Are you sports lover and very excited to see the London Olympics 2012? The much-awaited sports event, London Olympics 2012 is scheduled to start on 27 July, 2012 with an opening ceremony and will end on 12 August, 2012. Third time London will host the Olympic and total 205 countries and over 17,000 athletes will participate in this major sports event. This event will include 300 events in 26 sports category that will be played at 31 venues. Badminton, athletics, gymnastics, football, taekwondo, hockey, cycling, diving, archery, swimming, weightlifting, wrestling, volleyball, and many more are included in the sports category.
The ideal expression of the Olympic slogan ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ is Athletics as athletes need to run quicker, throw further, jump higher and leap longer in comparison to their rivals to win this competition. 2012 London Olympics Athletics will take place throughout the last 10 days of the games from Friday 3 August to Sunday 12 August at the Olympic Park at the Olympic Stadium. The athletics sport is divided into four different sets of events such as track events, field events, road running events, and race walking events. Road events such as the 20km and 50km Race Walks as well as the Marathon will finish in the Mall, near Buckingham Palace in central London.
Athletics is the biggest single sport at the Games with 2,000 athletes, who will compete in 47 events like 24 track, 16 field, 2 combined and 5 road events. Men will participate in 24 events while women in 23, as the women's schedule does not include the 50 km race walk. Every nation is restricted to three athletes in every individual event and one team in each relay event means maximum six athletes, out of which four will run. The fields of play for the field events are High Jump and Pole Vault landing areas, Long Jump and Triple Jump pits, Discus Throw, Hammer Throw and Shot Put circles, and Javelin Throw runways within and around the track.
The fastest athletes/teams will start the majority of races on the track with heats and progress to semi-finals then the final. Field events begin with a qualification stage, with the best athletes, who will be qualified for the final. Athletes in the combined events participate to earn points on the basis of their performance in each of their events. So, athletes need to run faster, throw further or jump a greater distance to win, otherwise their small mistake or loss of strength or technique can result in the loss.
2012 London Olympics Athletics Schedule:
The ideal expression of the Olympic slogan ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ is Athletics as athletes need to run quicker, throw further, jump higher and leap longer in comparison to their rivals to win this competition. 2012 London Olympics Athletics will take place throughout the last 10 days of the games from Friday 3 August to Sunday 12 August at the Olympic Park at the Olympic Stadium. The athletics sport is divided into four different sets of events such as track events, field events, road running events, and race walking events. Road events such as the 20km and 50km Race Walks as well as the Marathon will finish in the Mall, near Buckingham Palace in central London.
Athletics is the biggest single sport at the Games with 2,000 athletes, who will compete in 47 events like 24 track, 16 field, 2 combined and 5 road events. Men will participate in 24 events while women in 23, as the women's schedule does not include the 50 km race walk. Every nation is restricted to three athletes in every individual event and one team in each relay event means maximum six athletes, out of which four will run. The fields of play for the field events are High Jump and Pole Vault landing areas, Long Jump and Triple Jump pits, Discus Throw, Hammer Throw and Shot Put circles, and Javelin Throw runways within and around the track.
The fastest athletes/teams will start the majority of races on the track with heats and progress to semi-finals then the final. Field events begin with a qualification stage, with the best athletes, who will be qualified for the final. Athletes in the combined events participate to earn points on the basis of their performance in each of their events. So, athletes need to run faster, throw further or jump a greater distance to win, otherwise their small mistake or loss of strength or technique can result in the loss.
