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LOCOG Fact Pack May 2012 LOCOG Fact pack May 2012 - Everyone’s Games - key facts - Games by numbers - Key dates coming up - Myth-buster - Issues Craig Beaumont, LOCOG Communications and Public Affairs [email protected] Everyone’s Games - key facts 57 million Britons are within 10 miles permanent live sites and 47 big screens across of the Olympic Flame, which will be carried by every UK nation and region 8,000 inspirational Torchbearers Over 350,000 spectators attended 14 million people across the UK have our London Prepares series of test events participated in a Cultural Olympiad event 241,000 people have visited the Olympic 12 million young people in 20 Park since 2007 countries reached by International Inspiration 200,000 people will be working on the Over 10 million free tickets are Games at Games time available for 1,000 London 2012 Festival events 175,000 schoolchildren and Over 8 million Games tickets accompanying adults will go to the Games for are going to Britons for the Games – 75% of a free through Ticketshare total 11 million tickets. (Beijing 2008 made 50% Over 100,000 children from over of just over 7 million tickets publicly available. 12,000 schools are involved in the School Games There are twice as many tickets available to the Up to 70,000 Britons will be London domestic public than at Athens 2004) 2012 Games Maker volunteers 5 million people in the UK have signed 46,000 people have worked on the up to receive Games-related emails Olympic Park and Village Over 4 million young people 14,000 spectators at the last BT took part in each of the last two Lloyds TSB Paralympic World Cup, which attracted 300,000 National Schools Sports Weeks online/broadcast viewers Over 2 million young are people 10,000 serving troops will go to the involved in the ‘Get Set’ education programme, in Games for free through Ticketshare 25,000 schools and colleges 10,000 Britons are involved in the on sale from Over 900,000 tickets Opening and Closing Ceremonies 11-16 May, prioritising unsuccessful applicants from previous rounds 9,000 Local Leaders have signed up to organise thousands of community events follow London Over 800,000 people including the Big Night In, Super Saturday and 2012 on social media sites. London 2012 Last Night of the Games YouTube videos have been seen 4 million times Over 2,000 British companies are being inspired 500,000 people have won more than £7.5 billion-worth of to choose sport with a £135 million investment contracts in 1,500 facilities, clubs, playing fields and participation programmes 30 miles of Games Lanes will be in place - less than any other Summer Games will celebrate at 500,000 people (Beijing 2008 had over 186 miles; Athens 2004 Live Sites every day during the Games, at 22 had over 99 miles) 2 Games by numbers Olympic Games Paralympic Games - 26 sports, 39 disciplines - 20 sports, 21 disciplines - 34 venues - 20 venues - 8.8 million tickets - 2.2 million tickets - 10,490 athletes - 4,200 athletes - 302 medal events - 503 medal events - 21,000 media and broadcasters - 6,500 media and broadcasters - 19 competition days (incl Football) - 11 competition days - 2,961 technical officials - 1,223 Games officials (technical - 204 National Olympic Committees officials and classifiers) - 5,770 team officials - 174 National Paralympic Committees - 5,000 anti-doping samples - 2,767 team officials - 1,250 anti-doping samples Public engagement - London 2012 Festival - 12 weeks across the - 11 million tickets (8.8m Olympic, UK from 21 June with 1,000 events and 10 2.2m Paralympic) million free opportunities - 200,000 Ticketshare tickets for schools, - 2,027 Inspire mark projects awarded, colleges, troops, and other worthy causes including c900 in sport and c500 in culture - 240,000 Games Maker applications; - 100,000 people have been engaged we have interviewed 85,000 so far, and through Community Relations at public made 65,000 offers. LOCOG guaranteed events across London an interview to over 1,000 Personal Best - 1,500 UK firms have already won contracts graduates who applied with the ODA worth £6.5bn, with LOCOG - 70,000 Games Makers will deliver 8 now awarding a further £1bn-worth to over million volunteer hours after 1 million hours 600 firms of training - 44 world-class companies signed up as - Total workforce of around 200,000 people, domestic sponsors, each activating their including more than 6,000 staff, 70,000 sponsorship in communities in London and volunteers and 100,000 contractors up and down the UK - 25,000 schools and colleges in the Get Set - 22 Live Sites and 47 big screens will be in programme, 17,000 in the Get Set Network place across every nation and region – more than 2 million students - Over 200 agreements signed by overseas - 3,673 London 2012 Open Weekend teams for Pre-Games Training