OLYMPIC PARK: A new wildlife habitat

Olympic Park will installed a new home for wild-life. It has a hectares of different wildlife soon to be released in the park.

So far, three bat boxes and eight bird boxes for black redstarts and house sparrows have been installed within the structure of the site’s pumping station, and a black Redstart box has been made from recycled utilities pipe and placed within the gabion wall in one of the Olympic Stadium bridges.

Richard Jackson, Environment Manager for the ODA said: 'We are creating one of the largest new urban parks in Europe and we are doing this with sustainability at the heart of our plans. It is therefore fitting that local wildlife are some of the first beneficiaries of the investment and regeneration of this area.

'The Olympic Park will include 45 hectares of wildlife habitats, forming part the interconnected green spaces and waterways which will be create a sustainable and green ecological area.'

The ODA published its ‘Biodiversity Action Plan’ earlier this year which sets out the creation of 45 hectares of wildlife habitats for otters, amphibians, invertebrates and other rare wildlife. The 45 hectares will include:

• 1.8 hectares of reedbeds suitable for roosting and breeding birds, otters and vole;
• 23 hectares of species-rich grassland suitable for invertebrates, Flower beetles, ground bugs and bees;
  
• 5 hectares of brownfield habitats including log walls, stone-filled baskets and native tall herbs suitable for lizards, birds, moths and linnets;
  
• 10 hectares of broadleaved woodland and hedgerows;
  
• 0.9 hectares of wet woodland – a rare habitat type for amphibians, snakes and birds;
  
• 4,000 m2 of ‘living roof’ space for birds and rare insects;
  
• 4 new ponds, at least 50m2 in size - two of which will be designed for breeding amphibian;
  
• 4 sites for common lizards with quiet, sunny, south-facing slopes near woodland or rich grasslands;
  
• 4 wetland and grassland habitats that can act as egg-laying sites for grass snakes;
  
• aquatic vegetation and bankside habitats, including nesting banks for kingfishers, wetland habitats for grey herons and two artificial otter holts.
  

The ODA started the process of protecting and safeguarding habitats before construction work began on the Olympic Park site, including translocating 4,000 newts and hundreds of toads. The creation of new habitats has been incorporated into the design and construction of the venues, infrastructure and parklands and will ensure that habitats are not impacted by spectators who visit the Olympic Park during the Games.

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LONDON OLYMPIC: About Sustainability

During this big event this coming 2012. London assures that the spectators as well as the athletes will provided a good environment. It's time to show and promote to the world how change the way of life to build, live and work.

About sustainability

Being ‘sustainable’ means providing for peoples’ current and long-term needs, improving quality of life while ensuring a healthy and thriving natural environment. As the most high-profile event in the world, the Games give us the chance to show how changes to the way we build, live, work, do business and travel could help us to live happy and healthy lives, within our planet’s resources.

Sustainability underpinned the bid for the London 2012 Games, framed by the concept of ‘Towards a One Planet 2012'. This was derived from the WWF/BioRegional concept of ‘One Planet Living®’ , which shows the challenges facing us in stark terms: if everybody in the world lived the same lifestyle as we do in the UK, we would need three planets’ worth of resources to support us.

This idea forms the basis of our plans for sustainable development in the UK and, more broadly, the way in which we can use the Games to highlight global issues such as climate change.

London 2012 and the London 2012 stakeholders share a commitment to maximise sustainability through the phases of the Games – building the venues and infrastructure, staging the Games themselves and then long into the future – focusing on five key areas:

• combating climate change;
• reducing waste;
• enhancing biodiversity;
• promoting inclusion; and
• encouraging healthy living.

This programme-wide approach forms our vision for a one planet London 2012.

Sustainability assurance

It is important to us that people know how we are performing against our sustainability aims from a trusted source. To ensure we stick to our promises, an independent scrutiny body - Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 - has been set up to monitor us.

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LONDON: SUMMER OLYMPIC SINCE 1908

The table below is the list of history of London leading up an event. Its fourth time to host this spectacular event. London make this coming 2012 Summer Olympic a memorable to the visitors, and athletes who will witness this big event. Time-line list below source from http://www.londonolympics2012.com/

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.

LIST OF SPORTS AND VENUES

The table below is the confirmed list of the venue location and sports activity. Source from http://www.londonolympics2012.com
Despite the attention being focused on the redevelopments in East London, most of London's proposed Olympic venues already exist.

