London 2012 – answers to exercise 2

1 64 years (the first time since 1948).
2 To bring the prime minister up to speed (with the progress made since meeting in Singapore).
3 To have won the bid (which he describes as monumental), and also the amount of work that has been done since Britain won the bid.
4 He describes the Games as a ‘hugely energising and motivating thing for the country’.
5 They will be able to move 250,000 people an hour in and out of the station.
6 To make them ‘as environmentally sustainable as possible’ and to reduce carbon emissions by at least 50% in comparison with former such events when building the park.
7 There are new building regulations, as building regulations have changed, (so many improvements will be automatic).
8 He says Sydney ‘raised the bar‘ as far as environmental matters were concerned.
9 Yes – but it aims to improve on it – Seb Coe says they aim to ‘raise the bar again’.
10 In 2000
11 To the village, which in terms of design will not be wasteful environmentally.
12 Nurses, doctors, and young professionals
13 a) The Olympic Village will be built to the very highest standards of construction (‘never witnessed before’) in terms of accessibility – ie for people with disabilities; and they will also be b) ‘The Greenest Games ever’ ie will create as little environmental damage as possible before and after the Games.
14 No, Seb Coe mentions that the first feasibility work done in 1997 didn’t cover environmental issues, but they have had a lot of correspondence from the public about this (‘letters in our postbag’) and that they are now very much at the forefront of their planning.
15 New facilities and houses, the fact that thousands of people will have been employed in construction, and that there will be further building work carried out (construction work) after the Games.
16 10,000
17 4,500 Paralympians
18 They will expect the rivers to be clean, and greenfield sites.
19 As the largest urban park created in Europe in the last 200 years and as a complex project.
20 It will be reduced to seat 20,000 at track and field events.
21 The Village will be a community base that local communities can use, for instance as a centre of excellence for school sport, and other sports will be able to use the facility at the same time.
22 He says he doesn’t want to leave local communities ‘barely able to press their noses up against facilities’ – he is depicting people looking on and at facilities which they cannot access, that are for others to benefit from.
23 To illustrate the fact that it is not just a London games, but also for the whole country, a ‘UK-wide project’.
24 Eight minutes in the closing ceremony.

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