You’ll never walk alone…

To quote the legendary motto of Liverpool FC ”You’ll never walk alone…”

- 21000 accredited media communicating the Games to a potential worldwide audience of 4 billion people

- 52000 sq m of IBC studio space over two floors up to 10 metres high, plus a further
8,000 sq m of offices over five floors at the front of the building. 5 jumbo jets could fit
wing-to-wing inside the space.

- 29000 sq m of MPC (Main Press Center, Stratford) office space over four storeys. Catering village will serve 50,000 meals over 24 hours a day; and a 200 metre-long High Street of shops and service.

 

123 – let´s go…

Today it´s 123 days until the opening ceremony starts at the Olympic Stadium in London.

It´s still a bit hard to grip that a freelance journalist/photographer has been granted access together with so many bigshots…

Back to London

The third most succesful olympic games for the Swedish Olympic team were the last time in London 1948. The team won 46 medals of which 17 were gold. The best olympic games were those exactly 100 years ago – in Stockholm.

Stockholm 1912: 63 st (23 guld)
Antwerpen 1920: 61 st (17 guld)
London 1948: 46 st (17 guld)
Helsingfors 1952: 35 st (12 guld)
Paris 1924: 29 st (4 guld)
Amsterdam 1928: 25 st (7 guld)
Los Angeles 1932: 24 st (10 guld)
London 1908: 22 st (7 guld)
Berlin 1936: 21 st (6 guld)
Melbourne/Stockholm 1956: 19 st (8 guld)