ExCeL London

The Exhibition Centre London, shortly ExCeL is an account opened in November 2000 Exhibition Centre in the Royal Docks, part of the Docklands to the east of London. The name is made up of Exhibition Centre and London.

The ExCeL center is over 400,000 square meters and is located on the northern quay of the Royal Victoria Dock. Although the docks were closed in 1981 for commercial shipping, but they are still accessible by ship. This is especially useful when the London Boat Show, the largest boat show in Britain. The exhibition hall itself consists of two 32,500 square meter halls. These can be further divided into smaller units. Accessible ExCeL is connected to the Docklands Light Railway ( Custom House ). London City Airport is located about half a kilometer to the east on the other side of the dock.

For the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics 2012 the ExCeL was divided into four sports halls with a capacity of 6000-10000 spectators. Here have during the Olympic Games competitions in boxing, judo, taekwondo, table tennis, fencing, weightlifting and wrestling took place as well as at the Paralympics competitions in wheelchair fencing, table tennis, judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball and bocce.