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9 Amazing Facts You Never Knew About The London 2012 Games!

1  There will be 7.7 million Olympic 2012 tickets available.
2  The height of the Olympic stadium is 53 metres, which is 3 metres taller than Nelson’s Column.
3  A large number of newts have been relocated from the Olympic park to the Waterworks nature reserve.
4  There are 205 different nations competing in the 2012 Olympic games.
5  The total length of the power lines is the distance from London to Nottingham which is 200km long.
6  160,000 litres of milk are expected to be consumed at the London 2012 Games.
7   8.35km is the total length of the waterways within or close to the Olympic Park, much of which is being restored – the equivalent of 167 lengths of a 50m swimming pool.
8  90% – Proportion of material reclaimed from demolition within the Olympic Park which can be reused and recycled.
9   800,000 people are expected to use public transport to travel to the games on the busiest day – more than the entire population of Leeds.

By Connor Bettis, Sam Falco, Jake Fretton

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One Response to “9 Amazing Facts You Never Knew About The London 2012 Games!”

  1. JAKE FRETTON #

    IT WAS WELL GOOD 2 DO BUT I DONT LIKE MY NAME ON THE WEB

    June 17, 2009 at 5:34 pm

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