The 2012 Olympic Games are to be held in London. Events will be happening in a number of different stadiums. The athletic events, such as the 100m sprint, will take place in the brand new Olympic Stadium.
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Other events, such as swimming, basketball and other sports that cannot take place in the Olympic stadium, will be happening elsewhere. For example, the much anticipated football tournament will be happening all around the country in the following stadiums:
- Ricoh Arena, Coventry
- Hampden Park, Glasgow
- Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
- Old Trafford, Manchester
- St James' Park, Newcastle
- Wembley, London
The sportswear for the British athletes was designed by famous designer, Stella McCartney.
The mascots for the 2012 Olympics are called Wenlock and Mandeville. They are cartoons depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton. They are named Wenlock, after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Mandeville, after Stoke Mandeville, a village in Buckinghamshire where a forerunner to the Paralympic Games were first held. The writer Michael Morpurgo wrote a story about the mascots and there will be an ongoing series concerning the mascots in the run-up to the Games in 2012. Two stories have been created about the mascots: Out Of A Rainbow, the story of how Wenlock and Mandeville came to be, and Adventures On A Rainbow, which features the children from Out Of A Rainbow meeting the mascots and trying out many different Olympic and Paralympic sports.
The mascots for the 2012 Olympics are called Wenlock and Mandeville. They are cartoons depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton. They are named Wenlock, after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Mandeville, after Stoke Mandeville, a village in Buckinghamshire where a forerunner to the Paralympic Games were first held. The writer Michael Morpurgo wrote a story about the mascots and there will be an ongoing series concerning the mascots in the run-up to the Games in 2012. Two stories have been created about the mascots: Out Of A Rainbow, the story of how Wenlock and Mandeville came to be, and Adventures On A Rainbow, which features the children from Out Of A Rainbow meeting the mascots and trying out many different Olympic and Paralympic sports.
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