2012 London Olympics Pose Biggest Security Risk In Decades

London faces the largest security challenge since World War II when it hosts the 2012 Olympics, British security minister Alan West said Friday.
West told a London conference that the British capital will almost certainly be at a higher risk of a terrorist attack as an estimated 15,000 athletes, 14,000 coaches and officials and 20,000 media workers arrive for the games.
He said the country's threat level will likely rise to severe – the second highest rating on a five point scale – meaning an attack is considered highly likely.
"We are not complacent. We do not underestimate the scale of the Olympics challenge," West told the Royal United Services Institute think tank.
West, a former head of Britain's navy and defense intelligence staff, said the event would be "possibly the greatest security challenge the U.K. has faced since the Second World War."
Since 2001, Britain has invested heavily in anti-terrorism measures, increasing the size of domestic spy agency MI5 and raising the country's security budget to $6 billion.
The minister said a $1 billion fund has been set aside specifically for Olympic security.
West said work since the July 2005 transit network attacks in London, which killed 52 passengers and four suicide bombers, had "made the nation safer, but we are not safe – the threat is still there."
The London bombings came the day after the British capital was awarded the 2012 Olympics.
West said plans to secure the Olympics would reflect changing tactics used by terrorists.
He pointed to the use of boats to launch attacks last November which killed 166 people in Mumbai, India, and methods deployed in Lahore, Pakistan, in March in a gun assault on the Sri Lankan national cricket team.
Britain has installed barriers to defend against car bombs at most sports stadiums, transport hubs and shopping malls, and provided new guidelines on protecting crowded spaces. During the Olympics, police speed boats will patrol the River Thames.
West said that, despite the likely threats, he is confident in plans to secure the London games. If medals were awarded for security planning, Britain "would be on top of the podium wearing a gold," he said.

Unveils £700m deals to London 2010

The arrangers of the 2012 Olympic Games in London are putting £700m of contracts related to goods and services for the event out to tender.
There will be eight categories of goods and services for firms to win work.
The chairman of the London Olympics' organising committee, Sebastian Coe, said the scale of the contracts on offer was "potentially massive".
"The organising committee is now at a stage where we move from planning to delivery," he said.
"With less than three years to go, we're starting the procurement process for everything we need to stage a memorable Games.
"The scope of this is potentially massive - from sporting equipment to catering services and beyond."
He added that the games should be as much about a triumph for the "bottom line" as it was about the sports "finishing line".
'Opportunities'
Firms seeking to win contracts will have to abide by the rules set out by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Locog).
The vast majority of Locog's procurement will go through the website Compete For, an online service for matching potential suppliers with games-related business opportunities.
"There are many opportunities for companies of all sizes to get involved with London 2012 - whether it's directly through Locog or through one of our sponsors, stakeholders or suppliers further down the supply chain," said Locog procurement director Gerry Walsh.
"The opportunities are out there and I would urge anyone who is interested to sign up to our procurement portal Compete For."
'Opens the door'
Meanwhile, although the majority of contracts have now been granted by the Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) - responsible for the games' infrastructure, there is still up to £1bn of goods and services work still to be awarded.
Contracts available through the ODA include facilities management, design and temporary construction.
And it is also hoped that UK firms can use experience gained in seeking London 2012 work to enable them to win contracts on offer from other host major sporting events.
Forthcoming global events include the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Russia's hosting of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games and Brazil's hosting of both the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
"There are still plenty of opportunities for British businesses to benefit from the Olympics," said Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell.
"With host countries like, Russia, Brazil and South Africa needing to develop their infrastructure beyond just the sports events there is huge potential for UK businesses to get involved and London 2012 opens the door for them."

Glasgow deserves share of London Olympic cash, says SNP candidate

SNP by election candidate David Kerr has vowed to fight for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to be afforded its share of Olympic regeneration money. Mr Kerr said that Glasgow deserves the same deal as London and that, if elected, he will put pressure on the Treasury to pay Scotland its fair share of regeneration investment around the London 2012 Olympics. He claims spending by Westminster on regeneration around the London Olympics should generate s165m - s33m per annum over the five years to 2012-13 - for Scotland under the Barnett formula. Mr Kerr said: "The Commonwealth Games is as important to Glasgow as the Olympics are to London. "The Scottish Government is putting in 80 per cent of the funding for the Commonwealth Games - but we are doing it without the s33 million a year of regeneration funding that should be coming Glasgow's way."If London can get central funding to regenerate their East End because of the Olympics why should Glasgow not get the Barnett Consequentials from this spending to help regenerate the city following the Commonwealth Games?"

