{"id":4868,"date":"2012-07-31T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2012-07-31T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T11:37:16","slug":"london-2012-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4868","title":{"rendered":"London 2012 Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Day 5 of 17<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/onebox\/sports\/olympics\/london2012_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.in\/url?url=http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/&amp;rct=j&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=ergXUMjYKIq3rAe__YGwAw&amp;ved=0CP4GEKAbKAIwAA&amp;q=london+olympics+medal+tallay&amp;usg=AFQjCNEQOz_SsmCmeR80jQXzNzOLTohSWw\" target=\"_blank\">london2012.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, also known informally as London 2012, began in London, United Kingdom, on 27\u00a0July and will continue until 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stages in women&#8217;s football, began two days earlier on 25 July. Around 10,500 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are expected to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Lord Coe and the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117th IOC Session in Singapore, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid and Paris.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Election_4-0\">[5]<\/sup> London is the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times,<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\">]<\/sup> having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Construction in preparation for the Games has involved considerable redevelopment, particularly themed towards sustainability.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\">[10]<\/sup> The main focus of this is a new 200-hectare Olympic Park, constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford in the east of London.The Games also make use of venues which were already in place before the bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 5 of 17 london2012.com The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, also known informally as London 2012, began in London, United Kingdom, on 27\u00a0July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=4868\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4666,4667,4668,4669,4670,207,4671,4672,4673,4674,4675,4676,4677],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-about-london","tag-about-london-olympics","tag-about-the-london-olympics","tag-also-known-informally-as-london-2012","tag-began-in-london","tag-current-affairs","tag-london-2012","tag-london-2012-olympic-games","tag-officially-the-games-of-the-xxx-olympiad","tag-olympic-games","tag-the-2012-summer-olympic-games","tag-the-london-olympics","tag-united-kingdom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}