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The 80,000 seat Olympic Stadium would host the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as the Athletics.
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Location
The Olympic Stadium would be within the main Olympic Park, within easy walking distance of the Olympic Village and warm up facilities.Spectator guide
The state-of-the-art stadium would provide excellent viewing for spectactors and first-class facilities for athletes. The UK's famous passion for sport would provide an amazing atmosphere for competitors in both the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Legacy
The Olympic Stadium would be reconfigured to a 25,000 seat Athletics stadium, including a House of Sport which will offer training, sports science and medicine facilities for competitors and offices for national sports federations and other sports bodies.Transport
Ten separate train lines serving three stations would ensure that one train arrives at the Olympic Park every 15 seconds. The Olympic Javelin high-speed shuttle service would provide a link to central London in just seven minutes, as well as a direct train service to mainland Europe.The Olympic Park in east London, lies at the heart of the London 2012 bid.
The 500-acre site in Stratford would provide a compact, secure and easily accessible home for the Games, seven minutes from central London.
Nine new venues would be situated within easy walking distance of each other, allowing competitors and spectators alike to experience the unique atmosphere of an Olympic Games.
The main 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium would host the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as the Athletics events.
Work has already started on the world-class Aquatics Centre, which will include two 50m swimming pools and a diving pool.
The Hockey Centre would comprise two stadia with different capacities, plus a warm up pitch.
The Velopark would include the Velodome and a BMX track, while the four multi-sport arenas would be the setting for Fencing, Volleyball, Basketball and Handball.
The Park would also house the Olympic Village, providing accommodation for every competitor and official, with 80 per cent within 20 minutes of their event venues.
The compact , green site would also include a state-of-the-art media centre providing facilities for broadcast and print journalists from all over the world.
The best-ever Games transport system would deliver up to 240,000 people an hour to the Olympic Park by tube, train, bus and via park and ride schemes.
Full planning permission for the Olympic Park has already been granted, a decision that London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe called 'a major milestone'.
Lord Coe said: "If we win the right to host the Games next July, work could begin the very next day."
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