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Handball Arena (2012 Olympics)

Olympic Park in Stratford, East London will be hosted the London Olympics 2012 Handball Games


London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing will now take place at ExCeL.

The Handball Arena will have 6,000 to 7,000 seats. It will be used for handball preliminaries and quarter finals and modern pentathlon fencing and shooting during the Olympic Games, and for goalball during the Paralympic Games. The handball semi finals and final will be held at the larger Basketball Arena. The Olympic Delivery Authority plans to submit a planning application in September 2008 and complete the building in 2011. Post 2012 it will be changes to become a multi-sport arena for community use, athlete training and small-to-medium scale events. It will be the only permanent indoor arena retained in the Olympic Park, as the Basketball Arena will be relocated.

Basketball Arena (2012 Olympics)

The Basketball Arena for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England will be situated in the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London.

London's Olympic bid proposed that there would be four arenas in the Olympic Park, but the revised masterplan published in 2006 reduced this to three, with the volleyball being moved to Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The fencing arena was also cancelled, and the fencing will now take place at ExCeL.

The Basketball Arena will have 12,000 seats for Olympic basketball and the semi-finals and finals of the Olympic handball, and 10,000 for Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. Concept designs were agreed in June 2008 and a planning application is due to be submitted in November 2008. It will be a temporary venue, and it is hoped that it will be reassembled elsewhere in the UK after the games.

In early October 2008 it was speculated that Wembley Arena could be used as a replacement venue for the preliminary rounds of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament instead of the Basketball Arena, thus saving up to £90 million but in March 2009 it was confirmed that a new arena will be built in Stratford as originally proposed.

Olympic Hockey Centre (London) 2012

London's Olympic Hockey Centre will be constructed in the Olympic Park at Stratford in East London, England. It will consists of two venues for the Olympic hockey competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics with capacities of 15,000 and 5,000 respectively. The budget for the centre is £19 million. After the games the hockey centre will be scaled down to a 5,000 seat arena and a training pitch and moved north to Eton Manor

Olympic London - Velopark

Leyton East London where London Velopark to be constructed is a cycling centerin England. It will give out as one of the 'Big Five' permanent Olympic venues for the 2012 Games.The Velopark will be located at the northern end of London's Olympic Park.
The financial support for the Velopark was confirmed in February 2005 and the project was planned to go further whether or not London's proposal for the 2012 Summer Olympics was successful.
The capacity of spectator of 6000 rather than 1500 seats in Velopark, which will be used for the Olympics is the outdoor BMX.
In addition to the two Olympic venues the London Velopark will feature a 1.6 km road racing circuit, and a cross-country mountain bike course. The Velopark is planned to be finished in 2011. In 2004, during London's Olympic bid, the estimated cost was £37 million, including £20 million for the velodrome.Since London won the games, the planned size of the velopark has been compact from 34 hectares to 10 hectares. The road and mountain bike circuits will be far smaller than originally proposed, and the promised cycle speedway track will not be built.

Aquatics Centre London, Olympics

The London Aquatics Centre is an interior support with two 50m swimming pools and a 25m diving pool, which will be one of the major venues of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. constructed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Zaha Hadid, the centre is situated in the Olympic Park at Stratford in East London. Its characteristic architecture and curved roof will be the first venue visitors see upon entering the Olympic Park, and are close to the Olympic Stadium.

The centre will be for the Olympic action of swimming, diving, synchronised swimming and water polo final. During the Games it will have a capacity of 17,500, which will be reduced to 2,500 after the Games. It is accepted that the centre will leave a legacy of replacing the pools at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in South London as the UK's most important facility for aquatic sports.

Presently the only Olympic sized swimming pools in the UK are in Sheffield, Leeds, Sunderland, Cardiff and Glasgow, although in addition to London a pool is being constructed in Plymouth. There are however many more 50m pools that do not meet all the criterion to be labelled 'Olympic-sized'.

Construction
Construction started on the 17 July 2008, 2 months ahead of plan and is due to be completed in 2011 by construction firm Balfour Beatty.

Cost
On 8 April 2008 it was accepted that the centre will cost about three times as was originally calculated, totalling about £242m.

Olympic Stadium London - Construction Process

The stadium design was released on 7 November 2007. As a "distinctive 80,000 seat stadium, it will be the attraction for the 2012 Games, hosting the opening and closing ceremonial and the athletics actions, converting down to a 25,000 seat permanent stadium after the Games, when it will become a new home for athletics, combined with other sporting, community and educational uses", LOCOG.


