Olympic Stadium (London)
- Olympic Games 2012
- 2012 Paralympics
- Aviva London Grand Prix 2013
- World Athletics Championships 2017
- IAAF World Championships of Disabled Persons 2017
The Olympic Stadium (English Olympic Stadium ) in London is the venue for the athletics competitions as well as for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in 2012. Arose in the years 2008 to 2011 at the new Olympic Park at the Marsh Gate Lane in Stratford district next the River Lea and will also be the venue for the world Athletics Championships in 2017 and the IAAF World Championships of Disabled Persons 2017. The stadium holds 80,000 spectators and is therefore - behind the Wembley and Twickenham Stadium - temporarily the third largest stadium in the country and the city.
Project and construction
The stadium design was launched on 7 November 2007. According to the organizing committee LOCOG it should offer 80,000 seats and be the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies and the athletics competitions. After completion of the games it should be converted according to the original plans in a pure athletics stadium with 25,000 seats and a sports medical center.
Construction began in May 2008. On 29 March 2011 the construction of the Olympic Stadium with the laying of the last piece of turf by the former sprinter Frankie Fredericks and middle distance runners Sebastian Coe has been completed. The plastic sheet for the athletics competitions will be moved later in the year, they would have been otherwise damaged in the work of machines. Overall, the construction of the stadium cost 486 million pounds. By June 2009, the athletics track was carved out of the soft dirt floor, surrounded by a " bowl " made of concrete with 25,000 permanent seats. Next, the structure of the temporary and removable again ranges from lightweight steel and concrete, where are the other 55,000 seats began. In addition to the roof also consists of 336 individual panels facade of the stadium from ultra-light polymer is made. The track has nine tracks, of which but used in most competitions only eight.
On 5 May 2012, the stadium was inaugurated in front of about 40,000 spectators, four years after the start of construction and 2012 hours before the start of the Olympic Games. During the multi- hour event, the organization's president Sebastian Coe and the nine -year-old Niamh Clarke - Willis, who lives near the Olympic Park expressed, on the knob and hundreds of white balloons to rise.
The U.S. chemical company Dow Chemical recruited until 26 June 2012, on the outer skin of the stadium, which was made of polyester and polyethylene.
Reuse
The football club West Ham United competed on September 30, 2010 and later users of the stadium. He wants to reduce the stadium from 80,000 to 60,000 seats. However, the track and field facility should be preserved because of the World Athletics Championships in 2017. The association is looking for a new venue because a residential area and shopping center to be built on the site of the current Boleyn Ground stadium. Even the Tottenham Hotspur showed interest in the Olympic Stadium. The final decision of LOCOG was scheduled for 11 April 2011, but a day earlier transpired that West Ham United have been awarded the contract.
On 11 October 2011, the Olympic Park Legacy Company ( OPLC ) said the deal with West Ham United but failed to, so the stadium passed into the public domain after the Olympics. Previously, it was revealed that Tottenham Hotspur had brought an action under the encouragement to West Ham United, was accused in corruption.
In December 2011, the re-use has been re-tendered. Since then, 16 interested parties have reported to the competent Olympic Park Society OPLC. Among the interested parties is also again West Ham United. Tottenham Hotspur, however, no longer seems to be interested, it promoted its own new stadium plans. The official application process began on 23 March 2012., Four out of the 16 people came to the final round. In addition to West Ham United, Leyton Orient and the UCFB College of Football Business, a school for football management, is also the integration of the stadium in a Formula 1 race in London in conversation. In 2014, the Olympic Stadium will be passed to the subsequent user.
On March 22, 2013 West Ham United announced that the Olympic Stadium from the season 2016/17 will be the new venue for the club.
As announced on January 24, 2013, the London Diamont League meeting Aviva London Grand Prix 2013 will be held in the Olympic Stadium. The reason for the relocation of the meetings of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in the Olympic Stadium, the one-year anniversary of the Olympic Games was led in London. Subsequently to be aligned on 28 July, a paralympic competition.
Rebuilding
Mid- August 2013 began the renovation work in terms of the Rugby Union World Cup 2015, including, among others, the roof is replaced by a larger.