{"id":237,"date":"2009-07-31T18:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-07-31T18:05:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:05:57","slug":"2012-olympics-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/31\/2012-olympics-update\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Olympics Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now then, in less than three years time, London<\/a> will begin its hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games<\/a>. It might be a little bit rubbish compared to the well prepared and astonishingly brilliant Chinese games of last year, but let’s face it; it’s the only chance in my lifetime that such an important worldwide event will happen in this country. We may be chosen to host the Football World Cup<\/a> in the future and we already have been chosen to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup<\/a> with come matches being played at Elland Road<\/a> which I can see from my house! However, the Olympics<\/a> is the biggest event in the sporting calendar for so many more people.<\/p>\n

The official 2012 site is an ever changing beast and I haven’t spent a massive amount of time looking at it recently. However, I had a quick glance today and came across the webcam<\/a> section. There are 18 cameras spread across the building sites and they take single images every hour. These images are stored and can be put together to create a wonderful time slip<\/a> film.<\/p>\n

My favourite is the aquatics centre<\/a> which will have a 2,800-tonne wave-shaped roof. (The Beijing<\/a> colour changing aquatics centre was one of the most beautiful sights of the last Olympics, however…)<\/p>\n

Take a look. Things are quietly coming together.<\/p>\n

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Now then, in less than three years time, London will begin its hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games. It might be a little bit rubbish compared to the well prepared and astonishingly brilliant Chinese games of last year, but let’s face it; it’s the only chance in my lifetime that such an important worldwide event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,29,32],"tags":[90,103,105,141,406,1647,1819,2226,2228,2837],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-linkage","category-sport","category-videos","tag-90","tag-2012-olympic-games","tag-2012-summer-olympics","tag-2015-rugby-world-cup","tag-beijing","tag-july","tag-london","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-sport","post_format-post-format-video","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-3P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}