The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd Progress Report to the ASOIF General Assembly and the GAISF General Assembly March 2009
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The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Ltd Progress report to the ASOIF General Assembly and the GAISF General Assembly March 2009 sport Contents Chairman’s message and report summary 4 Sport and Venues progress 7 Games venues 10 Games operations 14 Games management 18 Sport participation 22 Sport by sport progress reports 24 Venue map 54 Aerial shot of the Olympic Stadium November 2008 3 Chairman’s message and I am delighted to introduce this Iconic London settings and locations London 2012 Olympic Games and such as Buckingham Palace, Houses report summary Paralympic Games progress report. of Parliament, Tower Bridge and other landmarks will also provide Firstly, I would like to congratulate dramatic backdrops for Olympic and our colleagues from the Beijing 2008 Paralympic sports in 2012. Organising Committee – those here at Sportaccord and those back in Following the Games, the Olympic China – on the superb job they did. Park will be transformed into The IOC President spoke for all of us Europe’s largest new sports and when he described Beijing 2008 as community park, providing a hub of an ‘exceptional Games.’ much needed new world-class sports venues in London. I also want to pay tribute to the international sports federations, We have launched domestic and federation leaders, administrators, global Olympic and Paralympic staff and technical delegates and sport, education and culture officials who worked at this year’s programmes to help inspire and Games. Your efforts and support for involve more young people in sport. the BOCOG sports, competition and venues teams in preparation for test Excitement, interest and participation and Games events played a key role in the London 2012 Olympic and in the success of the Beijing Games Paralympic Games preparations and I look forward to welcoming you continues to grow across the to London over the coming years. United Kingdom following the success of the British Olympic and Since the summer, we have passed Paralympic teams in Beijing, and the halfway mark in preparations for the establishment of a growing the London 2012 Games. number of London 2012 projects. These include the UK Pre-Games With less than three and a half years Training Camps financial awards to go, the foundations have been programme for national Olympic established for London to deliver on and Paralympic teams, and the 2012 our commitment to stage a Games Cultural Olympiad and education that reconnects young people with programme. sport, and leaves a lasting legacy of community regeneration. The Beijing Games, with its spectacular sport, reassured us that Following extensive consultation we were right to have placed sport with the International Federations and athletes as the top priority in (IFs) and the International Olympic all stages of planning for the 2012 and Paralympic Committees, a Games. compact venues masterplan has been developed. This plan provides swift In collaboration with IFs and key and safe transport for athletes and Games client groups, strategic plans sports officials, and will showcase for each sport/discipline are being sports in a stunning range of developed, including: existing, temporary and new venues. – competition formats, schedules These include Wimbledon, the new and staffing structures; Wembley, Lord’s Cricket Ground and – venue and technology Hyde Park. Meanwhile, construction requirements; of the new Olympic Stadium is – sports equipment; ahead of schedule, along with other – results and entry systems; new venues in the Olympic Park – enhanced sports presentation; in east London, centrepiece for the – high-level services for athletes, IFs 2012 Games. and technical delegates; – delivery requirements for medical and anti-doping services; and – sports-specific volunteer roles and numbers. 4 Also working with IFs, our testing Key lessons, observations and programme is being established, experiences from the Beijing along with draft lists of training sites Games relating to venue and and construction requirements; sports sports performance and client managers have been appointed experience will be integrated into for each sport; early field-of-play our operational and service delivery technical specifications are under planning and testing in the months development with IFs, along with ahead. transport journey maps for athletes, federation staff and technical officials Every Host City and Organising to all Games venues. This planning Committee must respond and adapt provides the framework for the to prevailing local and global delivery of memorable Games in conditions during planning and 2012. preparations for the Games, and for us this means acknowledging that we The London 2012 Organising are now in a very different economic Committee is also shifting to a and financial environment to the more Games-focussed structure – one in which we bid for the 2012 as you would expect as we move Games. into more advanced stages of the