London Olympic 2012 Ticket Prices

Below is a full summary of the actual prices of London Olympic tickets for all sports.

Opening & Closing Ceremonies:

• Opening Ceremony Olympic Park: Olympic Stadium £2,012 £1,600 £995 £150 £20.12
• Closing Ceremony Olympic Park: Olympic Stadium £1,500 £995 £655 £150 £20.12

Archery - Lord's Cricket Ground

• Preliminary M/W £65 £45 £30 £20
• Final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30

Athletics - Olympic Park - Olympic Stadium

• Preliminary M/W £150 £95 £65 £40 £20
• Final M/W £450 £295 £150 £95 £50
• Super final M/W £725 £420 £295 £125 £50

Athletics - Marathon London

• Final M/W £50 £30 £20

Athletics - Race Walk London

• Final M/W £30 £20

Badminton - Wembley Arena Preliminary M/W £75 £50 £35 £20
Quarter-final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30
Semi-final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30
Final M/W £150 £95 £65 £45

Basketball - Olympic Park - Basketball Arena Preliminary M £95 £65 £40 £20
M £115 £75 £45 £30
W Yes £75 £50 £35 £20
Quarter-final W £95 £65 £40 £20
North Greenwich Arena Quarter-final M £125 £85 £55 £45 £35
Semi-final M £150 £110 £95 £65 £45
W £125 £85 £55 £45 £35
Bronze M £325 £225 £150 £95 £50
W £150 £110 £95 £65 £45
Final M £425 £295 £185 £125 £95
W £325 £225 £150 £95 £50

Beach Volleyball - Horse Guards Parade Preliminary M/W £95 £65 £50 £40 £20
Round of 16 M/W £110 £75 £55 £45 £30
Quarter-final M/W £125 £95 £75 £65 £45
Semi-final M/W £225 £150 £110 £95 £65
Final M/W £450 £295 £185 £125 £95

Boxing - ExCeL Preliminary M/W £95 £75 £50 £30 £20
Quarter-final M/W £110 £75 £55 £45 £30
Semi-final M £150 £95 £75 £50 £30
W £110 £75 £55 £45 £30
Final M £395 £295 £185 £125 £95
W £275 £185 £125 £95 £50

Canoe Slalom - Lee Valley White Water Centre Preliminary M/W £60 £45 £30 £20
Final M/W £150 £95 £55 £35

Canoe Sprint - Eton Dorney Preliminary M/W Yes £60 £40 £20
Final M/W £95 £55 £35

Cycling - BMX Olympic Park - BMX Circuit Preliminary M/W £95 £65 £55 £40 £20
Final M/W £125 £75 £55 £45 £20

Cycling - Mountain Bike Hadleigh Farm, Essex Final M/W £45 £20

Cycling - Road (Road Race) London Final M/W £60 £40 £20

Cycling - Road (Time Trial) London Final M/W £60 £40 £20

Cycling - Track Olympic Park - Velodrome Preliminary M/W £150 £95 £65 £40 £20
Final M/W £325 £225 £150 £95 £50

Diving Olympic Park - Aquatics Centre Preliminary M/W £150 £95 £65 £40 £20
M/W £175 £120 £80 £50 £30
Semi-final M/W £175 £120 £80 £50 £30
M/W £225 £125 £90 £50 £30
Final M/W £225 £125 £90 £50 £30
M/W £450 £295 £185 £95 £50

Equestrian - Dressage - Greenwich Park Preliminary M/W £95 £65 £40 £20
Final M/W £150 £95 £55 £35
M/W £275 £175 £95 £65

Equestrian - Eventing
(dressage, jumping only) Greenwich Park Preliminary M/W £95 £65 £40 £20
Final M/W £150 £95 £55 £35
Equestrian - Eventing
(cross-country only) Greenwich Park Preliminary M/W £55
Equestrian - Jumping Greenwich Park Preliminary M/W £95 £65 £40 £20
Final M/W £150 £95 £55 £35
M/W £275 £175 £95 £65

Fencing - ExCeL Preliminary M/W Yes £65 £45 £30 £20
Final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30

