London 2012

Host city United KingdomLondon
Date Jul 27 - Aug 12, 2012
Local time (UTC)
Currency Pound sterling, £ (GBP)

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Wind: NNE at 6 mph

London 2012 Venues

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Fact of the day

In 1960, the Winter Olympic Games, held in Squaw Valley, had Walt Disney as head of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Among the highlights was a stadium filled with high school choirs and bands, releasing of thousands of balloons, fireworks, ice statues, releasing of 2,000 white doves, and national flags dropped by parachute. 

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London 2012 Venues

Hampden Park

Sports Football
Capacity 52,063
Scotland's national stadium, Hampden Park is also the home of Third Division Queen's Park, the only amateur club participating in the Scottish league pyramid.

Other events including concerts are held at the venue, which underwent a £70 million refurbishment in X and is now rated as a five star venue by European football's governing body UEFA.

It has hosted major European football matches including two of the most famous finals in the history of the European Cup.

In 1960 Eintracht Frankfurt were beaten 7-3 by Real Madrid in one of the most famous matches in football history, and in 2002 Zinedine Zidane scored one of the greatest goals in football history, again for Real Madrid, as they beat another German team, Bayer Leverkusen.

The 146,443 crowd who witnessed the Rangers V Celtic Scottish Cup final in 1937 is a European football record attendance.

Hampden Park is also the home of the Scottish Football Association as well as the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football League.

In 2012 the ground will host preliminary matches and one of the quarter finals of both the men's and women's football tournaments.

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