planning cycle, centred more on the But I want to reassure you that our development of operational planning financial planning, revenues and for Games delivery. expenditures remain on target, and we are committed to delivering the Priorities for the year ahead promises we made to you, several of include maintaining momentum which have already been delivered, on construction of new venues, and the remainder of which we will led by our colleagues at the continue to implement between now Olympic Delivery Authority and the Games. (ODA), to ensure all new venues are complete by 2011. This will While planning will continue to enable comprehensive pre-Games evolve through to Games time, our operational testing of facilities, belief in the inspirational power of essential to Games readiness, the Olympic and Paralympic Games performance and success. We will to transform communities and change also continue planning for all other lives will continue to drive our vision venues. for London 2012. Great sport occurs in great venues I look forward to catching up with and a major priority for us over the many of you at the events and next year will be the beginning of meetings being organised this year. our detailed operational planning. Best regards, The process, information and templates established will help us to standardise operational planning for the venues that will showcase your sports, and will be tested in the lead-up to the Games to ensure consistency of operations and service levels across all competition venues. Seb Coe, This will help us to plan and provide Chair, London 2012 Organising unique experiences for you, the Committee athletes, and all other clients at Games time. 5 The footprint of the Velodrome can now be clearly seen 6 Sport and Venues Sport Department Sport Advisory Group The LOCOG Sport Department, led The LOCOG Sport Advisory progress by Director of Sport Debbie Jevans, Group plays a leading role in the has made significant progress over development of Games services the past 12 months, preparing and policy on behalf of athletes, detailed plans to deliver across and is chaired by British Olympic the areas of sports competition, Triple Jump champion Jonathan operations, medical services, anti- Edwards with Britain’s greatest ever doping and NOC/NPC Relations. Paralympian, Dame Tanni Grey- Thompson, as vice-chair. Between In 2009 the Sport Department will them, the members of the group continue to work with the Venues have competed at 22 Olympic and and Infrastructure Department on 7 Paralympic Games. The group technical and operational design continues to meet quarterly to advise of the venues to ensure all facilities on all aspects of sport and athlete meet International Federation (IF) welfare for both the Olympic and and sport requirements. The Sport Paralympic Games, ensuring that we Department will maintain continued deliver the correct level of service to and ongoing engagement with IFs the athletes. and other key stakeholders as we move into the detailed operational planning phase. In addition to regular IF visits the Sport Department has recently launched a quarterly e-newsletter to communicate the latest developments. The steel framework of the Aquatics Centre takes shape 7 Sport Competition Sport Policy and Operations Sport managers have been Significant progress has been made appointed to 27 of the 28 positions, in the areas of enhanced sports with the remaining appointments presentation, training venues, sport to be made in the first quarter of equipment and Memorandum of 2009. All appointed sport managers Understanding (MOU) development. worked in Beijing alongside Formal applications from potential their BOCOG counterparts, the Games-time training venues are International Federations and under consideration, with proposed International Paralympic Sports IF/IPSF sign-off expected around Federations, securing the latest mid-2009. Sport Pictogram designs in Games-time experience and have been developed and, following knowledge. The team continues in-principle approval from the IOC to liaise closely with IFs on venue and IPC, we are seeking approval related issues and provides ongoing from each IF and IPSF. technical input into venue design. Scoping work has been carried out Detailed work has also begun on on the sports equipment requirements the sports event programme and and procurement of the 1,000,000 daily competition schedule. The pieces of equipment will also first draft of the sports competition begin this year. This process will schedule will be revised to enable us begin earlier in the planning cycle to create detailed ticketing business for the Games to ensure the most and marketing plans. The IOC is cost effective way of procuring expected to finalise the list of events the equipment is applied, and that and athlete quotas in 2009, followed sufficient equipment is available by further development of the for the beginning of our testing competition schedule with input from programme in 2011. MOUs the IOC, IPC, Olympic Broadcast are currently being developed Service, IFs, IPSFs and relevant for each sport, while detailed service areas within LOCOG.