1. Olympic games
2012
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the
Games of the XXX Olympiad or "London 2012 Olympic
Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England,
United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012. London will
become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic
Games three times,having previously done so in 1908 and in
1948.
The Olympics prompted a redevelopment of many of the
areas of London in which the games are to be held –
particularly themed towards sustainability.
While the budgetary considerations have generated some
criticism, the Games will make use of many venues which
were already in place before the bid, including Wembley
Stadium, Wembley Arena, Wimbledon All England Club,
Lord's Cricket Ground, The O2 Arena, Earls Court Exhibition
Centre, Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy,
and the Excel Centre. By the bid submission deadline of 15
July 2003, nine cities had submitted bids to host the 2012
Olympics.

2. Venues
• The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will use a
mixture of new venues, existing and historic facilities,
and temporary facilities, some of them in well-known
locations such as Hyde Park and Horse Guards Parade.
Some of the new facilities will be reused in their
Olympic form, while others, will be resized or
relocated.
The majority of venues have been divided into three zones
within Greater London: the Olympic Zone, the River Zone
and the Central Zone. In addition to these are those venues
that, by necessity, are outside the boundaries of Greater
London, such as the Weymouth and Portland National
Sailing Academy on the Isle of Portland in Dorset which will
host the sailing events, some 125 miles (200 km) southwest
of the Olympic Park. The football tournament will be staged
at several grounds around the UK. Work began on the Park
in December 2006 when a sports hall in Eton Manor was
pulled down.The athletes' village in Portland was completed
in September 2011.

3. These cities were
Havana, Istanbul,Leipzig, London, Madrid, Moscow, N
ew York City, Paris and Rio de Janeiro.
On 18 May 2004, the International Olympic
Committee (IOC), as a result of a scored technical
evaluation, reduced the number of cities to five:
London, Madrid, Moscow, New York, and Paris.
• By 19 November 2004, all five candidate cities had
submitted their candidate file to the International
Olympic Committee.On 6 June 2005, the International
Olympic Committee released its evaluation reports for
the five candidate cities. Although these reports did
not contain any scores or rankings, the evaluation
report for Paris was considered the most positive, now
followed closely by London which had narrowed down
most of the gap observed by the initial evaluation in
2004 regarding Paris. Also New York and Madrid
obtained very positive evaluation reports.

9. Murad Qureshi, a member of the London Assembly, is
pushing for a Twenty20 cricket showcase tournament to
be included in London. Twenty 20 cricket did originally bid
for inclusion in 2012, but was not one of the finalist
sports.Netball is being drafted as a
possible demonstration sport at the 2012 games. This idea
was backed by then British prime minister Gordon
Brown, suggesting that it would encourage more girls and
young women to play sports. The IOC eliminated
demonstration sports following the 1992 Summer
Olympics.
However, special tournaments have been run for non-
Olympic sports during the games, such as the Wushu
tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics. There has
been speculation that the London Sevens tournament
held at Twickenham as part of the IRB Sevens World
Series could be put back to coincide with the
Olympics.Following the awarding of the 2012 Olympic
Games to London, the government announced
that special dispensation would be granted to allow the
various shooting events to go ahead, as had been the
case previously for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.