Venue	Sport(s)	Comment
Olympic Stadium	athletics	80,000-seat venue also to be used for opening and closing ceremonies
Olympic Park Arenas	volleyball, handball, basketball, fencing, modern pentathlon	four new arenas holding between 8,000 and 12,000 spectators
Aquatics Centre	swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo and modern pentathlon	50m and 25m pools
Velodrome	cycling	seating for 6,000 spectators.
BMX circuit	BMX	purpose-built for the newest Olympic event
Hockey centre	hockey	a competition pitch and a warm-up pitch in a 15,000-seat outdoor arena
Wembley	football	see also regional centres below
Wimbledon	tennis
Lord's Cricket Ground	archery
Horse Guards Parade	beach volleyball
Regents Park	softball, baseball, cycling
Hyde Park	triathlon
Eton Dorney	rowing, flatwater canoe/kayak
The Dome	gymnastics, basketball
ExCel Arena	weightlifting, taekwondo, table tennis, boxing, wrestling, judo
Greenwich Arena	gymnastics and badminton	next to the Dome, temporary indoor venue with 6,000 capacity
Greenwich Park	equestrian, modern pentathlon
Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich	shooting
Broxbourne	canoe/kayak (slalom)
Weald Country Park	mountain biking
Weymouth, Dorset	sailing
Hampden Park, Old Trafford, Villa Park, St James' Park	football

TIMETABLE FOR OLYMPIC PREPARATION

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The company overseeing the tech for the London 2012 Olympic Games has revealed how it's warming up in preparation for the starter's gun on July 27, 2012.

A technology road map for the Games, released Friday, details how Atos Origin, the London Olympics IT supplier, and its partners will prepare for 2012. They are building a network capable of streaming 6GB of sporting results every second to the watching world--the equivalent of the entire contents of Wikipedia every five seconds.

According to the road map shown here, Atos Origin will have completed work on the designing and testing of the Games' complex mesh of technology infrastructure and systems by the end of December.

"The technology road map for each Games is divided into four phases and we are now close to completing phase one--design of the technology infrastructure and systems that will relay the results to the world in a fraction of a second," Atos' Michele Hyron, chief integrator at London 2012, said in a statement.

According to Hyron, the infrastructure at the 2012 Games will allow Atos to "provide more news from the Games than ever before."

OLYMPIC EVENT LEGACY

London's pitch to the IOC was based on the promise of a Games to inspire the youth of the world, and to revolutionise participation in sport in the UK. Grandiose pledges made in the midst of a bid campaign seldom become reality but London’s credibility rests on delivering on this fundamental issue.

The transformational potential of the Olympics helped unlock Treasury vaults for the redevelopment of east London, but the public will not tolerate white elephants and there must be a sporting and health dividend for the UK to justify the cost.

Worryingly this is where progress has been most patchy, perhaps because the methodology for delivering it is woolly. Just how do you tempt a teenager off the sofa, or his father out of the pub?

Seb Coe believes it will take co-ordinated thinking by policy makers allied to the inspirational power of a great games, and slowly there are signs that the first is being delivered.

After Johnson ripped up existing plans following his election Baroness Ford is now chairing the Olympic Legacy Delivery Company, which will be responsible for managing the Olympic Park post-Games. Finding a permanent tenant for the main stadium, or failing that a business plan that pays its way remains the major challenge.

The soft legacy is more difficult, but the government insists that its initiatives such as free swimming are helping deliver on its target of 2 million more people doing sport or physical exercise by London 2012.

Assuming they win the next election, the Conservatives face a challenge to turn Labour’s promises into reality.

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OLYMPIC EVENT TRANSPORT

London's transport system is not going to turn into a network worthy of a first-world capital city just because the Olympics are coming, and ensuring the capital keeps the Games moving is a priority for the organising committee.

Transport for London and Games organisers are hoping that they can exploit the summer holidays with which the Olympics coincide to ease pressure on the network. Fast-tracked developments including the Dockland Light Railway extension, that will see five new stations open by next summer, should help.

More controversial are plans to introduce an Olympic Route Network that will see 'Zil lanes’ marked on some of the capital’s major roads, with use restricted to athletes, officials, media and VIPs for the duration.

A massive public consultation is underway to try to prepare London motorists but the issue is bound to prompt complaints, and Boris Johnson is on-the-record saying he opposes the concept.

The Olympic lanes will be particularly important if plans to use Wembley Arena as a venue are given the go-ahead. The most optimistic journey time for the trip from the athletes’ village Stratford to Wembley is 37 minutes, while the most realistic suggests it will take at least an hour.

