Thursday, 30 July 200927 July marked three years to go until the start of the London 2010 Olympic Games, and the London 2010 Organising Committee and its partners held a number of events to celebrate the this landmark date.
Those included the tour of athletes of Great Britain Olympic Team to the Olympic Park and the new Javelin trains that will bring up to 25,000 spectators per hour into the Olympic Park at Games time.
LOCOG has made solid progress with its preparations to stage the Game since its election in Singapore in 2005. Construction on all permanent venues in the Olympic Park well underway.
The external structure of the Olympic Stadium is now complete, the roof structure of the Aquatics Centre is over half way finished, and work is also progressing well on the Olympic Village, the Velodrome, the IBC/MPC and the transport and infrastructure projects needed for the Games and their legacy.
London was elected as the Host City for the Games of the XXX Olympiad on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore. London eventually succeeded in the fourth round of voting, taking 54 votes from a possible 104.
London faced stiff opposition during the vote from the other four candidate cities: Paris, New York, Moscow and Madrid. There will be 26 sports on the Olympic Programme in London in 2012 and around 10,500 athletes. |
Thursday, 30 July 2009
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