LONDON OLYMPIC TICKET

The facts all about the London 2012 Olympic bid. There are stages on how the ticketing registration process.

pre-registration period - began in March and the Locog (London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) has been busy collating all of the information to establish an idea of which sports are proving the most popular, and for which demographics.

By registering, prospective spectators provide Locog with information about the events that they might like to purchase when the tickets become available. They also provide basic details, which will then be used as the first stage of the ticketing ballot system when it is released in 2011.

• There will be 9.6million tickets for sale - 8million for the Olympics and 1.6million for the Paralympics.
• Organisers say 75 per cent of all tickets will cost less than £50 and offer free travel on London transport.
• Tickets for the athletics will start at £15 and there will be 20,000 £10 tickets for the Olympic Park to watch events on big screens.

Research of the initial registration process has shown track and field, swimming and gymnastics are the top three sports that the British public want to purchase.
Opening and closing ceremonies, track cycling, swimming and weightlifting will be the hardest to get, mainly because these sports are played in smaller sized venues and the ceremonies are always in extremely high demand.
For all of the sessions that are over-subscribed – and these are expected to include swimming and diving, beach volleyball, boxing, tennis, track and field finals, gymnastics, track cycling – there will be a ballot.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Michael Phelps in LONDON OLYMPIC 2012

Is Michael Phelps still be the top in London Olympic? At an age of 23 he gathered almost all medal in his game, but this coming 2012 he will be turn to 27. Does it affects his agility? Maybe this boy will still amaze us. We'll see. Below is a short summary on how he became one of the famous Olympian.

The amazing Michael Phelps. This man is responsible for almost 25% of USA's medals for the last 2008 Beijing Olympic. At a young of 23 years old, these man swam his way to 8 gold medals and holds the record winning the most gold medals in a single Olympics.

Michael Phelps Record:

• 400m Individual Medley
• 4x100m Freestyle Relay (with team mates Cullen Jones, Jason Lezak and Garrett Weber-Gale)
• 200m Freestyle
• 200m Butterfly
• 4x200m Freestyle Relay with team mates Ryan Lochte, Ricky Berens and Peter Vanderkaay)
• 200m Individual Medley
• 100m Butterfly
• 4x100m Medley Relay

Amazing Facts about London Olympic 2012

Did you know that there are some facts which is quite not important but i will give us an idea on how this event is compared to others.

• 90% - Proporton of material reclaimed from demolition within the Olympic Park following the games which can be reused or recycled.
• 53m - Height of th Olympic Stadium - three metres taller than Nelson's Column.
• 8.35km - Total length of waterways with or close to the Olympic Park, much of which is being restored - the equivalent of 167 lengths of a 50 m swimming pool.
• 200km - Total length of cabeling for the underground powerlines.
• 2000 - The number of newts relocated from the Olympic Park to Waterworks Nature Reserve.
• 4000 - Trees to be planted on the Olmpic Park and Olympic Village sites.
• 800,000 - Number of people expected to use public transport to travel to the games on the busiest day.
  

12 Must Know Facts About London Olympic 2012

The most awaited event is fast approaching, it is 2 more years to go, others maybe prepared for these big event. This is just a simple news in our everyday life but for the people of London and all over UK, this is another once in a life time experience. Below are the 12 must know facts about London Olympic 2012 which will give us some point of imagination.

1. Officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad,
2. Will take place between 27 July and 12 August 2012.
3. The 14th Paralympics takes place between 29 August and 9 September 2012.
4. 12,500 participating sports men and sports women.
5. A total of 300 events in 26 sports.
6. Events will take place across the UK as well as London.
7. The Olympic Stadium (Stratford) is predicted to cost around £469 million Sterling. Has aseating capacity of 80,000. Designed by Peter Cook who has seized the opportunity to make the stadium the most sustainable ever.
8. Has a Green Agenda which launches on 10 July 2009.
9. Has a London2012Team on Twitter.
10. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is responsible for preparing and staging the 2012 Games and is led by Sebastian Coe (Chair) and Paul Deighton (Chief Executive).
11. London will become the first city to host the games 3 times.
12. London previously hosted the Olympic games in 1908 and 1948.
    

OLYMPIC PARK PREVIEW

The London 2012 Games will be centered around all over the world, which will be the site of a number of new sports venues. There are about 180,000 spectators a day will enter the Olympic Park to enjoy the Games, making it the principal focus of Olympic activity in summer 2012.