That will not please the badminton players and rhythmic gymnasts sketched to be competing at the venue, so London will have to come-up with a bullet proof plan to convince sceptics.

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THE OLYMPIC SPIRIT

While the heavy lifting continues on site the organising committee has to develop a look, feel and tone for the Games that captures the public imagination. The challenge is to change post-recession perceptions so the project is seen as a point of light at the end of the tunnel, rather than a drain on over-stretched public finances.

To do this they will need to establish an identity that has widespread appeal while satisfying the fundamentals of London’s bid promise, that it would be a modern, vital and youthful Games.

This being an Olympics with a hard commercial edge one of the primary vehicles for this will be merchandising, which means mascots. They will be launched next year, a furry and probably irritating indicator of what is to come.

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OLYMPIC TICKETS

Perhaps the most controversial and emotive issue the organising committee faces between now and the opening ceremony is ticketing.

About nine million tickets for the 26 Olympic sports will go on sale in 2011 and it will probably prove impossible to please everyone.

The key issues are price and availability. London won its bid on a promise of minimum ticket prices of around £15, but the economic realities of funding the Games means that figure has already been abandoned as organisers seek to meet their target of £2 billion in commercial revenue.

With higher prices certain the organising committee has to balance affordability with accessibility. Tickets have to be available to people from across the country and they have to be within the reach of ordinary families, particularly given the huge taxpayer investment in the project.

The question of sponsor and VIP access to events is also sensitive and London can ill-afford to allow the huge banks of empty seats left by sponsors in Beijing to be repeated.

Locog are already talking to the IOC about ways in which they can quickly fill areas of seating that have been left vacant, including bussing in schoolchildren to the Olympic Park in order to use them to fill in when required.

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1000 days until the Olympic game challenges

CONSTRUCTION AND VENUES In a sign of the progress underway in Stratford the first new tree will be planted on the Olympic Park next month. The sight of landscaping, often an afterthought in Olympic construction, will boost optimism about the evolution of London’s park.

While the final venues for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics remain uncertain – both sports are being pressed to accept Wembley Arena – progress on-site has been relatively smooth, albeit at a fearsome cost to the taxpayer.

Plans to privately finance the Olympic village and media and broadcast centres collapsed like a distressed marathon runner as the credit crunch bit last year, and the public bail-out of both projects ensures that the bulk of the £9.3 billion build budget will be spent.

More than £1billion of contingency funding remains unspent, which will help as the immovable deadline nears and the big-ticket items approach completion. The Olympic Delivery Authority reaches its maximum of 10,000 workers in the next year.

The next 12 months will see the concrete-and-steel skeletons on site fleshed out, with the roof of the aquatic centre, which doubles as the main pedestrian access to the park, due for completion next summer.

The big deadline is the summer of 2011 when all the sports venues have to be complete and handed to the London organising committee for test events. The velodrome, Olympic Stadium, aquatics centre, international broadcast centre, basketball and handball arenas are all due to be ready 12 months out from the Games.

If its going to happen the ODA and its partners will need to maintain their discipline, particularly in relation to industrial relations, and make sure that they shrewdly use the pot of contingency cash to keep the wheels of progress turning.

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OLYMPIC PREPARATION

2012 LONDON OLYMPIC PREPARATION.
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LONDON MEDIA CENTER DESIGN FOR OLYMPIC

These are the unique building design for 2012 London Olympic media center. Read more this article from www.bbc.com

The design for the London 2012 media centre could "blight the Olympic legacy", it has been claimed.

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, the government's adviser on urban design, said it has serious concerns about the buildings.

It said the steel and glass structure covering 900,000 sq ft did not go far enough to help regenerate east London.

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) said work on the external appearance of the two buildings is ongoing.

The commission said it had reviewed all of the key projects for the Games and in the majority of proposals has praised the ODA's determination to deliver good design and a strong legacy.

'Large monolithic block'

But it added that the designs for the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC) were "extremely weak".

The design for the IBC, which will be based in Lower Lea Valley, showed a "paucity of imagination" and the Cabe panel believes it could even "blight the Olympic Legacy", Cabe said.

It added that "more work is also needed to improve the large monolithic block of the MPC".

Paul Finch, chair of the London 2012 design review panel, said: "Unless there is a fundamental rethink, then people could be forgiven for wondering why sheds have been removed from the Lower Lea Valley in the name of high quality urban regeneration, only to be reinstated at a much larger scale."

