Saturday, May 28, 2011

London Olympics 2012 test event tickets available now

THE LONDON Olympic games organisers have announced the sale of tickets for the public of its four test events, which are going to be held from July 31 to August 21. The London Olympics games organisers LOCOG has branded the test events as "London Prepares" series.

Four LOCOG ticketed test events include Mountain Bike, Beach Volleyball, Basketball and BMX.

The Mountain Bike event will be held on July 31 at Hadleigh Farm, Essex, and some of the world’s best men and women’s mountain bikers will be participating in the event. Beach Volleyball will be taking place at Horse Guards Parade from August 9-14, and a total of 54 matches will be played.

The basketball test events will be taking place at Basketball Arena, Olympic Park from August 16-21. In this event six top men’s teams from around the world will compete. In the BMX test event, that is scheduled between August 19-20 at BMX Track, Olympic Park, and 130 men and 40 women riders will show their skills.

Tickets for the four test events are being sold on a first come first served basis. Price of the tickets is from £5 and £35. For children under 16 and under and adults aged 60 and over, tickets will be available on special price. According to LOCOG, 250 tickets will be donated to schools. 

The London Olympics Games 2012 are scheduled to be organised from July 27 to August 12, whereas Paralympic Games are scheduled from August 29 to September 9, 2012.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

First images of London 2012 Shooting venue unveiled as construction starts at Royal Artillery Barracks

New images of the London 2012 Shooting venue – located in the grounds of Woolwich’s historic Royal Artillery Barracks - were today released by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).
The temporary venue in south-east London will host the Shooting and Paralympic Shooting competitions, in addition to Paralympic Archery.
The contractor for the three enclosed ranges and three open-air ranges is Hertfordshire-based John Sisk & Sons, with the venue set to be completed ahead of international shooting test events next spring.
Spectators will enter the venue with views of the world-famous military base - the longest continuous Georgian building facade in the UK - before taking their seats to watch the sporting action.
ODA Project Sponsor for the Shooting venue Richard Arnold said: 'The Shooting venue is the ODA’s final venue to start construction and will be ready to host test events next year. It will be a fitting arena for athletes during the London 2012 Games and spectators will also benefit from an excellent location that is steeped in history.'
LOCOG Chair Seb Coe said: 'Staging the Shooting and Paralympic Archery events at the world famous Royal Artillery Barracks will provide a memorable background during the Games which will inspire the athletes and provide a great showcase for London and the UK.'
President of the International Shooting Sport Federation, Olegario Vázquez Raña, said during a recent visit to the site: 'It is fantastic to see our athletes and the sport of Shooting located at such an iconic venue at the very centre and heart of the London Games. We are extremely impressed with the design, plans and arrangements for the venue. It will provide a splendid stage upon which to showcase our athletes and sport to the world. We thank London 2012 for such innovation and detailed planning.'
The Pistol and Rifle competitions will be held across three ranges - a Finals range, 25m range and a combined 10m and 50m range. Three outdoor ranges will host the Olympic Shotgun competitions, which will then be transformed to stage Paralympic Archery.
It is estimated that more than 104,000 spectators will watch the competitions during the Games – equating to around 4,000 people every day.
Immediately after the Games, the venue will be dismantled as quickly as possible and the site returned to its original condition, after which it will be handed back to the Ministry of Defence.
London 2012 is working with the Government and other partners to identify opportunities where elements of the venue and sports equipment could be reused after the Games.
Notes to Editors:
CGI images the Royal Artillery Barracks Shooting venue can be downloaded at: http://mm.gettyimages.com/mm/nicePat...av=pr151130440
Ranges will include:

  • Finals range: This building will be used for the finals of all of the Rifle and Pistol events.
  • 25m Range: This partially enclosed range will be used for the qualifying rounds of the 25m Pistol and 25m Rapid Fire Pistol events.
  • 10m/50m Range: This partially enclosed range will be used for the qualifying rounds of the 10m Air Rifle and 10m Air Pistol events, and 50m Rifle and 50m Pistol events.
  • Shotgun Ranges: All three open air ranges will be used for qualifying for the Shotgun Skeet, Trap and Double Trap competitions, with the centre range being used for the finals.