The main venues – the Olympic Stadium, Aquatic Centre, Velodrome and BMX Circuit, as well as the hockey, handball and basketball arenas – will be easily accessible through a network of footbridges and walkways within the Park. The Olympic Village will be within walking distance of all the venues in the Park, enhancing the experience for athletes and officials.

The use of other prestigious venues – such as Wembley Stadium for football, the All-England Club in Wimbledon for tennis, Lord’s Cricket Ground for archery and Horse Guards Parade for beach volleyball – is also a feature of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The London 2012 Games include a four-year Cultural Olympiad, which is already underway. It will reach a climax with the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony on 27 July 2012, starting a 60-day festival of sport and culture across the UK, as the Olympic and Paralympic spirit crosses the world once again.

Scale of the 2012 Games:
- 26 Olympic sports in 34 venues
- 20 Paralympic sports in 21 venues
- 10,500 Olympic athletes and 4,200 Paralympic athletes
- 20,000 press and media - More than 9 million tickets

Source: http://www.olympic.org

London Velodrome 2012

This is the velodrome, the nearly completion of the structure. These stunning view above could be a medal factory for British cyclist in the upcoming 2010 LONDON Olympic.

Way back into 2008 Beijing Olympic, London gather seven out of ten titles with multiple medals in four events at Laoshan Velodrome. Olympians and cycling champions showing their two thumbs up and impressed as they visit and saw the ongoing construction of the infrastructure.

The 6,000-capacity complex, costing 80 million pounds ($121.6 million), is scheduled to be the first of the major venues in the Olympic Park to be completed early next year after its sweeping double curved roof was recently lifted into place.

Inside the Aquatic Centre

The image below is the Aquatic Centre for the upcoming London Olympic. During the event, the Centre will be the venue for Swimming, Paralympic Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and the Aquatics discipline of the Modern Pentathlon. These Centre is located at the South-east park of the olympic. It has 17,500 for Swimming and Diving events; 5,000 for Water Polo. During the game, the majority of spectators will be seated in two temporary wings that will be taken down after the Games.

A new riverside environment alongside the Aquatics Centre has been created for visitors by widening a 550m stretch of the river to the south-west of the venue by 8m.

The venue was designed by acclaimed international architect Zaha Hadid. It features a spectacular wave-like roof that is 160m long and up to 80m wide, giving it a longer single span than Heathrow Terminal 5. The Aquatics Centre will be the ‘gateway’ to the Olympic Park, with more than two-thirds of spectators expected to enter the Olympic Park over a vast bridge that runs over the top of part of the venue.

Aquatic Game: Swimming

Another spectacular Aquatic game is Swimming. Every other Olympic game, many proud swimmers from different countries face their moment and show what they've got. Way back to its origin, swimming was learned by the prehistoric people in Egypt in order to cross the lake or river. These are depicting by some cave painting found by the scientist. Until now, many countries organized swimming society in order to develop potential future swimmers and learn the standard, style, stroke, discipline and rules.

These are the rules and things that must be observed about this sports
Traditional Swimming races take place over distances ranging from 50m to 1500m. Unless it is a Freestyle event, competitors have to use a particular swimming stroke: Breaststroke, Butterfly or Backstroke. There are also Medley events which combine all four strokes.

Olympic races take place in a 50m long pool divided into 10 lanes, with only the middle eight lanes used by swimmers. The swimmer who touches the pool wall first at the end of the race is the winner. The Olympic programme includes both individual and team men’s and women’s events.

The Marathon Swimming races are swum outside in areas of open water such as the sea, a lake or a river, and competitors usually swim circuits around buoys positioned in the water.

Aquatic Game: Diving

One of the most awaiting games to witness these upcoming 2012 London Olympic are the Aquatic sports especially Diving. Diving is another form of discipline which is originated and perform by gymnast from Sweden and Germany in the 18th century. Making a new routine by performing a tumbling in to the water. From its history, diving is added new features, rules and style for the past olympic games such as Synchronised Platform Diving and Synchronised Springboard Diving which is newly added last Olympic 2000 held at Sydney.

These are the best shots to point out in order to lead in these kind sports.
Competitors perform a series of dives from either a springboard or a fixed platform, at a height of either three or 10 metres.

Judges award points up to 10 depending upon their elegance and skill. Points are adjusted for the degree of difficulty, based on the number and types of manoeuvres attempted, such as somersaults, pikes, tucks and twists.

In the Synchronised Diving events, pairs of athletes dive in tandem and receive an additional mark for their level of ‘synchronisation’.