Some Facts About The London Olympics 2012

  • 26 Olympic sports will be played .
  • 19 Paralympic sports will be played.
  • The London economy is projected to grow by $80 billion by 2015.
  • The Games are projected to generate 12,000 new jobs in the Olympic Park.
  • 31 competition venues will be utilised.
  • 20,000 press/media will be in attendance.
  • 10km of new roads will be built.
  • There will be 500,000 spectators per day.
  • 9,000 new homes will be built.
  • There will be 9.6million tickets for sale – 8million for the Olympics and 1.6million for the Paralympics.
  • Organisers say 75 per cent of all tickets will cost less than £50 and offer free travel on London transport.
  • A sell-out rate of 82 per cent for the Olympic Games and 63 per cent 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.
  • The village will be converted into 3,600 apartments, most of them will be affordable housing.
  • 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.
  • 93 per cent of training venues are to be within 30 minutes of the athletes village.
  • 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.
  • 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.