A spokesman for the ODA said: "We have worked closely with our partners to agree a compact and efficient media centre, within the layout given planning approval in 2007, to maximise value for the taxpayer and ensure a sustainable legacy.

"The IBC/MPC works well during Games time and provides a flexible employment space in legacy for a range of potential legacy uses

"Work on the external appearance of the buildings is ongoing and we look forward to discussing this further with CABE and other partners."

Construction work on the IBC/MPC began this month.

UK launched a contest to make 2012 art

Many youth were inspired to work in the field of art as the country launch a contest to make 2012 art.

A £5.4m contest has been launched to create 12 public works of art inspired by the 2012 Olympics.

Artists will receive up to £500,000 to create works for the Cultural Olympiad in the run-up to the 2012 London games. It is the first major project in the four-year Cultural Olympiad, which aims to showcase British art and culture. Arts Council England says it wants artists "to mark a moment in our histories in unexpected ways and places across the country".

'Ambitious'

The Cultural Olympiad will comprise 500 non-sport events aimed at involving and inspire people across the UK. It was a key factor in London winning the bid to host the Olympics.

Launching the Artists Taking the Lead competition, London 2012 organisers called it "the most ambitious and wide-ranging art prize in the UK". Entrants can devise works of art in any medium, on condition that the art is inspired by the spirit of the Olympics and the part of the UK in which it is located.

Nine winning artists from different English regions will each receive £500,000 for their commission, a Northern Ireland entrant will receive £190,000, an artist in Scotland will get £460,000 and one in Wales will receive £230,000.

But details of how the completed works of art will be used have yet to be finalised, London 2012 said.

'Unique challenge'

Chairman Lord Coe said: "The Cultural Olympiad harks back to the beginnings of the modern Olympic movement, when artists as well as athletes competed for medals.

"This is the first step in what promises to be a fascinating journey to 2012." Arts Council England executive director Moira Sinclair said: "We're excited to be laying down such a unique challenge to artists. "We want them to look at their region and their connections with fresh eyes... to surprise and delight the world with their extraordinary artistic vision."

A shortlist will be announced in July with the winners named in October 2009.

CONSTRCUTION OF STADIUM FOR LONDON OLYMPIC

The London preparation for the upcoming Olympic 2012. The images are the construction of the most awaited stadium.

OC inspectors, who finished a three-day visit to London on Thursday, said the preparations were "impressive" and unaffected by the recession

But chairman Denis Oswald said attention to ticket allocation would avoid empty seats at venues. The delegation checked the "big five" Olympic venues.

These are the Aquatics Centre, Olympic Village, Olympic Stadium, the Velodrome and the IBC/MPC, a mixture of permanent and temporary buildings - based in Stratford, east London.

Mr Oswald told a news conference in London: "We can confirm that London 2012 is on the right track.

"We know the world is going through a difficult time but Locog (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) had a very strong commercial policy from the beginning and have been able to secure a high amount of sponsorship before the crisis came and have reached £0.5bn."

He said inspectors were "deeply impressed" by the progress made in the construction, and said that the stadium, the Olympic Village and the swimming pool were also impressive.

He also said it was important that the Games' ticketing policy was given attention so that it did not suffer the same mistake as Beijing did regarding empty seats.

Locog has raised nearly £500m from the private sector towards its £2bn budget to stage the Games.

Mr Oswald said it was "important" that the Government had put money into the Olympic Village from the contingency fund so that construction work was not delayed.

Paul Deighton, Locog chief executive, said there were no concerns about the use of the contingency and that only a "small proportion" of it had been used.

He said: "It would be extraordinary if the contingency funds were not used. It is precisely the purpose that the Chancellor put it in place."

Mr Oswald said he might now give London marks that are "very close to 10" for its preparations.

PREPARATION : LONDON OLYMPIC

One year after construction of the London 2012 Olympic site began, organisers have said building work is on time and on budget.
The 500-acre site in Stratford, east London, will include a stadium, Aquatics Centre and Olympic Village, to house athletes during the Games.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) said preparations were "on track".
The ODA plans to finish construction by 2011 to give it one year to run test events on the site.

Building work for the 80,000-seat Olympic stadium is four months ahead of schedule, London 2012 chief Lord Coe said.

The original budget for the 2012 Olympics was £3.4bn but this was increased to £9.3bn in 2007.
Organisers said 105 of 112 steel terracing supports have been fixed to hold the 55,000 seats in the upper tiers, and 5,200 of 12,000 pre-cast concrete terracing units for the seating are so far in place.

