The 2012 Olympics is also intended to be the first 100% public transport Games, with up to 800,000 people using the public transport network to access the Games venues on the busiest days. By doing so, they hope to bring about long term environmental benefits to London long after the Games has finished.
They are aiming to produce a zero carbon, zero waste event (on-site at least). The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) has been working hard to prioritise the environment, and to go further than any previous Olympic Games. Perhaps the best known example is the Athens Olympics of 2004.īuilding a stadium is bound to make some mess. Mega events have in the past been the subject of much criticism for the perceived (and often real) negative and long-lasting impacts that they have on their host destinations. There are only a few examples – Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, FIFA Soccer World Cup, and World Fairs and Expos are really the only events with such global pulling power. In events research, we use the term “mega events” to refer to events of a global size, scale and importance. In all senses of the word, these Games are going to be mega.
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Nine million tickets for various sporting and cultural events are on sale, and a worldwide TV audience of up to 4 billion is predicted. Let’s talk numbers: 14,700 athletes, 25,000 members of the media, up to 70,000 Games Makers (volunteers), and countless administrators and officials will be in attendance. Can this really be the case when so many people and so much building are involved? At the same time, the organising committee are promising the most sustainable Olympics ever. The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are just around the corner, and promise to be a great global spectacle.