Sports at Olympic Games 2012

The 2012 Summer Olympic program features 26 sports and a total of 39 disciplines. The 2012 Paralympics Games program has 20 sports and 21 disciplines. For the first time, a woman’s boxing in included in the program, with 40 athletes competing in five different weight classes. There is a special dispensation to allow the various shooting events to go ahead, which would otherwise be illegal under U.K. gun law.

London's bid featured 28 sports, in line with other recent Summer Olympics, but the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball from the 2012 Games two days after it selected London as the host city. The IOC reinforced its decision to drop both sports during the 2006 Winter Olympics after they lost votes for reconsideration and were scheduled for the last time at Beijing in 2008.

 Following the decision to drop the two sports, the IOC held a vote on whether or not to replace them. The sports considered were karate, squash, golf, roller sports and rugby sevens. Karate and squash were the two final nominees, but neither received enough votes to reach the required two-thirds majority. The IOC has given the approval for the addition of golf and rugby sevens for the 2016 games. You can buy Olympic Tickets and also can Sell Olympic Tickets at Sport Ticket Exchange. Purchase Olympic Tickets from Sport Ticket Exchange at favorable rates. Sport Ticket Exchange is also offering handsome returns for Olympic Tickets Resale.

Merchandise for Olympics 2012

On 21 July 2009 the LOCOG announced that Hornby Plc had won the license to develop and market a range associated with the Games. The license allowed the company to sell products across its Corgi, Hornby, Scalextric and Air fix brands. Air fix will have kits for all of the main venues, including a 1:500 scale Olympic Stadium. The centre piece of the Scalextric collection will be a cycling Velodrome set. The collection was launched by British cyclist Lizzie Armitstead in Hamleys toy store in June 2011, Hornby staggered the release of the collection with the Scalextric velodrome released in September. In March 2011 the LOCOG commissioned and published a series of training guides. The merchandise was sold online and in five shops known as "The London 2012 Shop," in London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport, St Pancras International Station and Paddington Station and in John Lewis on Oxford Street. In addition Addidas sold its London 2012 range in its flagship store on Oxford Street and selective Next stores sold their 2012 range. Sainsbury’s as Official sponsors of the Paralympics also sold merchandise within their stores. 

As with other Olympics since 1952, the Royal Mint will strike a set of commemorative one-kilogram gold and silver coins. Olympic Tickets are easily available on Sport Ticket Exchange. Sport Ticket Exchange offers you Olympic Tickets for all sports and events. You buy Olympic Tickets and also can Sell Olympic Tickets at Sport Ticket Exchange. Purchase Olympic Tickets from Sport Ticket Exchange at favorable rates.

Environmental Policy for 2012 Olympic Games

The Olympic Park will incorporate 45 hectares of wildlife habitat, with a total of 525 bird boxes, and 150 bat boxes. Local waterways and riverbanks are to be enhanced as part of the process.

Renewable energy will also feature at the Olympics. It was originally planned to provide 20% of the energy for the Olympic Park and Village from renewable technologies; however, this may now be as little as 9%. Proposals to meet the original target included large-scale on-site wind turbines and hydroelectric generators in the River Thames. However, these plans were scrapped for safety reasons. The focus has since moved to installing solar panels on some buildings, and providing the opportunity to recover energy from waste.

Food packaging at the Olympics will be made from compostable materials like starch and cellulose-based bio plastics where it cannot be re-used or re-cycled. This will include fast food wrappers, sandwich boxes and drink cartons. After they have been used many of these materials will be suitable for anaerobic digestion (AD), allowing them to be made into renewable energy.

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Torch Relay for Olympics 2012

The Olympics torch relay will be run from 19 May – 27 July 2012, prior to the games. Plans for the relay have been further developed in 2010–11, with the torch bearer selection process announced on 18 May 2011. The torch relay will arrive on 18 May 2012 from Greece. 

The relay will last 70 days, with 66 evening celebrations, six Island Visits with about 8,000 people carrying the torch 300 m each, starting from Land's End in Cornwall. The torch will have one day outside of the United Kingdom when it will visit Dublin on June 6. The relay will focus on: National Heritage Sites, locations and venues with sporting significance, key sporting events, schools registered with the Get Set School Network, green spaces and biodiversity, Live Sites (city locations with large screens), festivals and other events.

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Olympic Games Introduction

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate. The Games are currently held every four years, with summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games. Originally, the ancient Olympic Games were held in Olympia, Greece, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1894. The IOC has since become the governing body of the Olympic Movement, whose structure and actions are defined by the Olympic Charter.

The evolution of the Olympic Movement during the 20th and 21st centuries has resulted in several changes to the Olympic Games. Some of these adjustments include the creation of the Winter Games for ice and winter sports, the Paralympics Games for athletes with a physical disability, and the Youth Olympic Games for teenage athletes. The IOC has had to adapt to the varying economic, political, and technological realities of the 20th century. As a result, the Olympics shifted away from pure amateurism, as envisioned by Coubertin, to allow participation of professional athletes. The growing importance of the mass media created the issue of corporate sponsorship and commercialization of the Games. World Wars led to the cancellation of the 1916, 1940, and 1944 Games. Large boycotts during the Cold War limited participation in the 1980 and 1984 Games.

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