Shooting, Paralympic Shooting & Paralympic Archery:

  • Shooting: In Pistol and Rifle events, competitors fire at a target from a set distance within an enclosed range. In Shotgun events, athletes fire at a moving clay target at varying distances.
  • Paralympic Archery: Sport is split into Standing and Wheelchair events. Athletes fire at a target from a 70m distance within an outdoor range.
  • Dates: The Shooting competition is scheduled for 28 July to 6 August 2012 when the venue will be open to spectators. Paralympic Shooting and Paralympic Archery competition is scheduled to take place from 30 August to 6 September 2012

Construction process:

  • The foundations of the venue will soon start to be laid. Removable steel piles will be driven into the ground, with reused pipeline incorporated to reduce the need for new materials. The result is that the buildings will touch the ground much more lightly than if the venue was conventionally built.
  • The structures that make up the range buildings include the spectator’s enclosure and the field of play enclosure.
  • Spectator’s enclosures: These lightweight tented structures have vibrantly coloured openings to breakup the façade and provide natural ventilation, light and a tension to the external skin. The enclosures’ main structures, which are rented and can be demounted after the Games, are made from steel trusses, with secondary steelwork creating the openings by providing support for the fabric cladding to be tensioned across.
  • Field of play enclosures: These are constructed using a steelwork column structure clad with plywood.

Tours for the 2012 Olympics Games

Tours in the area of the games

London's professional BLUE BADGE GUIDES can take you on a tour of the sites of the games to chart the progress of the regeneration of parts of east London and the creation of the new Olympic area and corresponding locations.

Below you will find descriptions of different tours you can take with our guides, whether you are arriving on foot, by rail or in a coach.

This walk begins by following the former industrial Lower Lea valley, past old mills and along a tow path, whilst discovering why this area was chosen for the Olympic Park. We finish on a footpath from where there are excellent views of the 2012 Olympic Park construction site. Your guide will tell you the latest news on the venues, athletes and what will happen to it all after the 2012 Games are over. (Please note that members of the public are not allowed access to the interior of the Olympic Park).

The tour runs every day at 11am. For more information and booking details, go to the Daily Walk page

Following on from the continuing success of the Daily Olympic Walk, Blue Badge Tourist Guides have now launched a new Olympic tour to coincide with the final run up to the 2012 Games. Our mid week Evening Olympic Walk will take place every Wednesday evening during the summer months.

Bring a group of friends or turn up on your own - a great way to meet new friends as everyone will be introduced! Walkers will be directed to a pub or restaurant afterwards, with just a short ride on the Docklands Light Railway. We hope this walk will appeal to commuters and other groups of office workers and think this is the perfect way to spend a summer evening.

The tour runs every Wednesday at 6pm until mid-August. For more information and booking details, go to the Mid-Week Evening Walk page

A guided walk starting on the other side of the Olympic Park from the Daily Walk and closer to the Velodrome and Athletes Village. It is also longer, so if you’re a regular walker this extended walk is the one for you! View all the main Olympic Park venues on this walk and discover why this part of London was chosen to host the greatest sporting event in the world. (Please note that members of the public are not allowed access to the interior of the Olympic Park).

The tour runs every Saturday afternoon at 1.45pm. For more information and booking details, go to the Other Olympic Walk page

For a thousand years the finest and strongest sportsmen met in Olympia every 4 years to show off their strength and skills and at the same time to honour their gods.

The story of the ancient Olympic Games comes to life in this tour of the British Museum where you will learn about the ancient games, the participants, their prizes and you will see these sportsmen taking part in the games, recorded for ever on some of the precious artifacts in the Museum. This tour is revelatory and full of surprises!

The tour starts at 10.30am and runs every Friday. For more information and booking details, go to the Olympic Connections page

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London 2012 Olympics: Locog needs to come clean on Games tickets

Anyone else on the Olympic ticket emotional rollercoaster?

One day I was overwhelmed with buyer remorse, panicking that my order was rather over-ambitious and over-extended.

The next day I was feeling all smug – safe in the knowledge that I did  the right thing by picking out cycling, swimming, the men’s 100m final – for they are the truly must have tickets.