Football - City of Coventry Stadium, Coventry Preliminary M/W £40 £30 £20
Quarter-final W £50 £40 £20
Bronze W £60 £45 £30
Hampden Park, Glasgow Preliminary M/W £40 £30 £20
Quarter-final W £50 £40 £20
Millennium Stadium, Cardiff Preliminary M/W £40 £30 £20
Quarter-final M/W £50 £40 £20
Bronze M £75 £45 £30
Old Trafford, Manchester Preliminary M/W £40 £30 £20
Quarter-final M £50 £40 £20
Semi-final M £125 £75 £45 £30
W Yes £50 £40 £20
St Jamesâ?? Park, Newcastle Preliminary M/W £40 £30 £20
Quarter-final M/W £50 £40 £20
Wembley Stadium Preliminary M/W £60
£45 £30 £20
Quarter-final M £60
£45 £30 £20
Semi-final M £125 £75 £45 £30
W £60
£45 £30 £20
Final M £185 £125 £95 £65 £40
W £125 £95 £65 £45 £30

Gymnastics - Artistic - North Greenwich Arena Preliminary M/W £150 £95 £65 £40 £20
Final M/W £450 £295 £185 £95 £50

Gymnastics - Rhythmic - Wembley Arena Preliminary W £95 £65 £40 £20
Final W £175 £125 £65 £45

Gymnastics - Trampoline - North Greenwich Arena Final M/W £185 £115 £75 £40 £20

Handball - Olympic Park - Handball Arena Preliminary M/W £50 £40 £30 £20
Quarter-final W £75 £50 £35 £20
Olympic Park - Basketball Arena Quarter-final M £75 £50 £35 £20
Semi-final M/W £75 £50 £35 £20
Bronze M/W £95 £65 £45 £35
Final M/W £125 £95 £65 £45

Hockey - Olympic Park - Hockey Centre Preliminary M/W £65 £45 £35 £20
Classification M/W £65 £45 £35 £20
Semi-final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30
Bronze M/W £115 £75 £45 £35
Final M/W £150 £95 £65 £45
Judo ExCeL Preliminary M/W £85 £55 £35 £20
Final M/W £125 £95 £65 £45
Modern Pentathlon Greenwich Park Final M/W £35 £20
All venues Final M/W £75

Rowing - Eton Dorney Preliminary M/W £95 £65 £50 £40 £20
Final M/W £150 £95 £70 £50 £30
Sailing Weymouth and Portland Preliminary M/W £35 £20
Final M/W £55

Shooting - The Royal Artillery Barracks Preliminary M/W Yes £20
Final M/W £30
M/W £40

Swimming - Olympic Park - Aquatics Centre Preliminary M/W £150 £95 £65 £40 £20
Final M/W £450 £295 £185 £95 £50

Swimming - Marathon Hyde Park Final M/W £60 £40 £20

Synchronised Swimming - Olympic Park - Aquatics Centre Preliminary W £95 £75 £50 £30 £20
Final W £175 £120 £80 £50 £30

Table Tennis - ExCeL Preliminary M/W £85 £55 £35 £20
Quarter-final M/W £85 £55 £35 £20
Semi-final M/W £85 £55 £35 £20
Bronze M/W £110 £75 £45 £30
Final M/W £125 £95 £65 £45

Taekwondo - ExCeL Preliminary M/W £60 £45 £30 £20
Quarter-final
Semi-final M/W £85 £55 £35 £20
Final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30

Tennis - Wimbledon - Outer Courts Preliminary M/W £20
Quarter-final M/W £20
Wimbledon - No.1 Court Preliminary M/W £55 £40 £30
Quarter-final M/W £75 £45 £35
Semi-final M/W £75 £45 £35
Bronze M/W Yes £95 £55 £35
Wimbledon - Centre Court Preliminary M/W £85 £65 £55 £40 £30
Quarter-final M/W £115 £75 £65 £45 £35
Semi-final M/W £115 £75 £65 £45 £35
Final M/W £185 £125 £110 £95 £65
M/W £225 £150 £110 £95 £65
Triathlon Hyde Park Final M/W £60 £40 £20

