For a three week period, the free exhibition will be staffed by volunteers from across the London 2012 project and will include a model of the Olympic Park and models of venues such as the Olympic Stadium and Velodrome.

ODA’s Chairman John Armitt said: 'We have had over 40,000 visitors to the Olympic Park construction site to see the progress we are making, but this exhibition will give people a chance to see what their Olympic Park will look like when we have finished the "big build".'

Some of the first visitors to the exhibition were Mayor of London Boris Johnson, and the ODA’s 'Construction Crew - representatives from local schools around the Olympic Park who act as the project’s ambassadors.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: 'This exhibition is a great opportunity for Londoners and tourists to see the fantastic progress being made on the Olympic Park. It shows how our plans for 2012 are shaping up and how the Park will look when the greatest show on earth opens in under three years time.'

The ODA’s first certified Olympic Park tour guides will also officially graduate this week and be awarded their certificates by Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell at the exhibition. A group of local people from the Host Boroughs were trained and passed an exam to become Olympic Park Tour Guides with a Level 2 Qualification from the Institute of Tourist Guiding.

Des Blake from Newham who graduated as an Olympic Park Tour Guide said: 'Although the course was very challenging in many different ways it showed me that, with the appropriate support, I can achieve my goals. I have always had a dream since a boy to represent the UK in the Olympics, or to be involved in one, I feel by doing this work I have gone a long way in achieving this!'

Notes to Editors:

Pictures of the exhibition and the Mayor meeting the Construction Crew can be viewed here: http://mm.gettyimages.com/mm/nicePath/locog?nav=pr129478650

The free exhibition will run from Monday 19th October until Friday 6th November and will be staffed on weekdays from 10am-6pm.

More information on the ODA’s Construction Crew can be read on the London 2012 website: http://www.london2012.com/news/archive/2009-09/award-winning-olympic-park-programme-starts-second-year.php
 
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