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Part of a series on 2012 Summer Olympics Bid process (bid details, legacy) Development (venues, torch relay, security) Marketing (mascots) Broadcasters Opening ceremony (flag bearers) Event calendar Chronological summary Medal table (medallists) World and Olympic records Concerns and controversies (minute of silence) Closing ceremony (flag bearers) Paralympics (medal table) IOC BOA LOCOG
Pages in category "Events at the 2012 Summer Olympics" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A study from Oxford University found that the sports-related costs of London 2012 amounted to US$15 billion, compared with $4.6 billion for Rio 2016, $40–44 billion for Beijing 2008, and $51 billion for Sochi 2014 (the most expensive Olympics in history). London 2012 went over budget by 76% in real terms, measured from bid to completion.
2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron; Chariots of Fire (play) Chronological summary of the 2012 Summer Olympics; Clays Lane Estate; 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony; 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony flag bearers; Concerns and controversies at the 2012 Summer Olympics; Christopher D. Cook
NBC televised its first Olympic Games in 1964, when it broadcast that year's Summer Olympics from Tokyo.NBC originally had intended to film the events from Tokyo but the Syncom team had a 1-hour test on the Syncom 3 satellite and it was discovered that it can transmit up to two hours from the United States to Japan as with signals from the West Coast.
The History Channel has expanded its partnership with the SpringHill Company, the production company founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, by ordering three new documentary projects. The ...
The 2012 ceremony was the second time the Queen had opened an Olympic Games, the first being the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in her capacity as Queen of Canada. It was also the first time any individual had opened a Summer Olympics twice (two more Olympiads had been opened on her behalf, with a further two Winter Games opened on her behalf).
A veteran of 13 Olympics (and counting), Al believes this year’s Games will be one for the history books. “It’s kind of the same feeling when we did the Olympics in Athens.