The day of reckoning is nigh for all of us. In the next few days the London 2012 Olympic Games organisers will be either ripping money out of my account or leaving it alone. Either way I win.

London 2012 Olympics It’s tickets or a non-overdrawn account.

On the upside I can see where Locog has tried to be fair – offering a ballot system for the oversubscribed sessions, rather than favouring the computer experts able to manipulate systems to score the best seats in a first in best dressed system.

But there are plenty of twists in this particular ride. I still can’t fathom why they can’t tell us what we have secured at the same time as taking the money out.

They surely know what sessions have been allocated to each applicant in order take the money, so why the time lag and secrecy for another month?

Surely it’s not to create a massive sense of disappointment and a collective frenzy from those who missed out to sell the remaining less attractive seats?

Wouldn’t it have been simplier for Locog to give out ticket information as they process batches of orders, rather than have one big email-out on or before June 24?

Adding to the sudden drop in confidence is all purchasers have to wait an entire year to find out exactly where their seating will be in any venue, let alone a seat number.

How can Locog sell the tickets, yet claim it hasn’t finalised the seating plans?. How can Locog take the money, yet maintain we should trust them in dividing the venue into broadly equal divisions of categories?

After the Sydney Olympic Games ticket ballot it emerged that the organisers had just 14 ‘A’ category seats for sale to the Australian public to a diving final.

So Locog, come clean. How many A, B, C and D category tickets are for sale in each of the velodrome final sessions, or the opening ceremony, or the swim finals?

It is not good enough to be told a vague meaningless statistic that there are more than a million ticket orders for the men’s 100m final.

I am more interested in understanding that I had a realistic chance of getting a seat, and that the ballot system wasn’t simply bait advertising.

Such information is not commercially sensitive. It is about respecting the consumer – the people that are handing over £500 million to buy the tickets – and being a transparent organisation.

Monday, May 23, 2011

1.8 million apply tickets to see 100m final

Short battle between Tyson Gay Usain Bolt, is the most requested event upcoming Olympics, more than opening and closing ceremonies.
Ticket price – £ 2012
Organizing Committee of Olympic Games, has the biggest demand for tickets for the event, recorded in the athletic stadium attractive competition, more than the opening ceremony, final and swimming competitions.

London 2012 Olympics online training for police

An online awareness training package to help the police and emergency services prepare for the London 2012 Games has been launched. The aim is to increase understanding of the Games among the 250,000 police officers and staff plus 50,000 fire and ambulance personnel across Britain, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) said.

Key safety and security issues plus the demands on the emergency services are among the topics discussed in the first 30-minute package along with information about venues, the torch relay and cultural celebrations.

There will be three packages. The second, launched in September, will have more detail about operational planning, command and control structures, operating procedures and logistical arrangements. The final instalment, in March 2012, will provide operational briefings for the police. These final two packages are only for the police service to complete.

Police officers who are being drafted in from across the country for the Games must have completed all three packages. Forces must also confirm that staff have completed the training before being deployed.

NPIA chief executive Nick Gargan said: “It is crucial that all emergency staff work together to ensure safety and security at the London Games and events linked to them around the country.”

Vijay Kumar seventh Indian shooter to qualify for London Olympics

Source: The Hindu

Vijay Kumar was at his firing best at the crunch as he clinched the silver medal and the Olympic quota place in the 25-metre rapid fire pistol event in the shooting World Cup in Fort Benning, US, on Saturday.

The 25-year-old Himachal lad, a Subedar with the army, lost the final shoot-off 1-4 in a dramatic anti-climax to Christian Reitz of Germany, after having caught up with him with a perfect round in the last series.

With the new format for the rapid fire event, nullifying the qualification scores for the six shooters, Vijay Kumar with 584 was on par with Olympic bronze medallist Ding Feng of China who had topped with a score of 589.

Nerve-wracking performance

After the bottom three shooters were eliminated after the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds of 4-second series, Vijay found himself tied with the Chinese with 24 points. It was a nerve-wracking performance, as Vijay beat the Chinese 5-3 in the second shoot-off after the two had tied 4-4 in the first shoot-off, to ensure the Olympic quota place.

