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London 2012 Olympic Countdown
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What better way to start our countdown than with some of the latest pics of the London Olympic site and parklands:
Olympic Stadium which will host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies as well as the track and field events.
The Aquatic Centre which will host swimming and diving competitions
The up-close exterior of the Basketball arena
View of the baketball arena from distance
Inside the London Olympic velodrome
Olympic hockey venue
Evening view of the Olympic park
Olympic Water Polo Arena at night
Dorney Lake, home to rowing and canoe sprint events
Aerial view of the Olympic village as seen April 2012
Olympic Parklands
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The Olympic torch makes its way out of Ireland today bringing to an end a memorable 6 day tour of the island. The torch set off this morning from Newcastle, Co.Down and is expected to arrive in Stranraer, Scotland later today, kicking off a week long tour of the country.
Nice shot of Ronnie Delaney, Olympic 1,500m champion in 1956, carrying the Olympic torch
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It's now just 7 weeks to the day until the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics. Time will fly by between now and then and both organisers and athletes will be scrambling to put the final touches to their preparations.
Here are some indications as to how the streets of London might look during the Olympic Games, very colourful:
Elsewhere, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) have announced that they will be streaming 2,200 hours of live coverage of Olympic action live on their youtube channel. This will provide 64 countries in Asia and Africa access to live coverage of the event and is aimed at those countries that weren't sold digital broadcasting rights by the IOC. Commentary will be in English.0 -
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Another day closer....in 7 weeks time we will be witnessing the first 2012 Olympic champions receiving their medals. There will be 12 gold medals up for grabs on day 1 of competition and among the sports with medals to be decided on the opening day....archery, cycling (men's road race), judo (2 golds to be decided), shooting (2 golds to be decided), weightlifting, fencing, swimming (4 golds available on first day).
Overall, after 16 days of intense competition 302 gold medals will be won across 26 different Olympic sports. Here is a preview of how the victory ceremonies might look:
Costume design and podium
Victory bouquets
And the all important medals...
These ceremonies will break from the "norm" in that the medal ceremonies will be led out by female escorts and the medals and trays of flowers will be carried out by the men. This is a reversal of the traditional roles of victory ceremonies in that it is usually the women who carry out the trays of flowers and medals and the men usually escort the athletes and officials to the podium. Let's hope we see some Irish athletes being escorted to the winners podium come late July/early August.0 -
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To continue our countdown to the London 2012 Olympics here is a trip down memory lane with some of the TV Intro sequences to the most recent editions of the Games. I have at least a vague recollection of most of them from Barcelona onwards and I particularly remember well the BBC intros for both Beijing and Athens as well as RTE's Beijing 2008 intro. For some reason I don't recollect BBC's Sydney 2000 intro at all...probably due to the fact of the big time-differences meant I didn't see as much coverage of that Olympics as I would have liked.
Unfortunately the only RTE intro sequence I can find is the most recent one for Beijing 2008. It's a pity RTE don't put some of them up on youtube as I'm sure we'd all be familiar with some of their intros (albeit they were never too inventive, but I like the Beijing 2008 intro).
Beijing 2008 RTE Intro:
http://vimeo.com/15403559
Seoul 1988 BBC Intro
Barcelona 1992 BBC Intro
Atlanta 1996 BBC Intro
Sydney 2000 BBC Intro
Athens 2004 BBC Intro
Beijing 2008 BBC Intro (Long Version)
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Some more details of the Opening Ceremony have come to light today. Apparently the director of the Ceremony, Danny Boyle, is planning to include a set which depicts Britain's "green and pleasant land".
The set will include rivers, meadows, landmarks, families having picnics and perhaps most interestingly actual farmyard animals including 70 sheep, 12 horses, 3 cows, 2 goats, 3 sheepdogs, 10 chickens, 10 ducks and 9 geese!! 900 children aged from 7-13 will also take part in the live event...who ever said never work with animals or children!! Let's hope those ducks and geese don't act up...could get nasty!!
Over 10,000 volunteers have been recruited to take part in the Opening Ceremony and has been running to a budget of £81 million.
The ceremony is officially titled "Isles of Wonder"
Here is a pic of a model of the planned set:
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While awaiting Dan's daily update, I thought I'd just mention my first batch of tickets arrived yesterday - 2 x Athletics, 2 x Soccer, Track Cycling and Beach Volleyball.
Still awaiting Volleyball, Basketball and Diving
For anyone that's interested there are still tickets available for a number of sports plus the closing ceremony (£995 or more mind!)0 -
While awaiting Dan's daily update, I thought I'd just mention my first batch of tickets arrived yesterday - 2 x Athletics, 2 x Soccer, Track Cycling and Beach Volleyball.
Still awaiting Volleyball, Basketball and Diving
For anyone that's interested there are still tickets available for a number of sports plus the closing ceremony (£995 or more mind!)
"First batch"? That's the equivalent of an A-standard in ticket attainment.
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Yesterday we discussed the carrying of the nation's flag into the Olympic stadium during the Opening Ceremony and the huge honour that is attached to the role. Well think how much of an honour it must be to be asked to light the Olympic flame.
Rumours have been swirling in Britain and beyond about who'll light the flame in the Olympic cauldron in London. Front-runners in betting include Steve Redgrave, 5 time Olympic rowing champion; David Beckham who worked extensively in canvassing support for the decision to host the Games in London; Kelly Holmes, double Olympic champion in Athens 2004; Chris Hoy, 4 time Olympic track cycling champion; even the likes of Boby Charlton is up there in the betting odds.
