% from the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency.
In November 2007, Edward Leigh MP, criticized the organizers for significantly underestimating the cost of holding the games, suggesting that they had "acted in bad faith or were incompetent".
On December 10, 2007, Tessa Jowell confirmed the previously announced budget.