The best was yet to come, as Vijay unleashed a perfect 5 to match the eventual gold medallist who shot 4 in the eighth and last series of the final. However, in the shoot-off Vijay could muster one point to four by the German who also secured the Olympic quota.

Incidentally, in the final any shot that is 9.7 or above is considered as one, and the rest is treated as zero. In the 4-second series, a shooter fires at five targets in one motion within four seconds.

Second silver

It was the second silver in a World Cup for the six-time National champion, as Vijay had won a similar medal in Beijing in 2009.

In fact, he had made the World Cup final that season and finished fourth in the competition meant for the top-10 performers of the season.

After a string of below par scores in the last two World Cups in Sydney and Changwon when he shot 572 and 543, it was an impressive performance by Vijay, coached by Pavel Smirnov hired by the army, to have come up with a career-best score in qualification and an authoritative performance in the final.

Quite interestingly, Vijay, the triple gold-medallist in the Commonwealth Games at home, had failed to win a medal in rapid fire pistol in the Asian Games in Guangzhou last year, but pocketed individual bronze medals in the air pistol and centre-fire pistol events.

Vijay became the seventh Indian shooter, after Gagan Narang, Hariom Singh, Sanjeev Rajput, Ronjan Sodhi, Annuraj Singh and Rahi Sarnobat to clinch an Olympic quota for the London 2012 Games.

The results:

Men's 25m rapid fire pistol: 1. Christian Reitz (Ger) 29 (4) 584; 2. Vijay Kumar 29 (1) 584; 3. Ding Feng (Chn) 24 (589); 9. Pemba Tamang 580; 29. Gurpreet Singh 571. MQS: Mahendra Singh 554.

London 2012 announces Paralympic Games ticket prices

The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) today published its prices for Paralympic Games tickets, with more than half of the two million tickets available priced at £10 or less. More than 95 per cent of the tickets will be priced at £50 or less, with 75 per cent at £20 or less. Tickets for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies start at £20.12, with a top price of £500 for the Opening Ceremony.

The Paralympic Games takes place between 29 August and 9 September 2012, with 20 sports taking place at 19 venues. Tickets go on sale on the London 2012 ticketing website from 9 September 2011, with applications accepted until 30 September.

Ticketing initiatives
A number of ticketing initiatives have been designed to make the Games as accessible as possible for all spectators.

'Group Organiser' tickets are available in sessions with a ticket limit of 20 or more, and will allow groups who apply for 20 tickets or more per session to receive additional tickets at no extra charge. A Group Organiser applying for 20 tickets would receive two extra tickets at no extra charge, an application of 30 tickets would receive 33 tickets, and so on up to a Group Organiser applying for 50 tickets receiving a total of 55 tickets.

Special day passes have also been developed which will enable ticket holders to see a range of sports in the Olympic Park or at ExCeL on that day on a general admission basis.

Tickets for spectators who will be under 16 or over 60 on 29 August 2012 will start from just £5, while a London Travelcard is included within the price of tickets for the day of the event.

LOCOG CEO Paul Deighton commented: 'The Paralympic Games will light up London with quite simply brilliant sport next year.

'The UK is the spiritual home of the Paralympic movement and with superb medal prospects for ParalympicsGB, we believe that the British public will come out in their thousands to watch.

'We have created a fair pricing structure, which we hope will encourage people to come along and create fantastic atmospheres at our venues.'

Wheelchair spaces will be available in all price categories for every Paralympic sport, and the price of these tickets will include a companion seat next to it. Applicants who are deaf or have a hearing impairment, visually impaired people or people with limited mobility can indicate additional requirements.

The London 2012 ‘Ticketcare’ scheme will also feature, whereby any successful ticket applicant with high dependency care needs can apply for an additional ticket for their carer or PA.

One in eight London schoolchildren to get free Games tickets

London 2012 Chair Seb Coe and Mayor of London Boris Johnson have sent out a rallying cry to schools to ensure they do not miss out on tickets to London 2012.

London 2012 Tickets

LOCOG Chair Seb Coe and Mayor of London Boris Johnson meet pupils from The Compton School in Barnet to promote the Ticketshare scheme.

