One of the many things that the whole world talked about was the Games of the XXX Olympiad, officially known as the '12 Summer Olympic Games. It was held in London, from the 27th of July to the 12th of August 2012. There were at least 10, 000 athletes. Their motto was Inspire a Generation .
The event was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Musical performers included Mike Oldfield, London Symphony Orchestra with Rowan Atkinson, Arctic Monkeys and Sir Paul McCartney.
The closing ceremony was held on the 12th of August 2012 and it included the handover of the Olympic flag to Brazil, the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
People from all over the world visited London for the Olympics. Over 9,000,000 tickets have been sold, from around $30 for standard seats to around $3,000 for the best seats.
Here are some facts about the Olympics:
- Of the 10,500 athletes competing in the main Olympics, 4,688 were women and 5,802 were men.
- In March 2007, the budget for the Games, originally £2.4 billion, raised upwards: to £9.3 billion.
- London is the only city to host the modern Olympics three times.
- The last time London hosted the Games, in 1948, there were 4,104 athletes (3,714 men and 390 women)
- The budget then was £600,000.
- London also hosted the Games in 1908, when 2,008 athletes (1,971 men and 37 women),
- The budget for the 1908 Games was £75,000.
- The London 2012 logo was revealed on the 4th of June 2007.
- Created by Wolff Olins, the design costed £400,000.
- Construction of the Olympic Stadium began in May 2008.
- It was expected to have a capacity of 80,000.
- On 11 March 2011, the first tickets go on sale.
- 26 Olympic sports were played
Approximately 1000 Olympic medals were produced by Royal Mint.
Out of those medals USA won the most (104).
There were 32 world records broken on the Olympic Games. For example, Dániel Gyurta, a Hungarian swimmer set a world record time of 2:07.28 in the discipline Men's 200 meter breaststroke, Dana Vollmer from the USA set a world record time of 55.98 in Women's 100 meter butterfly.
I had a really great time watching the Olympics and I can' t wait the '16 Summer Olympic Games. :-)
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