Camps community events held over 4 years - 2,012 official pin badge designs 3 London Prepares Series - Pre-Games Test Events Live Site, sponsor showcases, concessions, - 42 sports events in 28 of our venues over 183 signage etc days of competition. - 3,500 cabins - 8,000 athletes from more than 50 countries - 200,000 temporary seats - Competition spanned all Olympic sports and - 7,500 temporary lights for broadcast of Field disciplines and 6 Paralympic sports - including of Play Olympic qualifiers, World Cups, British - 350 miles of cabling – could wrap the Championships, and International Invitational circumference of the London Eye 1.3 million events times - Over 25,000 workforce and 10,000 Games - 539,000sq ft of concrete ballast - the equivalent Maker volunteers welcomed over 350,000 of the weight of 30,000 elephants spectators - 76 miles (122km) of temporary fencing – enough to stretch from Canary Wharf to Olympic and Paralympic Flames Weymouth and Portland - 8,000 inspiring Olympic Torchbearers, - 10,000 temporary toilets – enough to service travelling 8,000 miles to over 1,000 the entire population of Malta communities, villages, towns and cities - 2,500 tent units – 2.5m sq ft, enough to cover - Each day, 110 Torchbearers (on average) will all of Hong Kong take part and the Flame will travel 110 miles - 16,500 telephones to be installed across (on average) each day venues - 300 metres – the average distance each - More than 350,000 fixtures and fittings Torchbearer will carry the Olympic Flame just in the Olympic and Paralympic Village; - 150 words were required for each nomination 250,000sq m of apartment space and more - 95% of the UK population will be within 10 than 250km of copper cable miles of the Flame - 2,818 apartments requiring16,000 beds, - 66 evening celebration towns and cities 9,000 wardrobes, 11,000 sofas, 22,000 - 70 days is the duration of the relay pillows, 1,200 blankets and 28,000 branded - Olympic Flame will visit all 33 London duvets Boroughs - 5,000-seat dining facility in the Village - 4 Paralympic Flame Festivals, with a 24-hour - 4,735sq m of turf to be reinstated at Lord’s after relay from Stoke Mandeville to the Olympic the Games and cricket season ends Stadium - 2,000 adjustable legs for Greenwich Park temporary arena Venue building – temporary venues and overlay - 100,000sq ft of retail space, incl 40,000sq ft - £35m-worth of venue overlay to install for the Megastore with 400-500 tills installed - Second ‘big build’ for temporary venues and overlay began in March: Equipment for Games time - Complete venues built from the ground up – - 1 million pieces of sport equipment are being Greenwich Park, Horse Guards Parade, sourced by LOCOG: The Mall - 510 adjustable hurdles for Athletics - Venues built except for Field of Play – Eton - 600 basketballs Dorney, Lee Valley, Hadleigh Farm - 541 life jackets (Canoeing, Marathon - Olympic Park venues – Riverbank Arena, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing and Triathlon) Water Polo Arena, Olympic Family - 2,200 dozen Tennis balls Hospitality Centre, Prestige Ticketing Centre, - 2,700 Footballs 4 - 53 sets of lane ropes for Swimming - 11 sponsor showcase areas - 6,000 Archery target faces - 1,000 picnic benches, 362 toilet blocks - 22 tape measures for Boccia and almost 4,000 bins including recycling - 356 pairs of Boxing gloves and composting bins - 12 pairs of goalposts for Handball - 273 temporary buildings for back-of-house - 120 head protectors for Taekwondo facilities – cleaning and waste compounds, - 99 training dolls for Wrestling and Judo equipment rooms and workforce areas - 375 doctors, 150 nurses, 200,000 pairs of including 7 canteens gloves and 150,000 condoms - 8.35km of waterways in and around Park, with - 766 miles of fabric needed for Games Maker 30 new bridges built crossing roads, rail lines uniforms and rivers to link the site together - Over 4,000 trees, 74,000 plants, 60,000 Games-time bulbs and 350,000 wetlands plants planted – - 20 million spectator journeys made in London, the largest planting project ever undertaken in 3 million on the busiest day the UK - 800,000 ticketed spectators will use public - 46,000 people have worked on the Olympic transport on the busiest day Park and Village. Of these, 8,500 were from - 600,000 pieces of luggage will be handled the Host Boroughs and more than 4,000 were during the Games at Heathrow Airport, previously unemployed. 457 apprenticeships 203,000 on the busiest day (13 August) – 35% were created more than on a normal day - 2,000 newts relocated from Olympic Park to - 14 million meals to be served at the Games, the Waterworks nature reserve Olympic Village will serve 45,000 meals a day - 200km of electrical cables – enough to stretch - 1 million sq ft of warehouse space
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