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Location Information:
The
Summer Olympics and Paralympics
venues are mostly located in the
host city of London, though some
other events require facilities
located elsewhere. Since the
successful bid for the Summer
Olympics and Summer
Paralympics, some details have
changed, with ongoing developments
and announcements taking place.
The
Games will use a mixture of
newly built venues, existing
facilities, and temporary
facilities, some of them in well
known locations such as Hyde Park
and Horse Guards Parade. In the wake
of the problems that plagued the
Millennium Dome, the intention is
that there will be no white
elephants after the games. Some of
the new facilities will be reused in
their Olympic form, while others
will be reduced in size and several
will be relocated elsewhere in the
UK. The plans will contribute to the
regeneration of Stratford in east
London which will be the site of the
Olympic Park, and of the
neighbouring Lower Lea Valley.
The
Olympic village will have 17,320
beds and provide each athlete with
16mē floor space.
There will be 3,300 apartments
Each apartment will have a TV,
internet access, and a private
courtyard.
The dining hall will cater for 5,500
athletes at a time.
Difficulties experienced by
developers Lend Lease in raising
funds for the village (the single
largest project in the scheme)
resulted in the scale of the village
being reduced by "almost 25%". This
was achieved predominantly by
providing accommodation for
London-based athletes only. Those
competing in events outside London
were to be housed elsewhere.
Following the athletes' experiences
in Beijing 2008 (and in particular
through comments concerning
athletes' welfare by International
Olympic Committee President Jacques
Rogge) this compromise was to be
reconsidered whilst pressure built
for the finance deal to be resolved
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