"All the venues within the Olympic Park will be completed at the end of this year." Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Olympic Park project director Stephen Cooper has disclosed that the London Olympic Games venue construction has entered the final stage. "We are pleased that all projects are completed on time and on budget, this is a happy result." Cooper said.
London Olympic venues concentrated in the Eastern District of New Stratford. Beginning in 2006, ODA in the area where the construction of a 3.05 square kilometers of the Olympic Park, focused on the Olympic Stadium ("the London bowl"), water sports center, basketball, Velodrome, Hockey Hall of seven venues, large-scale The Olympic Village is also located here.
Among them, the cost of 42 million pounds of basketball on January 9 completed, the Olympic Park to become the first four deliveries of the venues. It is understood that the stadium can accommodate 12,000 spectators, will be held after the Olympic Games Paralympic wheelchair rugby.
In addition to new venues outside London will be on the existing 13 venues for expansion. Among them, England's home, has a long history of Wembley Stadium will be the Olympic football stadium. As Wimbledon venue, the All England Lawn Tennis Club will host the Olympic tennis competition. According to British media reports, both venues are close to finishing the renovation and expansion, is expected to be completed in October this year.
In the interview with this reporter, the CEO of LOCOG said Paul Dayton, Olympic venue construction has entered the final stage, the next stage of the main task is to test the game. Cooper also confirmed that, starting from the 27th, ODA will have basketball and the Velodrome for hardware debugging. From August 16 to 21, the Olympic basketball tournament will be the first test. Will be invited to China, Australia, Croatia, France, Serbia, this combat team. Other items in the test events will start later.
As the gateway to the Olympic Park, Stratford station has also recently completed. Reporter visited the station, located south of the Olympic Park, through the bridge directly stadium. The station is an integrated transport hub, brings together a total of two subway, a light rail and a national railway. The station can be easily reached through the center of London Oxford Circus, Liverpool Street Station, and south of Greenwich.
It is understood that the UK has invested £ 6.5 billion to improve the traffic environment during the Olympics, "the London Olympics will be a catalyst to improve the UK transport hardware. This conversion will ensure that the Olympic Games - the world's largest sporting event with a safe, efficient transportation the environment. "British Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said.
London Olympic venues concentrated in the Eastern District of New Stratford. Beginning in 2006, ODA in the area where the construction of a 3.05 square kilometers of the Olympic Park, focused on the Olympic Stadium ("the London bowl"), water sports center, basketball, Velodrome, Hockey Hall of seven venues, large-scale The Olympic Village is also located here.Among them, the cost of 42 million pounds of basketball on January 9 completed, the Olympic Park to become the first four deliveries of the venues. It is understood that the stadium can accommodate 12,000 spectators, will be held after the Olympic Games Paralympic wheelchair rugby.
In addition to new venues outside London will be on the existing 13 venues for expansion. Among them, England's home, has a long history of Wembley Stadium will be the Olympic football stadium. As Wimbledon venue, the All England Lawn Tennis Club will host the Olympic tennis competition. According to British media reports, both venues are close to finishing the renovation and expansion, is expected to be completed in October this year.
In the interview with this reporter, the CEO of LOCOG said Paul Dayton, Olympic venue construction has entered the final stage, the next stage of the main task is to test the game. Cooper also confirmed that, starting from the 27th, ODA will have basketball and the Velodrome for hardware debugging. From August 16 to 21, the Olympic basketball tournament will be the first test. Will be invited to China, Australia, Croatia, France, Serbia, this combat team. Other items in the test events will start later.
As the gateway to the Olympic Park, Stratford station has also recently completed. Reporter visited the station, located south of the Olympic Park, through the bridge directly stadium. The station is an integrated transport hub, brings together a total of two subway, a light rail and a national railway. The station can be easily reached through the center of London Oxford Circus, Liverpool Street Station, and south of Greenwich.
It is understood that the UK has invested £ 6.5 billion to improve the traffic environment during the Olympics, "the London Olympics will be a catalyst to improve the UK transport hardware. This conversion will ensure that the Olympic Games - the world's largest sporting event with a safe, efficient transportation the environment. "British Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said.