As of June 2009, the stadium's track-and-field arena has been dig out of the soft clay found on the site, around where possible seating or 25k, using concrete "rakers". The natural slope of the land is incorporated into the design, with warm-up and changing areas being dug into a semi-basement position at the lower end. A demountable lightweight steel and concrete upper tier has been built up from this “bowl” to accommodate a further 55,000 viewers, and is nearing conclusion

Olympic Stadium - London

The London Olympic Stadium will be the focus of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stadium will be situated at Marshgate Lane in Stratford in the Lower Lea Valley and will have a capacity for the Games of just about 80,000 making it for the moment the third-largest stadium in Britain behind Wembley Stadium and Twickenham Stadium. Land preparation for the stadium started in mid-2007, with the official construction start date on 22 May 2008, although support works for the foundation unofficially began 4 weeks ahead of that date.

Location	Stratford, London, Great Britain
Broke ground	2007
Built	(Expected completion 2011)
Operator	Olympic Delivery Authority
Surface	Track & Field (Grass)
Construction cost	£469 Million ($808 million)
Architect	Populous and Sir Peter Cook
Structural engineer	Buro Happold
Services engineer	Buro Happold
Main contractors	Sir Robert McAlpine
Capacity	80,000 (25,000 Post Olympics) [

London Olympics Venues

Venue	Sport(s)	Comment
Olympic Stadium	athletics	80,000-seat venue also to be used for opening and closing ceremonies
Olympic Park Arenas	volleyball, handball, basketball, fencing, modern pentathlon	four new arenas holding between 8,000 and 12,000 spectators
Aquatics Centre	swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, water polo and modern pentathlon	50m and 25m pools
Velodrome	cycling	seating for 6,000 spectators.
BMX circuit	BMX	purpose-built for the newest Olympic event
Hockey centre	hockey	a competition pitch and a warm-up pitch in a 15,000-seat outdoor arena
Wembley	football	see also regional centres below
Wimbledon	tennis
Lord's Cricket Ground	archery
Horse Guards Parade	beach volleyball
Regents Park	softball, baseball, cycling
Hyde Park	triathlon
Eton Dorney	rowing, flatwater canoe/kayak
The Dome	gymnastics, basketball
ExCel Arena	weightlifting, taekwondo, table tennis, boxing, wrestling, judo
Greenwich Arena	gymnastics and badminton	next to the Dome, temporary indoor venue with 6,000 capacity
Greenwich Park	equestrian, modern pentathlon
Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich	shooting
Broxbourne	canoe/kayak (slalom)
Weald Country Park	mountain biking
Weymouth, Dorset	sailing
Hampden Park, Old Trafford, Villa Park, St James' Park	football

London Olympics 2012 Interesting Videos

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG)

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is accountable for arranging and managing the 2012 Games.

LOCOG is led by Sebastian Coe (Chair) and Paul Deighton (Chief Executive). It is based in Canary Wharf along with the Olympic Delivery Authority.

By the time of the 2012 Opening Ceremony around 100,000 people will be working on the Games - including 3,000 staff, up to 70,000 volunteers and a large number of contractors. All permanent positions have been advertised.

LOCOG is manageable for staging a unforgettable Games in 2012.

We will provide the best likely Olympic and Paralympics Games experience for everyone involved, ensuring a real legacy and inspiring people to join in.

LOCOG will let most of the contracts for services to deliver and run the Games. Major procurement for contracts starts in 2009.

As well as dramatization the 2012 Games, LOCOG will also be managable for staging a series of test measures in the year before the Games; hiring and training volunteers; and overseeing the four year Cultural Olympiad leading up to the Games.

London’s Olympic fire Goes Carbon on the fence

Ever since the Sydney summer games, the Olympics have attempted to lead the way in terms of environmental sustainability. So far all newly-constructed Olympic buildings have fulfilled severe green standards, but the flame kept the same- until now. The London organizers have determined that, as they wish to be remembered as the greenest Olympics ever, the flame will be carbon neutral.

Instead of paraffin or other similar high carbon fuels, the London organizers are researching a low-carbon fuel to light and uphold the Olympic flame. “The Olympic games and Paralympics games have the power to set plans, and change performance, and applying sustainability principles to one of the most potent symbols of the Games will, we hope, help us do just that.”

