Did you know…? Facts and figures about the Olympic Park
Olympic Stadium
- The Olympic Stadium will have a capacity of 80,000 during the Games
- 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
- Part of the supporting structure of the roof is formed from 2,500 tons of steel tubing that was actually recycled from old gas pipelines
Aquatics Centre
- The steel used to build the Aquatics Centre comes from Newport in Wales
- The wave shaped roof on the Aquatics Centre measures 12,000 square metres which is one and a half times bigger than Wembley football pitch
- The amount of material that had to be excavated to build the Aquatics centre was the equivalent of 160,000 tonnes of soil
Velodrome
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- It is the size of six full size football pitches
- The biggest fork lift truck in the country was used during the erection of the steel frame.