ODA chairman John Armitt said: "One year on from the start of the 'big build' the Olympic Stadium is on track and already becoming a feature of the east London skyline.
"The steady and safe progress is a credit to the team on site and their suppliers across the UK.
"The stadium is on schedule to host the opening ceremony... and become a high quality facility in legacy for athletics and other sports."

Lord Coe said: "The Olympic Stadium will become the heartbeat of the Olympic Park in 2012 and home to spectacular sport not just at Games time, but for years to come.
"It has been a fantastic effort to get us this far, but the future promises much more.

"When the Games have left town, we will have changed the map of east London for good."
The £1bn Olympic village was to be funded by private investment but will now be met by public contingency funds.
The ODA admitted the economic downturn had affected private sector funding for the Athletes' Village and Broadcast Centre, but pledged the Games would not exceed its budget.

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BEHIND THE GAME : NATION AND REGION GROUP

NATIONS AND REGIONS GROUP

The Nations and Regions Group (NRG) will make sure the whole of the UK is involved in and benefits from the 2012 Games.

Chaired by London 2012 Organising Committee Board member Charles Allen, the NRG is made up of 12 senior representatives from UK business and sport: nine from the English regions and one each from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (the 'home nations').

The group has the support of the Government and the relevant First Ministers/Ministers in the home nations.

Each NRG member chairs a task force bringing together representatives of interested parties across their nation or region. They each have a vision and plan for making the most of the Games - from helping businesses gear up to win Games-related contracts to encouraging young people to take up more sport and activity.

BEHIND THE GAME : GOVERNMENT DELIVERY OF 2012

London 2012 enjoys strong support from Government and across all major political parties.

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) leads for Government on the delivery of the Games. It is responsible for the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006, the overall finances of the Games, and sponsorship of the Olympic Delivery Authority.

DCMS works closely with other key stakeholders - the LOCOG, Mayor of London, the British Olympic Association, the British Paralympic Association and other Government departments and relevant bodies - on preparations for the Games. DCMS is also responsible for bringing together the legacy benefits brought by all the wider sporting, cultural, environmental, educational and business enterprise initiatives that will take place all over the country as a result of the Games before, during and after 2012. DCMS leads on this work in coordination with other Government departments.

BEHIND THE GAME : The Mayor of London

The Mayor of London Committee is compose of the following Groups

Greater London Authority (GLA) Group

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, works with the GLA Group to ensure Londoners get the most possible benefit from the 2012 Games.

The Mayor of London is Co-Chair of the Olympic Board, which oversees the 2012 project. He also has particular responsibility for ensuring that Londoners benefit as much and as widely as possible from hosting the Games in 2012. He believes that the success of the Games will not be judged simply by the summer of 2012, but just as importantly, by its legacy.

The London Development Agency

The Mayor’s London Development Agency (LDA) is leading the way in this field with skills and employment initiatives, programmes to increase grass-roots sport participation and initiatives to promote London as a place to do business.

The LDA is also responsible for the physical, social and economic legacy of the Olympic Park area. Read more about plans for legacy

The LDA is working in partnership with local authorities, London 2012, local communities, public sector bodies and other organisations in the planning and delivery of new communities and the regeneration that they can promote.

Transport for London

Transport for London, also under the Mayor’s direction, is investing £10billion to deliver a transport legacy for east London before 2012, marking a sustained increase in transport investment for the area.

In time for the Games, London’s new over ground network will see the East London Line extended south to Croydon and North through Hackney to connect with the North London Line at Highbury and Islington. The Docklands Light Railway will be extended to Stratford International and the under used North London line between Stratford and Canning Town will run frequent DLR services.

The Olympic Park Regeneration Steering Group (OPRSG)

The Olympic Park Regeneration Steering Group (OPRSG) provides direction of the Olympic legacy agenda for east and south east London. It focuses particularly on the development and delivery of the Legacy Masterplan Framework. The Framework will set out a clear vision for the future development of the Olympic Park and its immediate surroundings, which will begin immediately after the Games.

OPRSG is made up of: the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, Housing Minister Margaret Beckett, Leader of Greenwich Council Chris Roberts, Mayor of Hackney Council Jules Pipe, Mayor of Newham Council Sir Robin Wales, Leader of Tower Hamlets Council Lutfur Rahman and Leader of Waltham Forest Council Clyde Loakes.

PEOPLE BEHIND THE GAME : OLYMPIC BOARD

This is one of the organization that will lead the realization of the 2012 Olympic.

