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In London from 27 July to 12 August of the current year will be held worldwide sports forum, which offers billions of fans - XXX Summer Olympic Games. The competition will be attended by more than 12.5 thousand athletes from more than 250 countries worldwide.
London will become the first city where the Games will be held for the third time. Prior to that, the capital of the UK hosted the Olympics in 1908 and 1948. To host the jubilee, XXX Summer Olympic Games was expressed 9 cities: Havana, Istanbul, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. lifelite At the 117th IOC Session in July 2005 in Singapore was chosen London.
Olympic Torch Relay in 2012 began May 19 and ends July 27. It passes through the famous Loch Ness in Scotland, stone Stonehenge megalithic structures, the highest mountain in Wales - Snovdan. Total fire visit the 2012 Olympic Games in 1 thousand settlements UK.
Emblem games - image of four parts in the form of irregular polygons that represent the digits of the year of the Olympics - "2", "0", "1", "2". In one part of which includes the word London, and in another - the image of the Olympic rings. Logo designed for about a year and cost 400 thousand pounds.
In the 2012 Olympics in London three mascots. First in 2010 became known two of them - Uenlak and Mandeville. Birth of these images is due to two towns in England, which entered the history of the Olympic Games. In the village of Much-Uenlak Baron Pierre de Coubertin got the idea to develop the ideas of Olympism. Therefore, one of the Olympics mascots named Uenlakam. Mandeville name comes from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where in 1948 Paralympic Games were born. Third official mascot of the London Olympics - a lion named Pride, with blue and red, the colors on the British flag, hair.
The motto of the London Olympics - "Inspiring a generation." Became the official anthem song "Survival" (vitality, survival) English rock band Muse. The song will be played during the Olympics, as well as during award ceremonies all athletes. It will be the main theme for the television screen savers international Olympic Games.
Before Belarusian athletes tasked to bring from London 25 Olympic medals, including five gold. Medal chances associated with experienced Ekaterina Karsten, for which it will be the fifth Olympics, two of which she won. There is hope for the successful performance of the masters rowing and canoeing - brothers Andrei and Alexander Bogdanovich, tennis players Victoria lifelite Azarenka and Maxim Mirny shooter Sergei Martynov. In athletics, as many prominent artists, primarily representatives of throwing disciplines - is Olympic champion lifelite Oksana Menkova, Olympic medalist Nadezhda Ostapchuk and Ivan Tikhon. Decent original medal chances for success in gymnastics, especially in group exercises. Beginning with the 2012 Games in Belarus increased the size of the prize for Olympic medals: $ 150 thousand - for gold, $ 75 thousand - for silver, $ 50 thousand - for the bronze.
Will be the main Olympic zone. It is located in Stratford (East London), where on the land for industrial use and vacant lands defeated Olympic Park. In the southern part of the park there are cafes, bars and souvenir markets. The northern part is home to hundreds of species of common and rare species of flora and fauna of the country - the mistress of the Olympics. Almost 2 thousand mature trees grown in the UK, have been selected to decorate the park avenue. This is mainly native species such as alder, ash, birch, hazel, cherry, lifelite sycamore and basswood.
During the Games the Olympic Park will become a destination for visitors who can not only admire the scenery, but also to watch the broadcast of the competition in real time on large screens.
At the Olympic Park is located and a number of sports facilities. Chief among them - the Olympic Stadium, which is located in the southern part of the park on a kind of "island" surrounded by water on three sides. lifelite He is hosting athletics, as well as the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Olympic lifelite Stadium capacity lifelite is 80 thousand spectators: 25 thousand permanent seats located in the lower tier, the other 55 thousand temporary seats arranged in the upper tier, which is planned to dismantle after the Games. Many elements of the stadium is unique. So, treadmills, made of a special synthetic rubber, created specifically for athletes to perform lifelite better. The amount that was spent on the construction of this great structure was about 486 million euros.
Will serve as a sort of aqua "gateway" to the Olympic Park, as two