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LONDON
2012
TRIVIA
Olympic Stadium
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The Olympic Stadium will have a capacity
of 80,000 during the Games
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It is the lightest Olympic stadium ever
built. The fourteen lighting towers are
needed because this the first Olympic
Games with HD TV freeze-frame coverage
that will be essential to capture the action
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Part of the supporting structure of the
roof is formed from 2,500 tonnes of steel
tubing that was actually recycled from old
gas pipelines
Aquatics Centre
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The steel used to build the Aquatics centre
comes from Newport in Wales
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The wave shaped roof on the Aquatics
Centre measures 12,000 square metres
which is one and a half times bigger than
Wembley football field
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The amount of material that had to be
excavated to build the Aquatics centre was
the equivalent of 160,000 tons of soil
Velodrome
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The Velodrome is one of the most
sustainable venues in the Olympic Park. The
lightweight roof weighs roughly half that of
any other covered Velodrome, helping create
a highly-efficient building
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The Velodrome ‘Cable – net’ roof is made
from 17 km of steel cables. That’s over 10
miles of steel cable, twice the height of
Mount Everest
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The designers and builders of the London
2012 Velodrome are aiming for it to be the
fastest indoor cycling track in the world
International Broadcast Centre/
Main Press Centre
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The International Broadcast Centre will
be a 24 hour media hub for around 20,000
broadcasters, photographers and journalists
who will bring the Games to an estimated
four billion people worldwide
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It is the size of six full size football fields
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The biggest fork lift truck in the country
was used during the erection of the steel
frame
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