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London 2012 Olympics
This category contains questions about the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in London.
642 Questions
Who is the oldest football player in the Olympics 2012?
58, his name is homolulas caporamba and plays for cuba
How many people watched the 2012 Olympics?
many people it cannot be counted more and more than cannot be imagine it can be of crores or millions from a girl of form 1 residence and thanks to ♥ my ans
Are there hurdles in the Olympic Games?
No, hurdles are a track event. The event takes place on the track. Field events are those that are competed in the 'field' located within the track. Field events are long jump, high jump, javelin, discus, hammer throw, shot put, pole vault, and triple jump.
Who won the 2012 Olympic gold medal in women's soccer?
United States (USA)won the Gold medal and the following athletes won Gold Medals:
Hope Solo
Heather Mitts
Christie Rampone (captain)
Becky Sauerbrunn
Kelley O'Hara
Amy LePeilbet
Shannon Boxx
Amy Rodriguez
Heather O'Reilly
Carli Lloyd
Sydney Leroux
Lauren Cheney
Alex Morgan
Abby Wambach
Megan Rapinoe
Rachel Buehler
Tobin Heath
Nicole Barnhart
Which countries pay their Olympic athletes?
Gold medalist = $314,000
Silver medalist = $187,788
Bronze medalist = $125,213
Philippine IncentivesGold medalist = US$220,000
Azerbaijan Incentives:Gold: AZN 100,000 and NOC-AZN 50,000
Silver: AZN 50,000 and NOC AZN 30,000
Bronze: AZN 25,000 and AZN 20,000
The AZN amounts are converted to the following:AZN 100,000 = USD 123,777
AZN 50,000 = USD 61,888
AZN 25,000 = USD 30,944
I honestly don't know the difference between AZN and NOC-AZN.Russia Incentives:Gold medalist: 100,000 euros (US$150,000)
Silver medalist: 60,000 euros (US$90,000)
Bronze medalist: 40,000 euros (US$60,000)
Slovenia Incentives:Individual events:
Gold medalist: 39,350 euros (62,920 U.S. dollars)
Silver medalist: 30,400 euros (48,609 dollars)
Bronze medalist: 21,450 euros (34,298 dollars)
Team events:Gold medalists in team sports will each receive 10,000 euros (15,990 dollars) from the Slovenian Olympic Committee in addition to the one-off 96,750 euros (154,703 dollars) that the state is giving to the whole team
Malaysia Incentives[Note: These amounts may have already been increased.]
Medal incentives:
Gold = RM160,000 [US$ 49,088.96]
Silver = RM80,000 [US$ 24,544.48]
Bronze = RM40,000 [US$ 12,272.24]
Monthly pension for retired medalists:Gold medalist = RM3,500
Silver medalist = RM1,500
Bronze medalist = RM1,000
Allowance for Olympic qualifiers:Monthly allowance = RM1,000 [US$318]
United States Incentives[Note: This was for the 2004 Olympics]
Gold medalist = $25,000
Silver medalist = $15,000
Bronze medalist = $10,000
Canada Incentives [in Canadian dollars]
Gold medalist = $20,000
Silver medalist = $15,000
Bronze medalist = $10,000
Australia IncentivesQuote from an official:
"We have a medal incentive scheme which only goes down to number four and the best are getting $18,000."
Kenya IncentivesGold medalist = US$11,000
Silver medalist = US$ 7,500
Bronze medalist = US$ 3,700
Palestine IncentivesMonthly allowance: US$ 100
Argentina IncentivesOlympic qualifiers:
Sportsmen diplomas and scholarships of 4,000 pesos. [US $ 1,326]
Who won the Bronze Medal in Men's 10000 meters for athletic events at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
That would be Ben Johnson, however he failed a drug test so he lost his medal to Carl Lewis
What does the London Olympics logo mean?
Either 2 0 1 2 with a point in the middle, nobody knows why, but to me it looks someone sucking someone else off...
In any case these logos are, as usual, horrible and orwellian.
How many medals did china win 2012 Olympics?
Hong Kong has won two medals in Olympic competition, one at the 1996 Games in Atlanta and one at the 2004 Games in Athens: 1996 - Lee Lai Shan won gold in women's sailboard sailing.
2004 - Ko Lai Chak and Li Ching won silver in men's doubles table tennis.
Who invented the London 2012 Olympic games?
The writer Michael Morpurgo wrote the story concept to the mascots, and an animation was produced. Two stories have been created about the mascots: Out Of A Rainbow, the story of how Wenlock and Mandeville came to be, and Adventures On A Rainbow, which features the children from Out Of A Rainbow meeting the mascots and trying out many different Olympic and Paralympic sports.
What is the host nation choice of sport in the 2012 Olympics?
At the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, 9 new events were added. These included BMX cycling, team events for table tennis and fencing, the women's 3000 meter steeplechase run, and a 10 km open water swimming event.
Who is the oldest person in the Olympics 2012?
67-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu, a dressage rider for the Japanese equestrian team
What country won the most medals in the London 2012 Olympics?
The USA won the most medals with 104 (46 gold medals) followed by China with 88.