Volleyball - Earls Court Preliminary M/W £65 £55 £45 £30 £20
Quarter-final M/W £95 £65 £55 £45 £30
Semi-final M/W £115 £85 £75 £65 £40
Bronze M/W £115 £85 £75 £65 £40
Final M/W £185 £150 £125 £95 £65

Water Polo - Olympic Park - Water Polo Arena Preliminary M/W £65 £45 £30 £20
Classification M/W £65 £45 £30 £20
Quarter-final M/W £65 £45 £30 £20
Semi-final M/W £95 £65 £45 £30
Final M/W £185 £125 £95 £65

Weightlifting - ExCeL Preliminary M/W £65 £45 £30 £20
Final M/W £125 £95 £65 £45
M/W £175 £125 £65 £45

Wrestling - Freestyle ExCeL Preliminary M/W £65 £45 £35 £20
Final M/W £95 £55 £35 £20

Wrestling - Greco-Roman ExCeL Preliminary M £65 £45 £35 £20
Final M £95 £55 £35 £20

Index:

M: Male

W: Women

Source: www.london2012.com

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London Olympics 2012 Venues

The main venues for the London 2012 Olympic Games

Venue	Sports	Capacity
All England Tennis Club	Tennis	30,000
Aquatics Centre	Diving, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo, Paralympic Swimming, Modern Pentathlon.	17,500 for Diving and Swimming events and 5,000 for Water Polo
Basketball Arena	Basketball, Handball, Wheelchair Basketball, Wheelchair Rugby	12,000 during the Olympic games; 10,000 during the Paralympic Games
Earls Court	Indoor Volleyball	15,000
Eton Domey	Rowing, Canoe Sprint, Paralympic Rowing	30,000
Eton Manor	Wheelchair Tennis	10,500
ExCeL	Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Boccia, Paralympic Table Tennis, Paralympic Judo, Paralympic Powerlifting, Sitting Volleyball, Wheelchair Fencing.	ExCeL will be divided into 4 sports halls with capacities ranging from 6,000 to 10,000
Greenwich Park	Equestrian- Jumping, Dressage, Eventing and Paralympic Equestrian. Also Modern Pentathlon.	23,000
Hadleigh Park	Mountain Bike	3,000, not including standing around the course
Handball Arena	Handball, Goalball, Modern Pentathlon	7,000
Hockey Centre	Hockey, Paralympic 5-a-side Football, Paralympic 7-a-side Football	New venue, composed of two pitches, the main pitch with a capacity of 15,000 and the second pitch with a capacity of 5,000
Horse Guards Parade	Beach Volleyball	15,000
Hyde Park	Triathlon, 10k Open Water Swim	3,000
Lee Valley White Water Centre	Canoe Slalom	12,000
Lord's Cricket Ground	Archery	6,500
North Greenwich Arena	Artistic Gymnastics, Trampoline, Basketball, Wheelchair Basketball	20,000
Olympic Stadium	Athletics, Paralympic Athletics	Stadium is being built from scratch and aims to be constructed by next year. 55,000 of the 80,000 capacity is removable, which apparently has never been attempted before.
Olympic Village	All Athletes and Officials	As well as residential apartments, the village will comprise of shops, restaurants, medical, media and leisure facilities. There will also be a 'Plaza', where athletes can meet up with friends and families.
Regent's Park	Road Cycling	It will provide the location for the finish of the Road event in front of a temporary stand of 3,000 spectators
The Royal Artillery Park	Shooting, Paralympic Shooting, Paralympic Archery	7,500
Velo Park	Track Cycling, BMX, Paralympic Track Cycling	6000 in the Velodrome (permanent), 6000 at the BMX track (temporary)
Wembley Arena	Badminton, Rhythmic Gymnastics	6,000
Weymouth and Portland Harbour	Sailing, Paralympic Sailing	Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour provide some of the best natural sailing waters anywhere in the UK, along with facilities to match on land

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History of the Olympics in London

