Roll up… roll up… Vote. Vote. Vote! Now is your chance directly to influence the design of a patch of the Olympic Park.
For the last six months I have been working with the Royal Horticultural Society and the office of the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell to run a competition to design a Great British Garden within the Olympic Park.
Artist's impression of part of the Olympic Park during the Games:
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Dawn, London 2012 Trailblazer volunteer, 30 September 2009
Yesterday a small group of Trailblazers at London 2012 had the privilege to meet a fellow pre-Games volunteer from the Sydney Games, former Pioneer Rosemary. She stopped over to visit us at the London Organising Committee (LOCOG) en route to the IOC Congress in Copenhagen, where she will discover whether the part she has played in the Rio de Janeiro bid to host the 2016 Games has been successful. Such is the journey that she has been on since her first taste of the Olympics in Melbourne in 1956.
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0 Comments on this postSo why is that so important to our success in 2012?
In recent presentations colleagues have asked me why I keep referring to our London main Village as a ‘City Village’ and why that makes it so special. So I thought it might be useful to produce this insight into this world of residential classification. I cannot claim credit for it. In 1996 I shared a platform with a social scientist called Munoz at a symposium on Villages organised by the IOC at the Olympic Museum – it was Munoz who made the initial proposition of how Villages might be defined...
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0 Comments on this postThe Olympic Delivery Authority’s (ODA) ‘Construction Crew’ project is once again giving local schoolchildren the chance to be a part of London 2012.
The project offers pupils the opportunity to see progress being made at the Olympic Park first-hand, and take part in workshops to promote leadership, responsibility and presentation skills. So meet our second construction crew as they are introduced to the Olympic Park.
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Terry, London 2012 Legal team, 29 September 2009
Another example last Friday of the focus on the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) and the London 2012 Games as an opportunity to raise the bar. Chairing a panel at the Mayor's Disability Capital Conference, where LOCOG participated in two panels on accessibility, I found the level of interest and expectation voiced by the audience to be high.
This was not the kind of conference where the audience drifted off to sleep or was shy about asking questions - quite the opposite!
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1 Comments on this postI was part of a group of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that visited London on Friday for the inaugural LOCOG NOC Open Day. The group consisted of delegates from all five continents – from Ireland to Kazakhstan, Brazil to Zambia.
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2 Comments on this postDay two of COUNT ME IN, an annual celebration of music, dance and culture across the region inspired by London 2012, begins with an interview with BBC Radio Wiltshire and the opportunity to promote Urban Arena @ the Big Screen, run by the education team of Swindon Dance. It's a heady mix of break dance, hip hop and film involving 70 young performers from Swindon and the South West performed around the big screen in the city centre.
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0 Comments on this postDay two of COUNT ME IN, an annual celebration of music, dance and culture across the region inspired by London 2012, begins with an interview with BBC Radio Wiltshire and the opportunity to promote Urban Arena @ the Big Screen, run by the education team of Swindon Dance. It’s a heady mix of break dance, hip hop and film involving 70 young performers from Swindon and the south west performed around the big screen in the city centre.
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Richard, Creative Programmer, South West, 26 September 2009
The sun shone on the South West today and the first day of COUNT ME IN, an annual celebration of music, dance and culture across the region inspired by London 2012.
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Hannah, London 2012 School Leaver programme, 25 September 2009
Yesterday I went to a Young Ambassador conference at the Oval and had a fab day. It was really inspiring being with a group of young people who are doing so much towards the Games.
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Supporter to Reporter (S2R) is an amazing project that I am involved in. I first got involved through Aim Higher, which encourages young people to continue on to further education. The project is a scheme to get young people involved in the world of media, with is inspired by the London 2012 Olympics.
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Bill, Director of Ceremonies, Education and Live Sites, 23 September 2009
Like most of the best ideas, the one that Reiss Evans came up with was simple. Reiss is the 18-year-old designer of the new London 2012 Education Logo, and I met him yesterday at Canterbury College in Kent. It was the moment of celebration for Reiss’s achievement and the award of the new mark to his college, the first one in the UK to join the new 'Get Set Network'.
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1 Comments on this postTom, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Manager, 2012 Games, 21 September 2009
Yesterday, as part of the Open House London 2009 weekend, I took the opportunity to propose to my girlfriend in the Olympic Park. With the Olympic Stadium as a backdrop, I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me, thankfully she said yes!
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0 Comments on this postIt was very good of Gordon Brown to throw a birthday party for me at Number 10. Well...I suspect he had bigger priorities, but it was great to meet two other people who also shared my birthday at the recent Number 10 reception for Talent and Enterprise.
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2 Comments on this postThis weekend the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is opening up the Olympic Park to the public as part of Open House London.
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David, LOCOG Diversity and Inclusion team, 18 September 2009
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Watch this video to see the latest progress on the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) as construction on the steel frame is completed.
View the video archive to see all of London 2012's videos!
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0 Comments on this postI spent this morning with representatives of London's communities, hearing their ideas about how our ticketing plan could meet their communities' aspirations for London 2012.
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