Olympic Writing Assignment
Running head: 2012 London Olympics
In the year 2005, London ‘s Mayor Ken Livingston signed with the International Olympic Committee agreeing to have his city for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The contract signed is an impressive masterwork of micro-management. When a city or country receives their set of 33 “Technical Manuals”, they find it hard to store while it takes up more than four feet of bookshelf space. Also, to go along with its technical manual, London must comply with the Olympics terms. London must be able to designate 250 miles of dedicated traffic lanes for the select use of athletes along with Olympic families (Gross, 2012). Members of the Olympic Family must also have at their leisure at least 500 air-conditioned limousines with chauffeurs wearing special uniforms and caps. Even more, London must also set aside and pay for 40,000 hotel rooms. These hotel rooms must fit the requirements of 1,800 four and five star rooms for the I.O.C. and its associates for the entirety of the Olympic games. These are just some of the expenses that London has to pay and prepare for well in advance to the games. London supported 43 venues in its games this past summer; this number was less than their predicted amount of games due to the expenses. With the number of venues London provided, expenses were highly up there in cost. When you think of the Olympics you don’t realize how much has to go into them, arenas, stadiums, fields, buildings, restrooms, electrical, and many more things dealing with the games have to be built and set up perfect. The Riverzone supported 4 main venues in the Thames Gateway area overlapping the River Thames. The first main venue was the ExCel, which held boxing, Judo, table tennis, fencing, wrestling, weightlifting, and Taekwondo. The second main venue was the Greenwich Park, which held equestrian and modern pentathlon. The third venue, being the North Greenwich Area; held two types being basketball and gymnastics. Lastly, The Royal
In the year 2005, London ‘s Mayor Ken Livingston signed with the International Olympic Committee agreeing to have his city for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The contract signed is an impressive masterwork of micro-management. When a city or country receives their set of 33 “Technical Manuals”, they find it hard to store while it takes up more than four feet of bookshelf space. Also, to go along with its technical manual, London must comply with the Olympics terms. London must be able to designate 250 miles of dedicated traffic lanes for the select use of athletes along with Olympic families (Gross, 2012). Members of the Olympic Family must also have at their leisure at least 500 air-conditioned limousines with chauffeurs wearing special uniforms and caps. Even more, London must also set aside and pay for 40,000 hotel rooms. These hotel rooms must fit the requirements of 1,800 four and five star rooms for the I.O.C. and its associates for the entirety of the Olympic games. These are just some of the expenses that London has to pay and prepare for well in advance to the games. London supported 43 venues in its games this past summer; this number was less than their predicted amount of games due to the expenses. With the number of venues London provided, expenses were highly up there in cost. When you think of the Olympics you don’t realize how much has to go into them, arenas, stadiums, fields, buildings, restrooms, electrical, and many more things dealing with the games have to be built and set up perfect. The Riverzone supported 4 main venues in the Thames Gateway area overlapping the River Thames. The first main venue was the ExCel, which held boxing, Judo, table tennis, fencing, wrestling, weightlifting, and Taekwondo. The second main venue was the Greenwich Park, which held equestrian and modern pentathlon. The third venue, being the North Greenwich Area; held two types being basketball and gymnastics. Lastly, The Royal