1908	Summer Olympics held in London The Games of the IV Olympiad) were the third to be hosted outside of Athens and were scheduled to take place in Rome, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 7 April 1906 required the Italian Government to redirect funds away from the Olympics. The events took place between 27 April 1908 and 31 October 1908, with 22 nations participating in 110 events. The British team easily topped the unofficial medal count, finishing with three times as many medals as the second-place United States.
1944	1944 Summer Olympics Cancelled The Summer Olympics of 1944 were to be held in London having been awarded in 1939. However, they were cancelled due to World War II. In lieu of the Olympics, a small celebratory sporting competition was held in Lausanne, at IOC HQ.
1948	The 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Games were the first to be held after World War II, with the 1944 Summer Olympics having been cancelled due to the war. 59 nations (Germany and Japan had not been invited) competed in 136 events between 29 July 1948 and 14 August 1948. due to security reasons. British athletes finished 12th in the unofficial medal count with only 23 medals.
2000	The UK Bids In December 2000 a report from the British Olympic Association was shown to Government ministers. They had been working on the bid since 1997.
2005	The London 2012 Olympic bid was announced as the winner of the bidding process on 6 July 2005.
2008	2008 Summer Olympics To be held in Beijing, China between August 8, 2008 and August 24, 2008. Concerns have been raised that many events will be compromised by problems with pollution and air quality.
2012	2012 Summer Olympics The Games will take place between 27 July 2012 and 12 August 2012. 2012 Summer Paralympic Games The fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August 2012 and 9 September 2012 at the Summer Olympics venues in London.

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Young royals take centre stage at London Olympics 2012

You can't hold the London Olympics without the British royals, now can you?

The two have been intertwined over the years like the Olympic rings themselves. At the London Games this summer, they'll be everywhere -- Wills and Kate, Harry and Zara, the queen and Prince Philip -- posing, pronouncing, maybe even participating.

These games will showcase a whole new royal generation: the elegant Duchess of Cambridge, whose fairy-tale wedding last year was watched by hundreds of millions; the irrepressible Prince Harry, at 27 one of the world's most eligible bachelors; and another one of Queen Elizabeth II's grandchildren, Zara Phillips, who is seeking a berth on the British equestrian team just like both her parents did years ago.

Prince William, his wife Kate and Harry will all be Olympic ambassadors. It's not clear what any of the royals will actually be doing or where they will be appearing, but British officials and tourism experts consider their presence vital.

"They're great for attracting publicity," said Joe Little, the managing editor of Majesty magazine. "Everybody wants to see the Duchess of Cambridge. ... It's the youth-and-glamour thing."

Visit Britain says some 30 million people come to the country each year to see its cultural heritage -- such as Buckingham Palace, the changing of the guard and the Beefeaters at the Tower of London.

Britain's culture and heritage sites bring in 4.5 billion pounds ($7 billion) of the 17 billion pounds ($26.6 billion) spent by overseas visitors annually. This being an Olympic year -- and the queen's 60th Jubilee anniversary to boot -- the focus on U.K. palaces and royals will be magnified.

To make the most of things, the monarch plans to open Buckingham Palace to accommodate Olympic activities.

A tourism promotion is being launched to coincide with the July 27-Aug. 12 games: the GREAT campaign, as in Great Britain. It hopes to capitalize on the Olympic excitement and bring an extra 2 billion pounds ($1.5 billion) of tourism spending into Britain's beleaguered economy.

Harry did his bit to build excitement last week in Jamaica, donning a jersey emblazoned with Jamaica's green, black and gold colours and clowning around with 100-meter champion Usain Bolt. They joked and "raced" one another, meeting on the track to strike a mock lightning bolt pose, Bolt's signature.

"I am not directly involved in the (Olympic) organization, otherwise who knows what might happen?" the helicopter pilot-trainee prince joked. "If work permits me, I will definitely get the chance, hopefully, to visit as many events as possible."

The royals and the Olympics have long been intertwined, going back to a time when only the very rich could afford to train and remain amateurs.

London took on the Olympics for the first time in 1908, after Mount Vesuvius erupted in Rome, forcing Italy to pull out. King Edward VII lobbied for Britain to host those games, playing a key role in persuading the government to accept the task at a time when the Olympics were largely unknown.

"That kind of gave it legitimacy," said Martin Polley, an Olympic historian at the University of Southampton. The thinking was "if (the royals) are backing it, it must be serious."

London next hosted the games in 1948, with King George VI presiding as the Olympic flag was raised for the first time since the end of World War II.