The Olympic Board provides oversight, strategic coordination and monitoring of the entire 2012 Games project, ensuring the delivery of the commitments made to the International Olympic Committee when the Games were awarded to London, and a sustainable legacy from the staging of the Games.

The Olympic Board is made up of Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell, Mayor of London Boris Johnson, British Olympic Association Chairman Colin Moynihan and London 2012 Organising Committee Chair Sebastian Coe.

It usually meets monthly, with the chair alternating between the Mayor and the Olympics Minister.

PEOPLE BEHIND THE GAME : ODA

OLYMPIC DELIVERY AUTHORITY

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is the public body responsible for developing and building the new venues and infrastructure for the Games and their use after 2012.

The ODA has its headquarters in Canary Wharf, together with the London 2012 Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).

It is led by John Armitt (Chairman) and David Higgins (Chief Executive).

One of the key responsibilities of the ODA is building the Olympic Park, where much of the action in 2012 will take place.

The ODA's work is underpinned by six priority themes: design and accessibility, employment and skills, equality and inclusion, health, safety and security, sustainability, and legacy.

A delivery partner has been appointed to work with the ODA to project manage the venues and infrastructure programme for the Games.

The ODA is also responsible for:

• Building new permanent venues 
• Building arenas that will be relocated after the Games: Water Polo, Hockey, Basketball Arena, Paralympic Tennis and Archery, Greenwich Arena and the indoor Shooting hall 
• Permanent works to existing sports venues, like Eton Dorney and Weymouth and Portland 
• Planning and delivery on both transport infrastructure and services to support the 2012 Games projects
• Converting the Olympic Park for long-term use after the Games 
• Making sure the project sets new standards for sustainable development. 

The ODA is planning Games-time and long-term use together to make sure the area will be regenerated, leaving housing, schools and health facilities for the local community after 2012 alongside world class sports facilities.

The ODA was established by the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2006. The Act was passed to ensure the necessary planning and preparation for the Games can take place. It allows the ODA to:

• Buy, sell and hold land
• Make arrangements for building works and develop transport and other infrastructure
• Develop a Transport Plan for the Games, with which other agencies must cooperate, and make orders regulating traffic on the Olympic Road Network
• Be the local planning authority for the Olympic Park area.

As a public body, the ODA is accountable to Government, the GLA and other stakeholders for its work.

BEHIND THE GAME : LOCOG

The London 2012 Games are delivered by two key organisations - the London 2012 Organising Committee and the Olympic Delivery Authority.

The staging of the Games and delivery of the long-term benefits are supported by the London 2012 stakeholders, funders and commercial partners.

LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games)

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is responsible for preparing and staging the 2012 Games.

LOCOG is led by Sebastian Coe (Chair) and Paul Deighton (Chief Executive). It is based in Canary Wharf along with the Olympic Delivery Authority.

By the time of the 2012 Opening Ceremony around 100,000 people will be working on the Games - including 3,000 staff, up to 70,000 volunteers and a large number of contractors. All permanent roles are advertised on this site. 

2012 LONDON OLYMPIC

Before the Beijing Olympic has ended, world introduce the next stop place to meet 2012 utmost athletes throughout the globe. By that year, the European will now its way to show their best and host the most awaited event.

The United Kingdom led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Princess Royal are raring to go for the longest leg of the Olympic torch run. London organizers reveal that Prime Minister Brown will be receiving the Olympic torch when it arrives. While Princess Anne will be present on the grand finale at the Peninsula Square.

Among the chosen to carry the torch on this 31 mile run is Athens Olympics champion Kelly Holmes, 5-time Olympic gold medalist Steve Redgrave and British Pro Tennis Player Tim Henman.

The other fortunate people chosen Olympic torchbearers are a mix of British popular celebrities such as the girl band Sugababes, actress Denise van Outen, news presenter Trevor McDonald, violinist Vanessa Mae, sailor Ellen MacArthur and Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott.

The torch will pass through key places in the United Kingdom which includes Notting Hill, China Town, Trafalgar Square and the South Bank, St Paul's Cathedral and East London.

In the summer of 2012, the UK will come alive with the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Our four-year Cultural Olympiad will reach a climax with the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on 27 July. It starts a 60-day festival of sport and culture across the UK – the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

For the first time, these two events have been planned together from the very beginning. By thinking about the needs of both Olympic and Paralympic athletes and spectators at each point in our plans, we can create the best possible Games experience for everyone.