A total of 125,000 tickets are available to London schoolchildren through the Ticketshare scheme, which means one in eight will receive tickets to the Olympic or Paralympic Games.

A further 50,000 tickets will be distributed to schools across the UK, while 25,000 tickets will also be distributed by the British Olympic Association, British Paralympic Association, Sport England and Tickets for Troops.

The Ticketshare initiative is part of the London 2012 Get Set network, the official London 2012 education programme for schools and colleges across the UK.
Tickets are donated through a levy placed on London 2012 hospitality packages sold by Prestige Hospitality.

LOCOG Chair Seb Coe commented: 'Schools and colleges across London and the UK have a golden opportunity to give some of their pupils the chance of a lifetime – tickets to see the greatest show on earth. More than 18,000 schools have taken the first step towards claiming their tickets by registering with Get Set.

'Now is the time for them to go one step further and apply to join the Get Set network and claim their Ticketshare tickets. I am hugely grateful both to Prestige Ticketing and to the Mayor of London who is fully supportive of the scheme to ensure tickets for London schoolchildren.’

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said, ‘I can think of none more deserving to have a ringside seat at the world’s greatest sporting event than the next generation of Londoners. So there’s not a moment to waste to ensure your school gets its tickets and embraces the spirit and excitement of the London Games during the build up to 2012.'

Over 3,000 schools are part of the London 2012 Get Set network currently and have already been guaranteed an allocation of tickets.

In order to be eligible to receive their allocation of tickets, schools must submit an application to join the Get Set programme by 16 December 2011.

London 2012 volunteer selection programme arrives in the North East

Selection for London 2012 volunteers started in the North East today as the sixth regional Games Maker selection event opened its doors.

London 2012 Board Member

London 2012 Board Member Jonathan Edwards and former GB Swimmer Chris Cook join Games Maker applicants at the launch of the selection event

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle will welcome an estimated 3,000 applicants between now and 3 June.
They will be able to explore an exhibition about the Games and meet LOCOG staff before a 30-minute interview.
The interviews are the second stage in the process to be a London 2012 volunteer. In September 2010 the public were invited to apply to become part of the London 2012 Games Maker programme, with over 250,000 people signing up.

London 2012 Board Member Jonathan Edwards said: ‘London 2012 volunteers will be the face of the Games – every role counts, from collecting tickets to welcoming athletes at the airport. It’s vital we find the right people for these roles, and we are delighted to bring the search to the North East today.

'Games-time volunteers are vital to the success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games; from the athletes to organisers, from the media to the public, we all rely on the volunteers to deliver successful sporting events. The Games Makers will help make London 2012 the greatest show on earth.’

A further three selection events will take place around the UK before the end of August 2011. The next selection event is scheduled to take place at Cardiff's Coal Exchange between 7 18 June. An interview centre at London’s ExCel Centre opened on 1 February 2011 and will remain active until March 2012.

London 2012 announces Brands Hatch as Paralympic Road Cycling venue

Brands Hatch, near Sevenoaks in Kent, will host the Paralympic Road Cycling events, incorporating the Road Race and Time Trial, from 5-8 September 2012.

Paralympic gold medallist

LOCOG Chair Seb Coe, Paralympic gold medallist Rachel Morris and Jonathan Palmer, Chief Executive of MotorSport Vision, celebrate the announcement at Brands Hatch

The riders will race round a course that passes through the county of Kent and the district of Sevenoaks in Kent. The former F1 Grand Prix circuit at Brands Hatch will be the base for approximately half of the course including the start and finish. The remaining race will take place on local roads nearby.

This announcement marks the final venue to be confirmed for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and pays homage to Brands Hatch’s cycling routes, as it first developed in the 1920s as a grass track cycle racing venue.
The course was chosen after extensive consultation with the relevant local authorities and stakeholders to find a route that will provide an outstanding experience for both athletes and spectators. It will also allow LOCOG to use much of the existing venue infrastructure at Brands Hatch and is within approximately one hour’s travel time of the Athletes’ Village on the Olympic Park.
Requirements for the Paralympic Road Cycling course are very precise – the course has to be suitable and challenging for a wide variety of disability groups. The requirements are based on a loop course of 7-10km, which is completed a different number of times based on the event distance.

