Exercise 1. Find the site www.olympic.org. Follow the links ‘Olympic Games’ → ‘London...

Question

Exercise 1. Find the site www.olympic.org. Follow the links ‘Olympic Games’ →
‘London 2012’ → ‘All About The Games’ → ‘All Facts’ and answer the following
questions.
1. How big was the Olympic park?
2. How many accredited media were involved?
3. How many athletes took part?
4. How many countries participated?
5. How many meals were served?
6. How many medal events were held?
7. How many pieces of sport equipment were sourced?
8. How many spectator journeys were made?
9. How many sports were contested?
10. How many team officials worked?
11. How many tickets were available?
12. How many volunteers were enlisted?

Answer 1

1. The Olympic park was 2.5sq km in size - equivalent to 357 football pitches.
2. Over 21 000 accredited media communicated the Games
3. About 10 500 athletes took a part in the Games
4. 204 countries participated
5. 14 million meals were served at the Games
6. 302 medal events being held 
7. LOGOG had sourced over one million pieces of sport eqipment 
8. 20 million spectator journeys were made in London
9. 26 sports, featuring 39 disciplines were contested during the Games
10. There were 5770 team officials worked
11. 8.8 villion tickets were available 
12. 70 000 vollunteers were involved