Benefits of work at Olympics 2012

It is our plan that jobs in London 2012 will be one of our employees’ most memorable life and work experiences.

Whether you work for LOCOG or the ODA, you will be joining a project that happens only once in a lifetime. Working for London 2012 is the opportunity to share a time of history – not just in the UK, but on a internations stage.

Both are world-class organisations, with highly talented and motivated specialists in wide-ranging fields sharing their skills and experience. And both are committed to diversity and equality.

You would be working in a dynamic, fast-moving organisation. We are not only open to innovation – we demand it. And no two working days will ever be the same.

And, of course, your dedication and commitment will not go unrecognised. Both organisations offer attractive reward packages and benefits to employees.

Why work for London 2012

Our vision is to use the power of the Games to inspire change. We need remarkable people to help us.

In the run up to 2012, we are looking for brilliant, devoted people to work across a wide range of job positions.

(LOCOG is the privately-funded company managing for arranging the Games. Tasks in the companies choice from sports competition managers and project planners to cultural curators and functional specialists.

There are also many other chances to work for Games-related contractors and suppliers and. Consultants.

London Olympics 2012 and job opportunities

A work at London 2012 is your possibility to share a time of history – not just in the UK, but on a worldwide stage.

Our theam is to use the influence of the Games to motivate change.

In the run-up to 2012, we are looking for talented, dedicated and hard work people to work across a variety of positions. Vacancies are offered at both the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).

We are committed to employing the most varied and inclusive teams possible. If you work with us, you can be sure you are joining a project which happens only once in a lifetime.

Olympics - Transport for London (TFL)

Transport for London (TfL) is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London in England. Its role is to implement the transport strategy and to manage transport services across London

TfL was made in 2000 as part of the Greater London Authority by the Greater London Authority Act 1999. It gained most of its functions from its predecessor London Regional Transport in 2000. It did not take over responsibility for the London Underground until 2003, after the controversial Public-private partnership (PPP) contract for maintenance had been agreed. Management of the Public Carriage Office had previously been a function of the Metropolitan Police.

Transport for London Group Archives holds business records for TfL and its predecessor bodies and transport companies. Some early records are also held on behalf of TfL Group Archives at the London Metropolitan Archives.

History of London Olympics

1908
Summer Olympics held in London
The Games of the IV Olympiad) were the third to be hosted outside of Athens and were listed to take place in Rome, but the outbreak of Mount Vesuvius on 7 April 1906 required the Italian Government to redirect funds away from the Olympics. The proceedings took place between 27 April 1908 and 31 October 1908, with 22 nations participating in 110 events. The British team easily topped the unofficial medal count, finishing with three times as many medals as the second-place United States.

1944
1944 Summer Olympics Cancelled
The Summer Olympics of 1944 were to be held in London having been awarded in 1939. However, they were cancelled due to World War II. In lieu of the Olympics, a small special sporting competition was held in Lausanne, at IOC HQ.

1948
The 1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Games were the first to be held after World War II, with the 1944 Summer Olympics having been cancelled due to the war. 59 nations (Germany and Japan had not been invited) competed in 136 events between 29 July 1948 and 14 August 1948. due to security reasons. British athletes finished 12th in the unofficial medal count with only 23 medals.

2000 The UK Bids
In December 2000 a report from the British Olympic Association was shown to Government ministers. They had been working on the bid since 1997.

2005
The London 2012 Olympic bid was announced as the winner of the bidding process on 6 July 2005.

2008
2008 Summer Olympics
To be held in Beijing, China between August 8, 2008 and August 24, 2008. Concerns have been raised that many events will be compromised by problems with pollution and air quality.

2012
2012 Summer Olympics
The Games will take place between 27 July 2012 and 12 August 2012.

2012 Summer Paralympic Games
The fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August 2012 and 9 September 2012 at the Summer Olympics venues in London.

LOC (London Organising Committee)

The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games is charged with running the games following the success of the bid and is chaired by Lord Coe. Construction of the venues and infrastructure is in the hands of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). See our Olympics Structure and Finance page for more details.

Olympic 2012 London

Olympic Games has hosted by London on two times, in 1908 and 1948. 2012 is the third occasion for London to host Olympics games. The intended 2012 Olympics will make London the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads. The London City is the only city in the UK to have ever hosted the Olympics Games; the United States is the only country to have hosted Summer Olympics on more occasions than the UK. No any city in the UK has given the chance to host the Winter Olympic Games.

British participation in Olympic events, both as a competitor and as a host, is the responsibility of the British Olympic Association.