Some interesting facts & figures of London Olympics 2012
1. 26 Olympic sports will be played
2. 19 Paralympics sports will be played
3. There will be 60-70 London 2012 sponsors
4. The London economy is projected to grow by $80 billion by 2015
5. The Games are projected to generate 12,000 new jobs in the Olympic Park
6. 31 competition venues will be utilized
7. 20,000 press/media will be in attendance
8. 10km of new roads is built
9. There will be 500,000 spectators per day
10. 9,000 new homes are built
11. There will be 9.6million tickets for sale – 8million for the Olympics and
1.6million for the Paralympics
12. Organizers say 75 per cent of all tickets will cost less than £50 and offer free travel on London transport.
13. A sell-out rate of 82 per cent for the Olympic Games and 63 per cent for the Paralympics is estimated
14. Tickets for the athletics will start at £15 and there will be 20,000 £10 tickets for the Olympic Park to watch
15. The village will be converted into 3,600 apartments, most of them will be affordable housing
16. 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.
17. Charities will be given the sports equipment used in the Games for free
18. 80 per cent of athletes would be within 20 minutes of their events and 97
per cent of athletes within 30 minutes of their events
19. 93 per cent of training venues are to be within 30 minutes of the athletes village
20. There are 9,000 planned park and ride spaces to be made available at Ebbsfleet where spectators can board a 10-minute javelin service to the Olympic Park. This is the same station where continental spectators travelling by Eurostar will join the javelin to the Olympic Park
21. It is predicted that on event days 78 per cent of spectators are likely to travel from within London and 22 per cent from the rest of the UK and Europe
22. 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.
23. Number of foreign visitors: 350,000 per day
24. Food and Beverage potential: 18 million meals
25. Value of tourism benefit: an additional £2.1 billion
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