At the time, the royals were more famous than the games themselves. Fanny Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands, who won four gold medals in 1948 in track and field, told of her disappointment upon hearing the British national anthem after a close race with a British competitor. Blankers-Koen thought she'd lost -- but actually it was just the royal family entering the stadium to take their seats, Polley said.

Queen Elizabeth II will open this summer's games, like her father and great-grandfather once did. She is not new to the job, opening the Montreal Olympics in 1976, where her daughter Princess Anne competed with her horse, Goodwill.

Anne, a member of the 2012 London organizing committee, remembers her Olympic experience fondly, even though she did fall off Goodwill.

"It proved something ... in your sporting experience," she said in a BBC interview. "For the old dinosaurs, the amateurs like me, I think that was a rare treat."

The whole royal family showed up to watch her in Montreal -- a scenario likely to be repeated this summer in London if Anne's 30-year-old daughter Zara makes the team. She had been named to the 2008 Olympic team in Beijing but her horse became injured before the games and could not compete.

Zara's father, Mark Phillips, won equestrian gold in the 1972 Munich Olympics and silver at the 1988 Seoul Games.

The queen is known to love horses, but besides anything featuring Zara, it's not clear which Olympic events might be graced by royalty.

The princes are rugby fans, but that's not an Olympic event. They also like polo, but only the water version is featured at the games. William is president of the England's soccer federation, but the sport has a low profile in the Olympics. Kate is known to be outdoorsy and once trained for a Dragon boat competition. She captained her high school field hockey team, and visited Britain's women's team Thursday at Olympic Park to offer a morale boost.

Harry reportedly likes women's beach volleyball -- which just happens to be played in scanty Olympic outfits -- and he'll probably want to see his friend Bolt run.

But the royal impact is more than just being seen. Harry told reporters in Jamaica he wants to encourage children to be active.

"It's massively important to get young kids out doing sport," Harry said. "I know that when I was at school, sport was the best thing. Being stuck in the classroom wasn't."

He paused.

"I probably shouldn't have said that," he grinned.

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Australia's Leisel Jones off to fourth Olympics

Former breaststroke queen Leisel Jones will compete at her fourth Olympics in London this year after finishing second in the 100-metres event at Australia's selection trials on Saturday.

Jones, 26, a triple Olympic gold medallist and former world record holder, had to settle for second to emerging star Leiston Pickett in the final in Adelaide, with both clinching spots on the Australian team to London.

'Lethal' Leisel becomes the first Australian swimmer to compete at four Olympic Games.

Pickett claimed the gold medal in one minute 06.88 seconds with Jones second in 1:07.64.

Jones, who was Australia's youngest-ever Olympics swimming medallist at 15 at the 2000 Sydney Games, is her country's greatest breaststroker with eight Olympic medals, 14 at the world championships and a 10-time Commonwealth Games champion.

"Mission accomplished. Leiston is champion, well done. I'm so excited to bring you along," Jones said.

"I didn't think I would ever make it to four Olympics... that's just an absolute dream. I'm so excited. I did a lot of media saying that I was going to my fourth Olympics, so I'm glad I did it."

Pickett, 20, qualified for her first Olympics with her winning time equalling American champion Rebecca Soni's year's best time.

"I like to think so (changing of the guard)," Pickett said. "I've always looked up to Leisel as I was growing up and swimming against her and to finally beat her in the 100m, hopefully I can stay number one.

"There is so much competition throughout the world in the breaststroke, Rebecca Soni is currently the number one, and being up with Australia puts us up there in the world. It's going to be good to get over to London and get some good racing."

Thomas Fraser-Holmes won his second title of the Australian championships with the 200-metres freestyle in 1:46.88 from Kenrick Monk (1:47.16) in the absence of Olympic great Ian Thorpe who failed to make the final.

Fraser-Holmes will be swimming in two events at the London Games after winning the 400m medley on Thursday's opening night.

Emily Seebohm will be competing at her second Olympics after winning the 100m backstroke in 59.28secs from Belinda Hocking (59.41), while Hayden Stoeckel (53.98) and Daniel Arnamnart (54.05) will be Australia's representatives in the men's 100m backstroke in London.

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