Approximately 25 per cent of the course is uphill sections of not more than six per cent gradient and the route includes some challenging bends or technical sections, while the road width is adequate to allow for bunch sprints in the finish straight.
During the London 2012 Paralympic Games there will be 32 Road Cycling events for men and women with a range of disabilities including visual impairments, cerebral palsy and amputations competing on bicycles, tricycles, tandems and hand cycles.
The events will be ticketed in large part, but part of the route will be free for spectators to line the route providing a fantastic way of watching high profile action. Tickets will cost £10 and there will also be Special Price tickets available (£5 for young people aged 16 and under and seniors aged 60 and over) as well as Group Organiser tickets for large groups which will see them receive additional tickets at no extra cost.

Wimbledon Way project launched for Olympics 2012 tennis

A project to turn the route from Wimbledon station to the All England Club into a walking tourist attraction would bring the community together and give the borough a lasting Olympic legacy, it has been claimed.

The chief executive of Merton Chamber of Commerce, (MCoC) Diana Sterck, made the comments as she launched the Wimbledon Way proposal at the home the All England Club, but warned there was “only a year to do it”.

She said visitors would be guided along a marked route – which goes from the station to Wimbledon High Street and in to Church Lane – with “interpretation boards” along the way providing them with history, news and other information as they walk through three different zones.

Ms Sterck said the project – part of which must be completed in time for next year’s Olympics – would “bring the community together to embrace our heritage, the arts and the town’s connection with tennis”.

She said: “With an estimated 500,000 visitors to London, south London should benefit by providing a strong offer in relation to its accommodation, attractions and history and heritage.”

One of the zones, Victory Walk, would celebrate tennis events and personalities, she said adding the route could be dotted with public art installations and used year-round for events.

MCoC has secured some project funding from Young’s brewery, which has three pubs along the route – the Alexandra, Dog and Fox and the Fire Stables – and the Wimbledon Village Business Association.

It is also in the process of submitting a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund for extra cash.

The Wimbledon Society and Wimbledon Film have also agreed to provide content and the group said it had support from the council and politicians.

Ms Sterck said: “With the support of Merton Council I know we can establish the Wimbledon Way as a permanent feature in SW19 and achieve the Olympic legacy for Wimbledon and south-west London.”

For further information visit wimbledongoingforgold.co.uk.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

39 Olympic Logos From 1924 to 2012

Living in Vancouver, Canada, I’ve been seeing the logo of the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games more and more around the city as the date draws closer.

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how the design trends in Olympic logos have evolved over the years.

Noticeably, the logos seem to have changed from a monochromatic trend to a more multicolor approach in recent years.

Logo design seems to have been streamlined to simpler and cleaner shapes. This article features every logo from the summer and winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2012.

