Tuesday, February 1, 2011

London Olympic Games 2012 contd


The Games

[edit]Sports

See also: Category:2012 Summer Olympics events
The 2012 Summer Olympic programme features 26 sports and a total of 38 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 andsoftball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city. The IOC reinforced its decision to drop both sports during the Turin Games after they lost votes for reconsideration. They will remain Olympic sports, despite being scheduled for the last time atBeijing in 2008.[66] Following the decision to drop the two sports, the IOC held a vote on whether or not to replace them. The sports considered were karate, squash, golf, roller sports, and rugby sevens. Karate and squash were the two final nominees, but neither received enough votes to reach the required two-thirds majority.[66] The IOC has given the approval for the addition of golf and rugby sevens for the 2016 games.[67][68]
The International Olympic Committee executive board met on 13 August 2009 and approved the addition of women's boxing to the programme. The International Boxing Federation has proposed that 40 athletes compete in five different weight classes.[69]
Murad Qureshi, a member of the London Assembly, is pushing for a Twenty20 cricket showcase tournament to be included in London.[70]Twenty20 cricket did originally bid for inclusion in 2012, but was not one of the finalist sports.[71] Netball is being drafted as a possibledemonstration sport at the 2012 games. This idea was backed by then British prime minister Gordon Brown, suggesting that it would encourage more girls and young women to play sports.[72] The IOC eliminated demonstration sports following the 1992 Summer Olympics.[73] However, special tournaments have been run for non-Olympic sports during the games, such as the Wushu tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[70] There has been speculation that the London Sevens tournament held at Twickenham as part of the IRB Sevens World Series could be put back to coincide with the Olympics.[74]
Following the awarding of the 2012 Olympic Games to London, the government announced that special dispensation would be granted to allow the various shooting events to go ahead, as had been the case previously for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. However, it was still illegal for Britain's top pistol shooters to train in England, Scotland or Wales. As a result, British shooters currently spend 20 to 30 days a year training in Switzerland, and receive no public sports funding because their events are considered illegal in the UK.[citation needed]

[edit]Calendar

As of October 15, 2010, this is the schedule of events for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[75]
 ● Opening ceremony   Event competitions ● Event finals   Exhibition gala ● Closing ceremony
July / August 201225
Wed		26
Thu		27
Fri		28
Sat		29
Sun		30
Mon		31
Tue		1
Wed		2
Thu		3
Fri		4
Sat		5
Sun		6
Mon		7
Tue		8
Wed		9
Thu		10
Fri		11
Sat		12
Sun		Gold
medals
 Archery4
 Athletics47
 Badminton5
 Basketball              2
 Boxing             13
 Canoeing16
 Cycling18
 Diving             8
 Equestrian            6
 Fencing         10
 Field hockey              2
 Football             2
 Gymnastics             18
 Handball                2
 Judo       14
 Modern pentathlon  2
 Rowing        14
 Sailing              10
 Shooting         15
 Swimming          34
 Synchronized swimming     2
 Table tennis           4
 Taekwondo    8
 Tennis         5
 Triathlon2
 Volleyball                4
 Water polo              2
 Weightlifting          15
 Wrestling        18
Total gold medals302
Cumulative total302
Ceremonies●●
July / August 201225
Wed		26
Thu		27
Fri		28
Sat		29
Sun		30
Mon		31
Tue		1
Wed		2
Thu		3
Fri		4
Sat		5
Sun		6
Mon		7
Tue		8
Wed		9
Thu		10
Fri		11
Sat		12
Sun		Gold
medals

[edit]Broadcasting

Continuing the IOC's commitment to providing over-the-air television coverage to as broad a worldwide audience as possible, London 2012 is scheduled to be broadcast by a number of regional broadcasters. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the home broadcaster for the Olympics and Channel 4 the home broadcaster for the Paralympics. The BBC aims to broadcast by various channels all 5,000 hours of the Olympic Games.[76] Much of the actual broadcasting is originated by the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS). The United States television rights currently owned by NBC account for over half the rights revenue for the IOC. Many television broadcasters granted rights to the games have bureaux and studios in London, but since at least the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, rights-holder operations are hosted in the dedicated International Broadcast Centre (IBC). London's IBC is planned to be inside the security cordon of the Olympic Park.
As rights for the 2012 Games have been packaged with those for the 2010 Winter Olympics, broadcasters will be largely identical for both events. Confirmed broadcasters include:
Social media will be important for the Games. Online technology is being developed for the London 2012 Olympics and YouTube will stream highlights of the Games to countries all over the world as part of an IOC deal.

[edit]Olympic flag

The flag was raised outside City Hall on Friday, 26 September 2008 to celebrate the start of the cultural Olympiad. The flag will continue to fly outside City Hall until the day of the Olympic opening ceremony. On the same day the Paralympic flag was raised outside City Hall.

[edit]Eco-policy

The Olympic Park will incorporate 45 hectares of wildlife habitat, with a total of 525 bird boxes, and 150 bat boxes. Local waterways and riverbanks are to be enhanced as part of the process.[86]

[edit]Tourism and the 2012 Games

Kate Hoey MP at the launch of Blue Badge 2012 Guided Walks
The 2012 Games park near Stratford is attracting new tourists to the area.[87] The upgradedGreenway cycle and walking path provides an ideal viewing point for the park while the site remains closed to the public.
There are daily public walking tours running alongside the 2012 site lead by qualified Blue Badge tourist guides. The guided walks - which leave from Bromley-by-Bow tube station at 11am - are attended by over 1000 people each month. They are run by guides who are specifically trained to talk about the 2012 Games and the history and traditions of the local area.
In 2010 Blue Badge Guides led 220 visits from colleges and schools to the 2012 Games site and nearby Olympic venues. During summer they guided over 1000 new visitors and tourist a day around East London’s 2012 sites.
In 2011 a new initiative to bring tourists and visitors into the area will involve a public waterbus[88] ‘hop-on hop-off’ route, from Limehouse Basin to waterways near the Olympic Park.

[edit]Short films and documentaries

The Geography Department at Royal Holloway, University of London produced "London's Olympic Waterscape" (2010) a 20-minute documentary about the changing nature of the waterways around the main Olympic site in East London.
In 2005-07, the official song for the 2012 Olympics was chosen as "Proud" by Heather Small.
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