London promises 'best-ever' Games

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Full story The London Olympic bid

London's 2012 plan at-a-glance

An overview of some of the new details and claims revealed on Friday by the London team in their 600-page candidate file about their bid to host the 2012 Olympics.

Ticketing



There will be 9.6 million tickets for sale - 8 million for the Olympics and 1.6 million for the Paralympics.

Organisers say 75% of all tickets will cost less than £50 and offer free travel on London transport.

A sell-out rate of 82% for the Olympic Games and 63% for the Paralympics is estimated.

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.

Olympic Village



The village will have 17,320 beds and provide each athlete with 16 square metres floor space.

Each apartment will have a TV, internet access, a private courtyard.

The dining hall will cater for 5,500 athletes at a time.

Legacy



The Olympic Village Polyclinic will be converted into a lifelong learning centre for the east London community, with a nursery, primary and secondary schools.

The village will be converted into 3,600 apartments, most of them will be affordable housing.

The media and press centre would become a creative industries centre for east London.

After the Games four arenas would be 'deconstructed' and relocated to other parts of the UK along with the swimming pools that are used for water polo and the 50m training pools.

Charities will be given the sports equipment used in the Games for free.

Political commitment



A Cabinet-level minister would be responsible for delivering the Games.

Government will create an Olympic Delivery Authority to ensure delivery of Olympic infrastructure and new venues.

There will also be a Cabinet-level Olympic Security Committee to co-ordinate all security planning.

Transport



80% of athletes would be within 20 minutes of their events and 97% of athletes within 30 minutes of their events.

93% of training venues are to be within 30 minutes of the athletes village.

The aim is for 90% of venues to be served by three or more forms of public transport.

There will be two major park and ride sites off the M25 with a combined capacity of 12,000 cars, within 25 minutes of the Olympic Park.

There are 9,000 planned park and ride spaces to be made available at Ebbsfleet where spectators can board a 10-minute shuttle service to the Olympic Park. This is the same station where continental spectators travelling by Eurostar will join the shuttle to the Olympic Park.

It is predicted that on event days 78% of spectators are likely to travel from within London and 22% from the rest of the UK and Europe.

Organisers estimate 80% of visitors and staff of the Games will use rail services to reach the Olympic Park.

Low or no-emission vehicles will be used to transport Olympic athletes and officials.

Other aspects



A tri-generation plant will supply electricity, heat and chilled water to the Olympic Park using technology which produces 33% lower CO2 emissions than from the electricity grid.

By 2012 it is estimated that over 135,000 hotel rooms will be available within 50km of the Olympic Park, up from 120,000 presently.

According to London 2012, for the first-time in any Games live Olympic backdrop presentation facilities will be available to broadcast rights holders via rooftop studios on the main press centre with a direct view of the Olympic Stadium and Park.

Story from BBC SPORT:

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Published: 2004/11/19 10:13:47 GMT

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[Bill Sikes]

letha wrote: A Cabinet-level minister would be responsible for delivering the Games.


Oh well, that's a guarantee of a Dome-style disaster, then. Maybe worse.

[persephone]

Just heard on the news that the Lower Lea Valley is such a great choice because it will give the people of Newham after the event, services that they are missing out on at the moment.

They are planning to reduce it's size after as well.

They haven't mentioned how the already high rent is already increasing, and how a whole street had to be evacuated after people noticed big creaks appearing everywhere as the new tunnel was being drilled under them to make Stratford an international station.

[capt_buzzard]

That I'll look forward to. Hmmm I hate to say this,but they always put on a good show :-6 http://www.london2012.org/en