Paris – Summer 1924

2012 London Olympic games

Lake Placid – Winter 1932

2012 London Olympic games

Los Angeles – Summer 1932

2012 London Olympic games

Garmisch-Partenkirchen – Winter 1936

2012 London Olympic games

Berlin – Summer 1936

2012 London Olympic games

St. Moritz – Winter 1948

2012 London Olympic games

London – Summer 1948

2012 London Olympic games

Oslo – Winter 1952

2012 London Olympic games

Helsinki – Summer 1952

2012 London Olympic games

Cortina d’Ampezzo – Winter 1956

2012 London Olympic games

Melbourne / Stockholm – Summer 1956

2012 London Olympic games

Squaw Valley – Winter 1960

2012 London Olympic games

Rome – Summer 1960

2012 London Olympic games

Innsbruck – Winter 1964

2012 London Olympic games

Tokyo – Summer 1964

2012 London Olympic games

Grenoble – Winter 1968

2012 London Olympic games

Mexico – Summer 1968

2012 London Olympic games

Sapporo – Winter 1972

2012 London Olympic games

Munich – Summer 1972

2012 London Olympic games

Innsbruck – Winter 1976

2012 London Olympic games

Montreal – Summer 1976

2012 London Olympic games

Lake Placid – Winter 1980

2012 London Olympic games

Moscow – Summer 1980

2012 London Olympic games

Sarajevo – Winter 1984

2012 London Olympic games

Los Angeles – Summer 1984

2012 London Olympic games

Calgary – Winter 1988

Olympic games

Seoul – Summer 1988

Olympic games

Albertville – Winter 1992

Olympic games

Barcelona – Summer 1992

Olympic games

Lillehammer – Winter 1994

Olympic games

Atlanta – Summer 1996

Olympic games

Nagano – Winter 1998

Olympic games

Sydney – Summer 2000

Olympic games

Salt Lake City – Winter 2002

Olympic games

Athens – Summer 2004

Olympic games

Turin – Winter 2006

Olympic games

Beijing – Summer 2008

Olympic games

Vancouver – Winter 2010

Olympic games

London – Summer 2012

london 2012 logo

Which is your favorite logo and what do you think of the logos of the upcoming Vancouver and London games?

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

London 2012: Paralympic prices to be revealed

The prices for next year's London 2012 Paralympic tickets are due to be announced later.

Two million tickets for 20 sports will go on sale from 9 to 30 September.

More than 4,200 athletes from about 150 countries are expected to participate at the Games from 29 August to 9 September 2012.

The announcement follows Olympic ticket sales, which saw about 1.8 million people apply for 6.6 million tickets.

Those tickets were hugely over-subscribed, organisers said, with the total demand topping 20 million tickets.

_52648513_011782529-1 Adult prices for the Olympics ranged from £20 to £2,012 for the best ticket for the opening ceremony, with some concessions available.

The Paralympic games will be staged in many of the Olympic venues, including the Olympic stadium (athletics), aquatics centre (swimming) and velodrome (cycling), as well as the likes of Eton Dorney (rowing), Weymouth (sailing) and Greenwich Park (equestrian para-dressage).

The Olympic Park will also stage the five-a-side and seven-a-side football at the Olympic hockey centre and goalball at the Olympic handball arena, as well as wheelchair rugby and wheelchair basketball at the Olympic basketball arena, although some basketball will also be held at the North Greenwich Arena.

The ExCel exhibition centre in the Docklands will host boccia, judo, sitting volleyball, wheelchair fencing, table tennis and powerlifting. The wheelchair tennis events will be staged at Eton Manor while the archery and shooting will both be held at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games is expected to announce how tickets will be allocated on Wednesday.

For the Olympic Games, there has been criticism of the prices, the ballot system and the fact that money is taken from accounts before applicants know which events they have secured.

Applicants were originally told to make sure they had enough money in their accounts from 10 May to 10 June.

But organisers now say people will not be billed until next Monday at the earliest while they carry out ballots for oversubscribed events.

London 2012 Olympics: football should follow IOC example to tackle corruption

Thus, Lord Triesman said FIFA are corrupt elements. What's New? Claims against the majority of the members of FIFA have been released for over a decade. Certainly, England 2018 bidders that have been well aware of the bar to talk about who is sensitive to some interesting proposals, whether women or cash, or in the case of a member, according to Lord Triesman, a gentleman of honor the queen.

However, England went ahead in 2018 and participated in the bidding process in any way. Several million pounds have been allocated under the pretext of winning more than a dozen members to vote - for good, because - according to application managers in England.

But now with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport committee reviews what happened in England 2018, and both shameful results of the vote, the intense questioning can be addressed by a national audience, but England international cement only an arrogant, distant , and a very unfortunate attitude sour grapes.

triesman

The committee is trying to blame others for the failures of England? While the ambush of his first witness, Qatar 2022 consultant Mike Lee, who appeared to be a clumsy attempt to undermine the success of Qatar.

Testimony given before the committee of journalists quoting unnamed whistle on alleged corruption had already been sent to FIFA. But the committee apparently frustrated that FIFA had seemed to do something with the material.

"The committee wants to win now as the ethics of FIFA? If the government was not prepared for a loss, why the game features first?

Lee, who also worked near triumph of London 2012 Olympic bid campaign, said football could be a disservice if the committee seemed to blame everybody.

