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Today's facts are about the just concluded london 2012 olympics

10. Girl Power: The 2012 Olympics will have 2 significant milestones
for female athletes. It's the first Olympics where every country has
at least 1 female athlete. Also, Female Boxing was included this year,
which means that every sport in the games will have male and female
competitors.

9. The opening ceremony is based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
The organizers have named the ceremony "Isles of Wonder" and it is
taken from a speech given by Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Academy award winner Danny Boyle will serve as the artistic director.
Over 20,000 volunteers are working on it!

8. The London Olympic stadium is the lightest stadium ever built. Not
just that, but they also used 2,500 tons of steel tubing that was
recycled from old gas pipelines. That's a pretty green stadium!

7. There's going to be over 20,000 members of the media covering the
event. The International Broadcast Centre that will house them during
the games is huge: the size of six full size football pitches.

6. More than half the world will be watching. The organizers of the
game estimate that about 4 billion people will tune in to watch the
games.

5. London will be the first city to host the Olympics for a third
time. They hosted the Olympics in 1908 and 1948. Although this
distinction is only a technicality. Athens has also hosted 3 Olympic
games, but one of them, the 1902 Athens Intercalated Olympic Games
weren't counted as an official Olympic event.

4. The Olympics will leave London with its largest piece of public
art. The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 377-foot observation tower that was
built in the Olympic park and is supposed to be a permanent fixture of
London, long after the Olympics are gone. The design so far seems to
be polarized, some have said it's striking and daring and Olympian in
its ambition. Others say it looks like a roller coaster collapsing
onto itself.

3. The games might include a Spice Girls reunion. The Olympic games
will officially end on August 12. It's traditional that the mayor of
the host city hands over the games to the mayor of the next host city
(in this case, Rio de Janeiro). It's heavily rumored that the closing
ceremony will feature the first Spice Girls reunion since 2008.

2. Even though Adidas is the official apparel sponsor, Nike features
prominently in the games! Not Nike the brand, but rather the Goddess
of Sport. She's going to be engraved in front of every medal given out
during the games. Ironically, Nike just came out with an ad poking fun
at the Olympics. Watch it here.

1. The games cost almost $15 BILLION. The final estimated cost for the
Olympic games was increased from £2.4 billion to £9.3 billion. That's
3.8x the cost! The reason for this was because London had to invest
heavily in the Olympic venues and other infrastructure expenses. In
fact, the Contingency Fund, for any unexpected expenses, was set at
£2.7 billion. That means that the unexpected costs ended up  being
costlier than they originally expected the whole thing  to be!


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