2012 London Olympics Athletics Schedule:
| VENUE | DATE | SESSION TIME | M/W | SESSION DESCRIPTION | ||
| Olympic Stadium | 03 August 2012 | 10:00 - 13:45 | M | 400m Hurdles: round 1 | ||
| M | 3000m Steeplechase: round 1 | |||||
| M | Hammer: qualifying | |||||
| M | Shot Put: qualifying | |||||
| W | 100m: classification heats | |||||
| W | 400m: round 1 | |||||
| W | Triple Jump: qualifying | |||||
| W | Heptathlon: 100m hurdles, high jump | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 03 August 2012 | 19:00 - 21:55 | M | 1500m: round 1 | ||
| M | Long Jump: qualifying | |||||
| M | Shot Put: final | |||||
| W | 100m: round 1 | |||||
| W | 10,000m: final | |||||
| W | Discus: qualifying | |||||
| W | Heptathlon: shot put, 200m | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 04 August 2012 | 10:00 - 13:45 | M | 100m: classification heats, round 1 | ||
| M | 400m: round 1 | |||||
| W | 3000m Steeplechase: round 1 | |||||
| W | Pole Vault: qualifying | |||||
| W | Heptathlon: long jump, javelin | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 04 August 2012 | 18:50 - 22:05 | M | 400m Hurdles: semi-finals | ||
| M | 10,000m: final | |||||
| M | Long Jump: final | |||||
| M | Shot Put: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | 20km Race Walk: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 100m: semi-finals, final | |||||
| W | 400m: semi-finals | |||||
| W | 10,000m: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Discus: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Heptathlon: 800m, victory ceremony | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 05 August 2012 | 18:50 - 21:55 | M | 100m: semi-finals, final | ||
| M | 400m: semi-finals | |||||
| M | 1500m: semi-finals | |||||
| M | 3000m Steeplechase: final | |||||
| M | 10,000m: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | High Jump: qualifying | |||||
| M | Long Jump: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Hammer: final | |||||
| W | 100m: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 400m: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 400m Hurdles: round 1 | |||||
| W | Triple Jump: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Marathon: victory ceremony | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 06 August 2012 | 10:00 - 12:20 | M | 800m: round 1 | ||
| M | Discus: qualifying | |||||
| W | 100m Hurdles: round 1 | |||||
| W | 1500m: round 1 | |||||
| W | Shot Put: qualifying | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 06 August 2012 | 18:50 - 21:40 | M | 100m: victory ceremony | ||
| M | 400m: final | |||||
| M | 400m Hurdles: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| M | 3000m Steeplechase: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Hammer: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 200m: round 1 | |||||
| W | 400m Hurdles: semi-finals | |||||
| W | 3000m Steeplechase: final | |||||
| W | Pole Vault: final | |||||
| W | Shot Put: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 07 August 2012 | 10:00 - 12:35 | M | 110m Hurdles: round 1 | ||
| M | 200m: round 1 | |||||
| M | Triple Jump: qualifying | |||||
| W | 5000m: round 1 | |||||
| W | Javelin: qualifying | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 07 August 2012 | 18:50 - 21:20 | M | 400m: victory ceremony | ||
| M | 800m: semi-finals | |||||
| M | 1500m: final | |||||
| M | High Jump: final | |||||
| M | Discus: final | |||||
| W | 100m Hurdles: semi-finals, final | |||||
| W | 200m: semi-finals | |||||
| W | 3000m Steeplechase: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Long Jump: qualifying | |||||
| W | Pole Vault: victory ceremony | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 08 August 2012 | 10:00 - 13:40 | M | 5000m: round 1 | ||
| M | Pole Vault: qualifying | |||||
| M | Decathlon: 100m, long jump, shot put | |||||
| W | 800m: round 1 | |||||
| W | Hammer: qualifying | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 08 August 2012 | 18:00 - 21:55 | M | 110m Hurdles: semi-finals, final | ||
| M | 200m: semi-finals | |||||
| M | 1500m: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | High Jump: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Discus: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Javelin: qualifying | |||||
| M | Decathlon: high jump, 400m | |||||
| W | 100m Hurdles: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 200m: final | |||||
| W | 400m Hurdles: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 1500m: semi-finals | |||||
| W | Long Jump: final | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 09 August 2012 | 09:00 - 16:00 | M | 4 x 400m Relay: round 1 | ||
| M | Decathlon: 110m hurdles, discus, pole vault | |||||
| W | High Jump: qualifying | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 09 August 2012 | 18:30 - 22:10 | M | 110m Hurdles: victory ceremony | ||
| M | 200m: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| M | 800m: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Triple Jump: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Decathlon: javelin, 1500m | |||||
| W | 200m: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 800m: semi-finals | |||||
| W | 4 x 100m Relay: round 1 | |||||
| W | Long Jump: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Javelin: final | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 10 August 2012 | 19:00 - 21:40 | M | 4 x 100m Relay: round 1 | ||
| M | 4 x 400m Relay: final | |||||
| M | Pole Vault: final | |||||
| M | Decathlon: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 1500m: final | |||||
| W | 5000m: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 4 x 100m Relay: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 4 x 400m Relay: round 1 | |||||
| W | Hammer: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Javelin: victory ceremony | |||||
| Olympic Stadium | 11 August 2012 | 18:45 - 21:30 | M | 5000m: final, victory ceremony | ||
| M | 4 x 100m Relay: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| M | 4 x 400m Relay: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Pole Vault: victory ceremony | |||||
| M | Javelin: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| M | 50km Race Walk: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 800m: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 4 x 400m Relay: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | High Jump: final, victory ceremony | |||||
| W | Hammer: victory ceremony | |||||
| W | 20km Race Walk: victory ceremony | |||||
| The Mall | 05 August 2012 | 11:00 - 14:00 | W | Marathon | ||
| The Mall | 12 August 2012 | 11:00 - 13:40 | M | Marathon | ||
| The Mall | 04 August 2012 | 17:00 - 18:30 | M | 20km Race Walk | ||
| The Mall | 11 August 2012 | 09:00 - 13:20 | M | 50km Race Walk | ||
| The Mall | 11 August 2012 | 17:00 - 18:45 | W | 20km Race Walk | ||
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