However, Lord Triesman claims on the operation of bribery of FIFA evokes a wonderful time at the end of 1998, when an old Swiss IOC member Marc Hodler was descending the stairs to the IOC headquarters in Vidy Castle and pronounced similar claims of corruption against some of his colleagues on the successful bid of Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games 2002.

IOC was forced to lay off six members, to provide a broad reforms and a policy of transparency, so that all donations are now banned, and members can not visit the candidate cities.

Around the same time governments - particularly the U.S., Britain and Australia - have wanted to be seen participating in activities and forced the IOC to take a strong opposition to the drug problem in sport and helped to pay for an independent World Anti Doping Agency. Political participation is not only a fast track to help eradicate doping in sport, the country continues to pay half the cost.

Triesman also maintains, despite his team after his attempt to remove the vanity and blabbing is a young woman is forced Fifa to implement serious reform measures, if only the time square is the center of the Fifa presidential elections.

But if the committee DCMS really wants clean World Cup and have an impact on the world of sport, they could look no further than the biggest scourge facing football today: match fixing and illegal paris.

Like the IOC has done more than a decade of drug Fifa will certainly accept political interference in the issue of the fight against corruption.

Olympics 2012: Network Rail deal with union prompts calls for tube pact

Boris Johnson is facing calls to sign an agreement not to strike with the union RMT for the 2012 Olympics, after Network Rail has signed an agreement that reduces the threat of a strike next summer.

News of the agreement came as the London Underground said that two weeks of work stoppages in the pipe that motorists begins next Monday, was canceled. The RMT has rejected the request.

Network Rail and the RMT has agreed that any labor dispute during the games will be directed to the conciliation service ACA, without work stoppages that occur during these discussions.

Network Rail said: "In case of conflict, or time limit existing or new during the Olympics automatically referred to ACAS to decide, and industrial activities may take place while we are still in negotiations with ACAS."

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An RMT spokesman denied that the agreement was an agreement not to strike because it "recognizes the continuing right to withdraw from the job."

Under the agreement, members of the RMT working overtime during the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games between July 27 and September 9, will receive € 500 in additional compensation. It is understood that the agreement applies to about 800 Network Rail staff who work overtime during the games.

An agreement by a long-standing dispute with markers and office workers, about 10,000 Network Rail employees receive a wage increase of 5.2% this year - 0.5% above inflation - an increase additional salary CPI plus 5% next year.

Bob Crow, RMT General Secretary said: "The package recognizes the important role that transport workers are expected to play during the game and rewarding financially, by protecting their trade union rights at the same time.

"At this time of austerity, we believe that the £ 500 allowance and 10% on the core is a good agreement and show that strong unions can provide to members."

Network Rail deal sparked calls for a similar deal for Transport for London, where it is expected the pipeline network to transport millions of stock a lot of hits during the game.

Caroline Pidgeon, the Chairman of the London Assembly transport, said: "They're going to find something for the Olympic Games can not be interference when we have the world watching us .."

Johnson Mayor of London said he did not crow when TfL RMT is a dispute. Two have yet to meet, because the Union was a kind of dispute with TfL Johnson was elected.

The mayor urged the government to consider legislation that would limit the strike by prohibiting any strike is not sustained by the vote of more than 50% of staff participated.

He repeated calls last week when the RMT voted two weeks in the driver tube ulosmarssien fired on two points.

London Underground said the operation had been canceled after a review of TfL motorists following the employment tribunal. Eamonn Lynch, Bakerloo line driver fired for violation of safety standards, has been found to be unfairly dismissed and return to TfL is "the role of non-driver," TfL said.

Mike Brown, director of the London Underground, said: "As we have always said, was set up mechanisms for individual disputes, and is a process that is followed here.

"After a meeting with management this morning RMT, the RMT have withdrawn their threat to strike and we have avoided serious disruption to London."

The RMT has denied that the strikes have been canceled. "The strike in the dispute victimization London Underground has not been canceled," said a union spokesman.

"We have not received any confirmation of the offer following the London Underground earlier discussions. If and when a written confirmation of all offers will be considered our executive and an explanation should be given RMT.

 
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