London Olympic-2012

London Olympic-2012

        London Olympic 2012 started on 27th July and ended on 12th August with a glittering, multicolored show. The next Olympic will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.

                                                                    

        Indian Heroes in London Olympic

                 NAME                                 MEDAL             EVENTS

        1.      Mr. Vijay Kumar                   Silver                (Shooting 25 meter Rapid Fire)

        2.      Gagan Narang                      Bronze              (Shooting 10 meter Air Rifle)

        3.      Saina Nehwal                       Bronze              (Badminton)

        4.      MC Mary Kom                      Bronze              (51 kg Women’s Flyweight Boxing)

        5.      Yogeshwar Dutt                   Bronze              (Wrestling 60 kg Freestyle)

        6.      Sushil Kumar                       Silver                (Wrestling 66 kg Freestyle)

      The 2012 Summer Olympic games, officially the XXX, Olympiad and popularly known as London Olympics 2012, was a major international multi-sport event of the year, 2012.

        Salient features

        1.      Motto of London Olympics – ‘Inspire the Generation’

        2.      London becomes the first city to host Olympics for three times (1908, 1948, 2012)

        3.      This was the first Olympics with HDTV freeze – frame coverage

        4.      Total athletes participated                 10500

        5.      Participating nations                         204

        6.      Olympic budget                                9.3 billion pound (8 lakh crore rupees)

        7.      Indian athletes                                  81

        8.      Records made                                  25

        9.      Games played                                  26 (302 events)

        10.     Total medals                                    962

        11.     Area of Olympic park                        490 acres

        12.     Maximum medals won                      104 (USA)

       13.     Chief attraction of the Olympic village is its ORBIT. 115 m high tower in Olympic park is known as Arcelor-Mittal Orbit. It was designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond of Engineering Group. It is made up of 2000 tonnes steel and 35000 bolts costing more than 19 million pounds, 16 million pounds coming from Britain’s richest man, the steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, chairman of the Arcelor-Mittal Steel Company.

       14.     LOGO: There have been two London Olympics 2012: One for the bidding process created by ‘Kino Design’ and second as the brand for the Games designed by ‘Wolf Olins’. This was for the first time same essential Logo was used for Olympics and Paralympics Games. The logo has Olympic rings embedded, within the zero of the number 2012.

     15.     MASCOT: ‘Wenlock’ and ‘Mandeville’ are animators’ mascots for 2012 summer olympics and paralympics, depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton. Two stories have been created about the mascots by Writer Michael Morpurgo : Out of a rainbow and Adventures on a rainbow.