London Summer Olympics
XXX Summer Games
Presentation
Saaremaa Coeducational Gymnasium
Form 10 A
Herman Kaljo
• London will become the first city to officially host
the modern Olympic Games three times, having
previously done so in 1908 and 1948.
• By the bid submission deadline of 15 July 2003,
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nine cities had submitted bids to host the 2012
Olympics.
These cities were Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig,
London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris and Rio
de Janeiro. London won the right to host the 2012
Games with 54 votes
• The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will use a mixture
of new venues, existing and historic facilities, and
temporary facilities, some of them in well-known locations
such as Hyde Park and Horse Guards Parade.
• In the wake of the problems that plagued the Millennium
Dome, the organisers' intention is that there will be no
white elephants after the Games and instead that a "2012
legacy" will be delivered.
• Some of the new facilities will be reused in their Olympic
form, while others, including the 80,000 seater main
stadium, will be reduced in size and several will be
relocated elsewhere in the UK.
• The majority of venues have been divided into three zones
within Greater London: the Olympic Zone, the River Zone
and the Central Zone.
• In addition to these are those venues that, by necessity,
are outside the boundaries of Greater London, such as the
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on the
Isle of Portland in Dorset and other stadia across the UK.
• Public transport, an aspect of the bid which scored poorly in
the IOC's initial evaluation, needs to see numerous
improvements, including the expansion of the London
Overground's East London Line, upgrades to the Docklands
Light Railway and the North London Line, and the new
"Javelin" high-speed rail service, using Hitachi 'bullet'
trains.
• They also plan to have 80% of athletes travel less than 20
minutes to their event. The Park would be served by 10
separate railway lines with a combined capacity of 240,000
passengers per hour. Park and ride schemes also feature
amongst the many plans aimed at reducing traffic levels
during the games.
• The costs of mounting the Games are separate from those for building the
venues and infrastructure, and redeveloping the land for the Olympic Park.
While the Games are privately funded, the venues and Park costs are met
largely by public money.
• On 15 March 2007 Tessa Jowell announced to the House of Commons a
budget of £5.3 billion to cover building the venues and infrastructure for
the Games, at the same time announcing the wider regeneration budget
for the Lower Lea Valley budget at £1.7 billion.
• On top of this, she announced various other costs including an overall
additional contingency fund of £2.7 billion, security and policing costs of
£600 million, VAT of £800 million and elite sport and Paralympic funding of
nearly £400 million. According to these figures, the total for the Games
and the regeneration of the East London area, is £9.345 billion. Then
Mayor Ken Livingstone pledged the Games Organising Committee would
make a profit.
• The costs for staging the Games (£2 billion) are
funded from the private sector by a combination
of sponsorship, merchandising, ticketing and
broadcast rights. This budget is raised and
managed by the London 2012 Organising
Committee. According to Games organisers, the
funding for this budget broadly breaks down as:
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* 63% from Central Government;
* 23% from National Lottery
* 13% from the Mayor of London and the
London Development Agency
• To help fund the cost of the games the London
Olympic organisers have agreed partnership deals
with major companies.
• "Tier One" partners already announced include
Lloyds TSB, EDF Energy, BT, British Airways, BP,
Nortel and Adidas — who announced the deal on
the popular website YouTube."Tier Two"
supporters already announced include Deloitte
and Cadbury's.
• Organisers estimate that some 7.7 million tickets
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would be available for the Olympic Games, and
1.5 million tickets for the Paralympic Games.
They will be going on sale in 2011, with at least
50% of these priced under £20. To reduce traffic,
ticketholders would be entitled to free use of
London's public transportation network on the
day of the event.
It is estimated that 82% of available Olympic
tickets and 63% of Paralympic tickets will be
sold. There will also be free events: for example,
the marathon, Triathlon and road cycling.
• The handover ceremony marked the moment
when the previous games in Beijing in 2008
handed over the Olympic Flag to the new host city
of London.Mayor of London Boris Johnson
received the flag from Mayor of Beijing Guo
Jinlong, on behalf of London.
• The 2012 Summer Olympic programme
features 26 sports and a total of 39
disciplines. The 2012 Paralympic Games
programme has 20 sports and 21
disciplines. London's bid featured 28
sports, in line with other recent Summer
Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop
baseball and softball from the 2012 Games
two days after it selected London as the
host city.
References:
• 2012 Summer Olympics
URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2
012_Summer_Olympics
• Thank you for your attention! 