Olympics 2012 at SE1
Who would have thought the next Olympic Games would be in England, London SE1 the capital. There is so much excitement for the great event and so much going on to prepare for it. The Games are funded by 2 organisations one is private and one is public – The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympics Games (LOCOG) is the private one and the public one is Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). Another funder is the National Lottery and they have funding £2.2bn to help the life of the people in South East London for years to come. Each of these have given a lot to make this happen, it will be one of the biggest events in history for London, SE1.
In the construction of the Olympic park there are also other aspects which are going to affect the area such as making over 30 bridges and pathways for transport and people to gain access to the park. Another key element to the Olympics and the environment is the Energy centre which is uses woodchip as fuel to heat using a biomass boiler. The energy centre will be providing the energy for all of the outlets surrounding the park. This is very economic feature which does not waste money and emissions by using the standard way for heating. For the electricity the Substation will distribute electricity using 100km of electrical cabling which will also be available to the other venues at the park, this is very good for the London SE1 area as it is giving an example that we can produce heating and electricity without polluting the world. Waste is another key area that has problems and the Olympic park has tackled this by creating a Pumping station which gathers all the waste from the venues and the park during the games and then it will gather from the residents in the surrounding areas such as SE1 after the games. The progress of the park is on schedule, 6th August the 2012th seat was installed and the roof was covered. There is going to be 7,000 seat handball arenas which the structure is complete, there is going to be 11 residential plots and 5 of them are complete.
There are 38 areas of sports which will be being held at the games and these are: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Canoe Slalom, Canoe Sprint, Cycling – BMX, Cycling – Mountain Bike, Cycling –Road, Cycling – Track, Diving, Equestrian – Dressage, Equestrian – Eventing, Equestrian – Jumping, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics – Artistic, Gymnastics – Rhythmic, Gymnastics – Trampoline, Handball, Hockey, Judo, Modern Pentathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Synchronised Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball, Water Polo, Weightlifting and Wrestling. All of these will be featured at the Olympic park in 2012.
One of the key parts of the Olympics is the transport to get there, there are specific rail links that take you straight to the park these are Stratford International, Stratford and Westham. One tube which is very close is Pudding Mill Lane, SE1. The Olympic park is trying to get the transport as easily accessible for the spectators and trying many different forms as well as the standard. These are going to be train, underground, light rail, coach, bus there is also dealings with the river service and taxi service to see if there is some way that these can help with the transportation as well.
As this is a very large and spectacular event there needs to be a very high level of security for the spectators, competitors, workers and residents near the area. There is planning for security from many different authorities such as the Home Office, Chief Police Officers, Metropolitan Police Service, Dorset Police, Essex Police, Hertfordshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police. The London Fire Brigade, London Ambulance Service and many other government departments.
The cost of the tickets has now been revealed and they will be on sale from March 2011 the prices vary depending on what sport you wish to see. There is a pricelist available on the website and it includes all the prices for each sport, the stage and the band of price you want.
If you are visiting from a long distance there are plenty of hotels that you can stay in within the London SE1 area which will allow you to be very close to the Olympic park and other amenities in the area for sightseeing during your stay.