Where is the canoe Olympics held 2012?
Canoeing at the Olympics is broken into flatwater and slalom events using flatwater racing kayaks (men's and women's events) and sprint canoes (men's events only). One, two, and four person events are held.
Information about olympic games in London 2012?
The games are being held all over London-Earls Court, Wembleyand Greenwich are a few areas where sports will be taking place. But the olympic stadium itself is in the olympic park in Stratford, in the borough of Newham.
The 2012 Olympics 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. 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. The Olympic Zone will encompass all of the facilities within the 500 acre (2 km²) Olympic Park in Stratford. The River Zone will feature five main venues in the Thames Gateway area straddling the River Thames. The Central Zone will be formed out of all the remaining venues within Greater London. They are quite widely spread across central and West London: The sailing events for the Olympics will be held at the Weymouth and Portland international sailing academy The earlier stages of the football competition will be played at football stadia around the United Kingdom including: * Hampden Park in Glasgow * Millennium Stadium in Cardiff * Old Trafford in Manchester * St James' Park in Newcastle * Villa Park in Birmingham * National Football Stadium in Belfast
Does Antarctica compete in the Olympic games?
There is no infrastructure in Antarctica. No commercial accommodations, transportation, sports venues, hospitals and so forth.
It is a continent preserved by The Antarctic Treaty, for science.
How many sporting events are going to take place in the 2012 Olympics?
Softball and Baseball have been eliminated from the Olympic Games for 2012
What effects will the 2012 Olympics have to London's environment?
London 2012 offers great opportunities to many in British sports. But in many ways the opportunities it provides for the media are quite the most interesting and the most challenging.
The Olympics are not only the greatest sporting event in the world, they are the greatest gathering of people at any one time in a particular city. There is nothing quite like it, not even the finals of a football World Cup.
Yet for all the power and even the majesty of an Olympics, it has often seemed a passing show of not much significance for many in the British media.
One of the intriguing aspects of London 2012 is that before Britain won the Games on that historic evening in Singapore two years ago, Britain was if not disengaged from the Olympics, then more than a bit semi-detached. Birmingham had bid for the Games, Manchester had bid twice, and both cities had lost badly. The feeling was that the Olympics did not want us and we could do without them. When London bid, the feeling was: why bother? Paris seemed such a certainty.
This feeling of detachment had a media impact. Over the years leading to the Singapore magic moment, the British media had given the impression that it had grown tired of the Olympics. The Olympics were beset with all sorts of problems, including alleged corruption amongst members, and when the coverage of Olympics news in the media was not dismissive it was generally very hostile.
I remember going to Lausanne in 1999 where a conference had been called to discuss how sports and governments could tackle the menace of drugs in sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was keen to get a drug-busting agency going - the conference led to the establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency - but the governments were not keen. Tony Banks, the British sports minister, was particularly opposed. The IOC was then struggling to cope with the fallout of the Salt Lake City bidding corruption crisis and Banks made it clear that, until the IOC sorted itself out and put its house in order, there was no chance of the British government working in collaboration with the IOC.
Much has changed since then and Singapore was the culmination. Tony Blair wooed IOC members, and Seb Coe pledged that in giving London the Games they would be honouring not just the capital of a country but the world itself. For London was the world in microcosm, the most diverse society in the world, rich in the quality of its people and their commitment to sports.
Cities change when they stage the Olympics. I have seen the transformations that took place in Sydney, Athens and Salt Lake City. But the media in those cities also changes. Suddenly it has to cope with the demands of the Olympics movements, monitor what they are doing and also reflect and report on any Olympics-related events.
London will go through many changes as we get nearer to 2012. Coverage of the Olympics and Paralympics will become more prominent. If other Olympic cites are any guide, the media will be seized with Olympic fever. How it copes with this fever will tell us a lot about the British media.
When did the construction of the 2012 Olympic Stadium begin?
Located in the Olympic Green, the US$423 million stadium is the world's largest steel structure. The design was awarded to a submission from the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron in April 2003, after a bidding process that included 13 final submissions. The design, which originated from the study of Chinese ceramics, implemented steel beams in order to hide supports for the retractable roof; giving the stadium the appearance of a "Bird's nest". Ai Weiwei, the artistic consultant, played a critical role in pushing the design to have unique Chinese characteristics. Ironically, the retractable roof was later removed from the design after inspiring the stadium's most recognizable aspect. Ground was broken in December 2003 and the stadium officially opened in June 2008.
Which city host 2012 Olympics?
In 2008, Beijing, China hosted the Olympics. London is scheduled to host the 2012 Olympics.
Is Michael Phelps swimming in 2012 Olympics?
His father attended the Athens Olympics, but is watching Beijing from his home in Baltimore, Maryland.
What country has won the most olympic medals?
The United States of America has far more Olympic medals than any other nation.
After the 2014 Winter Olympics, here are the countries with the most gold medals:
1. USA: 1072
2. Soviet Union: 473
3. Germany: 252
4. Great Britain: 246
5. Italy: 235
6. France: 233
7. China: 213
8. Sweden: 193
9. East Germany: 192
10. Russia: 182