It'll remain a secret until the moment is upon us but whoever is revealed as the lucky candidate on the day you can be sure it will be a memorable moment. The lighting of the Olympic cauldron is always one of the highlights of the Games and often one of the most memorable moments from that Olympics. The Beijing organisers done a fantastic job with the lighting of the cauldron...an unforgettable moment and really poignant to see Li Ning, winner of 3 gymnastics gold medals at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, being hoisted up to the top of the stadium and making his way right around to the cauldron. A scroll containing images of torch relays from all around the globe guided Ning towards the cauldron before he came to his big moment and ignited the Olympic flame. It was a masterpiece of artistry and a fitting way to close the spectacular ceremony.
Here is a reminder of that unforgettable moment when the Olympic flame was lit at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing as well as a look back at how some of the other host cities orchestrated the event (Barcelona 1992 was iconic as was the image of Muhammad Ali lighting the flame in Atlanta 1996):
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With exactly 6 weeks to go until the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony here are some of the latest pics of the Olympic Park:
Work on building the set for the Opening Ceremony is now underway:
Olympic Village:
Orbit Tower that will be open to the public during the Games where you can buy a ticket (£15) and go up the tower for a prime view of the Olympic site:
Aquatic Centre from outside:
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The first ring of our Olympic countdown clock is complete. It really won't seem long until the greatest show on earth is upon us.
The start of the Opening Ceremony at 9pm on the 27th July will be heralded in by the tolling of a 27-tonne bell hanging at one end of the Olympic Stadium, forged especially for the Ceremony.
As we have already discovered, an array of farmyard animals are to "star" in the spectacle but another bizarre feature of the Ceremony is that there are to be clouds sitting over the set, one of which will rain just in case they don't get any on the night...presumably to ensure there is a distinct British atmosphere on the night!! Apparently there will be a cricket match in play during the Ceremony too but of course if there's any sign of rain you'd imagine they'd be nowhere to be seen
The athletes will parade into the stadium and make their way around the stadium alongside the giant make-shift river and lakes.
Take That and the Who are expected to feature among the musical acts and Paul McCartney is to be the closing act of the Opening Ceremony.
The IOC have requested that the Ceremony must be over by midnight so as the athletes can get to bed on time!!
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With just 40 days to go to the London Olympics here's a preview of how the US track and field athletes will be kitted out for competition at the London Olympics:
3 times World 200m champ Allyson Felix sporting the new kit:
Apparantly, the suits are said to be more conducive to faster sprint times for 100m, 200m and 400m due to their design. Nike have been studying the aerodynamics of a golf ball and found that the dimples on a golf ball make it more efficient to travelling faster in the air....as such, these new suits contain dimples on the forearm and legs, the fastest moving parts of the body during sprint races.
Whether this is just another PR stunt by Nike or whatever the validity of their findings, the new kit gets a thumbs up from me....looking very slick Allyson! If nothing else it may provide the US athletes with an important pyschological advantage....if they think it makes them go faster and if they look good too in the process then it might give them the all important edge. Not sure if it can work the sort of miracles though that will see them challenge the Jamaicans, particularly Bolt.0 -
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Organisers have announced that the cable-car system over the river
Thames will be ready in time for the London Olympics. The Daily Mail reports that it was thought that the network would struggle to be open in time for the Games but it has been revealed that all of the security tests have been done and the new cable-car system is ready to open to the public.
Not only will it allow spectators a panoramic view of the Thames but it will also be a useful means of transporting fans from the O2 arena and the Excel centre (two of the sports venues in use at the Games).
There are 34 gondolas (cable-cars) in the network and is capable of carrying 2,500 passengers an hour across the Thames.
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Pisco Sour wrote: »Can we go back and retrospectively strip her of that?
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Wenlock and Madeville (London 2012 Olympic Mascots)
The first official Olympic mascot for a Summer Olympic Games was used back in Munich 1972....Waldi the dachshund would set the trend for the years to come....since then the mascot choices have progressively become more bizarre, no more so than this year's official mascots of the London 2012 Olympics, Wenlock and Mandeville who are made to resemble two drops of hot steel! Beijing 2008 organisers decided one mascot wasn't enough so like every other aspect of that Games, they pushed the boat out and chose no less than 5 official mascots, collectively called Fuwa!!
Bring back little Waldi I say!
Here is a run-down of the mascots from each Olympics:
Waldi the Dachshund (Munich 1972)
Amik the Beaver (Montreal 1976)
Misha the Bear (Moscow 1980)
Sam the Eagle (L.A. 1984)
Hodori the Tiger (Seoul 1988)
Cobi the Sheepdog (Barcelona 1992)
Izzy (Atlanta 1996)
Olly the Kookaburra), Syd the Platypus and Mille the Echidna (Sydney 2000)
Athena and Phevos (Athens 2004)
Beibei the Carp, Jingjing the Panda, Huanhuan the Child of Fire, Yingying the Tibetan Antelope and Nini the Swallow (Beijing 2008)
But even Waldi owes his origin to the 1968 Winter Olympic mascot from Grenoble, France....he isn't a patch on Waldi though! Needless to say they were opting for the minimalist approach that year...
Schuss (Grenoble 1968)
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