The London Legacy Development Corporation, who have the job of turning the Olympic Park into a public park post-games, have released a tantalising artist’s impression of the Olympic Park as it might look in Spring 2014, when much of it will have opened to the public as a public park. Here’s a recent view, taken […]
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Olympic Bling – Pin Trading at London 2012
The medals aren’t the only shiny things at London 2012. Pin trading is a long Olympic tradition, and while, for the first week, I was mildly curious about the lanyards of some of my fellow volunteers being adored with various badges, a couple of donations meant that I was hooked by the middle weekend of […]
Olympic Park T Minus 5
Here are some photos from the Olympic Park, on a sunny Sunday with just five days to go until the opening ceremony. If the sun stays around, it will be a lovely park to wander around in. The park is looking lovely: Some mysterious art here: Each set of recycling bins, throughout the park, include […]
Olympic Park coming Together
Final preparations are being made in the Olympic Park – barriers and diggers are moving away: …the flowers are coming to full bloom (no doubt helped by the excessive rain over the last few days): …the temporary sponsor pavilions, entrance gates, signposts and watchtowers are springing up (this is the fantastic looking Coca-Cola Pavilion by […]
Inside the Olympic Park
Here’s some new photos from the Olympic Park in east London. The main changes recently are: It’s the first time the Park feels like a park and not a building site! A more obvious entrance to the park is being created – Stratford Gate – consisting of a pair of large triangular gantries that people […]
New Olympic Park Map
Here’s an updated Olympic Park Map, an extract of which is above. This one is notable as it includes names for many of the bridges in the park. From north to south: Eton Manor Bridge Red Bridge Waterfall Bridge London Way Bridge Channelsea Crossing Halfway Bridge Spotty Bridge Water Polo Bridge Stratford Walk Aquatics Bridge […]
Stratford City Race
Yesterday was the Stratford City orienteering race, organised and planned by Josh Jenner, with the map done by myself. The map was a real fiddle to do, requiring four site visits and many hours in front of the computer to build up the six mapped levels (the top half of the is shown above) but […]
Five Level Orienteering – Stratford City Race
If you thought the Barbican’s three levels were tricky to orienteer through, then you haven’t seen anything yet – there will a race taking place in and around the Westfield Stratford City retail complex in east London, on Sunday 15 April. The race will be over five levels of the indoor shopping centre area, plus […]
Games Maker
Yay! I finally heard today that I have been accepted as a volunteer for the Olympic Games in London this summer. It won’t be a particularly glamorous role – I’m not going to be the guy that hands Usain Bolt his towel on the finish line – but I should be within the Olympic Park […]
Olympic Velodrome Test Event
I was at the Velodrome in the Olympic Park yesterday, for the opening evening of the UCI Track World Cup London stage, which was also a London Prepares test event for the forthcoming Olympics. As such, it was the first opportunity to get into the Velodrome to watch an competitive event. The only races taking […]