The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) will carry out a full scale test of the Olympic Park from 2\u20138 May as it delivers six final sporting test events as part of the London Prepares series.<\/p>\n
During the first comprehensive operational test of the Olympic Park, testing will focus on security processes, ticketing operations, mobility services and logistics, along with venue and sport-specific testing.\n<\/p>\n
Around 11,000 workforce, including Games Makers, will be in operation as LOCOG deliver six major sports events in five venues over seven days.<\/p>\n
Over 140,000 spectators will watch 3,000 athletes take part in Hockey, Wheelchair Tennis, Water Polo, Athletics, Boccia and Paralympic Athletics.<\/p>\n
The Riverbank Arena, Eton Manor and the Water Polo Arena will host their first sporting competitions; the Visa International Invitational Hockey Tournament, Eton Manor Wheelchair Tennis International and Visa Water Polo International, where athletes will to help test the field of play, equipment, results, scoring and timing systems and workforce training.<\/p>\n
The Olympic Stadium will host the BUCS Visa Outdoor Athletics Championships and the Visa London Disability Grand Prix, supported by UK Sport, as well over 40,000 spectators on the evening of Saturday 5 May for\u00a0the \u20182012 Hours to Go\u2019 event which will see the Stadium officially opened by a member of the audience.<\/p>\n
Seb Coe, LOCOG Chair said: \u2018We are now in the final stages of the testing programme. Testing the Olympic Park and its operations is a hugely important part of our plans.<\/p>\n
\u2018Over the last ten months, over 250,000 spectators have watched world-class sport as part of the ‘London Prepares series’ test event programme, and, in doing so, every one of them is helping us deliver the best possible Games this summer.\u2019<\/p>\n
Courtsey- London2012.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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During the first comprehensive operational test of the Olympic Park, testing will focus on security processes, ticketing operations, mobility services and logistics, along with venue and sport-specific testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-olympics"],"yoast_head":"\n