In the summer of 2012, the English capital will host an important sporting event - the Olympic Games. Thousands of athletes will gather in one place, where they will show their skills in 32 sports.
The thirtieth Summer Olympic Games will be held in London from July 27 to August 12 this year. Moreover, the capital of England will become the first city in which this event will take place for the third time. Prior to that, the Olympic Games were held there in 1908 and 1948. Sailing and rowing competitions will take place outside London - on the south coast of England.
The Olympics will be opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, together with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. The emblem of the games will be the numbers of the year of the Olympiad, depicted as irregular polyhedra, and the symbol will be two drops of steel, which were named Venlock and Mandeville after the names of English towns.
It is believed that the 2012 Olympic Games will be the largest pilgrimage on the planet. This is not surprising, since athletes from 100 countries of the world will come to the capital of England. Only Russia will be represented by about 450 people, the final names of which will be known only by mid-July. More than 1000 Russian athletes from 63 regions of the country are currently in centralized preparation for the Olympics.
It is already known that Tyumen athletes Yulia Efimova and Arkady Vyatchanin will represent Russia in swimming, Marta Labazina from Nizhny Novgorod in judo, but there will be only 7 boxers, which for the first time will not allow Russia to be represented in all 10 weight categories.
To date, the schedule of the Olympic Games has already been determined, which can be found on the official website of the Olympics. The results of the competitions, medals and other important data will also be posted there. The games will begin with football matches among women, and on July 28, the first round of the men's and women's tennis tournament starts, the final of which will take place only on August 4-5. On the same day, the women's rowing, swimming and 100m finals will be held. The closing ceremony of the 30 Summer Olympic Games will take place at one of the stadiums on 12 August.
