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London 2012 Olympics Date(s): July 27-August 12, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 143 of 143 Total. 85 Visits.
1 Day 2: Sunday, volleyball at Earl's Court, 8pm start 2 Poland vs. Italy 3 Polish men win 3-1 4 Tunisia serving to Brazil 5 Tunisia receiving serve; Brazil won easily but I left around 10:30pm (after one set) because I had an early alarm tomorrow! 6 Day 3: Wembley Arena for badminton, 8:30am start 7 Michelle Li, before the match fixing scandal pushed her and Alex Bruce up to 4th in the doubles 8 Yihan Wang, Chinese #1, beat Michelle easily (and later won silver) 9 Michelle receiving serve 10 Tian and Zhao (gold medal winners) against a Japanese pair - the match fixing started when the other Chinese pair wanted to avoid these two 11 disqualified Korean pair vs. Russia on near court, and Denmark beating Poland in mixed doubles on far court 12 Wembley Park Tube Station, on the way to the office 13 Day 4: Paddington at about 7:30am, waiting for the train to Slough 14 Eton Dorney for rowing 15 Jennerich and Obee advance to semifinal in women's lightweight sculls 16 Dorney Lake is owned by Eton College 17 Vandor and Jarvis eliminated in men's lightweight sculls 18 Women's eights repechage - Canada had already advanced to the final 19 Michael Phelps wins his 19th Olympic medal, a gold in 4*200 relay 20 Day 5: Javelin train, from St Pancras to Stratford International in 6 minutes 21 Stratford International 22 Aquatic Centre for 10am swimming, but I arrived early and walked around the Olympic Park 23 Orbit 24 looking back at Stratford Gate 25 26 Water Polo Arena and Aquatic Centre 27 Steve Redgrave on big TV; behind him are Velodrome, Basketball Arena, Olympic Village 28 Riverbank Stadium, home of field hockey 29 Velodrome 30 Basketball Arena 31 Orbit and Olympic Stadium 32 Gloriana in the canal - it took the Olympic flame from Hampton Court Palace to the Olympic Park for the Opening Ceremony 33 Aquatic Centre 34 35 Women's 100m freestyle - Ruta Meilutyte lane 7, second from the bottom 36 Julia Wilkinson lane 1 37 Missy Franklin, standing up, still in her USA gear 38 Men's 200m back - Ryan Lochte lane 4, at 150m 39 Women's 200m breaststroke - Martha McCabe lane 6 40 Rebecca Soni with a huge lead - she'd break the WR in the semi and again in the final 41 Men's 200m IM - Andrew Ford lane 6 42 Michael Phelps lane 4 43 Phelps 44 Lochte now in lane 4; he won his heat 45 Women's 4*200 relay - Canada in lane 5, kept up with the Aussies and qualified 3rd, but finished 4th 46 Dana Vollmer way out front for the USA in the next heat 47 my seat didn't enable me to see the video 48 Day 6: back at Olympic Park for 9:30am handball; this is road race silver medallist Lizzie Armitstead at the BBC studio 49 Team GB's first gold went to Heather Stanning and Helen Glover in women's pair rowing 50 Copper Box, home of handball 51 52 Spain beat Korea in the first game 53 Jacques Rogge is somewhere in there 54 Korea scoring a penalty 55 Spain scoring a penalty 56 second game was France vs. Tunisia, tied after 45 minutes; France won the game and went on to defend their gold 57 Olympic Park is busier in the afternoon 58 Day 7: ExCeL for 6pm men's team sabre fencing final 59 at the Docklands between Canary Wharf and City Airport 60 Italy wins bronze over Russia 61 Korea wins gold over Romania 62 not good lighting for pictures 63 went down to Tower Bridge after the fencing 64 65 66 67 London Bridge and St. Paul's 68 the moon behind Tower Bridge (HMS Belfast in foreground) 69 70 Day 8: in Manchester for men's soccer quarterfinal, starting at noon; took a Virgin Train (yuck) from Euston to Manchester Piccadilly 71 Metrolink train to Old Trafford 72 Old Trafford 73 ugly on the inside - Man United spends their money on players apparently 74 Munich air disaster 75 Japan vs. Egypt 76 pregame ceremony 77 Japan scores first as Egyptian goalkeeper and defender collide 78 I've never been so close at a soccer game 79 faked injury - the guy ran back onto the pitch as soon as he got out of the stretcher 80 2-0 Japan 81 3-0 Japan; I left after 90 mins to make my train back to London 82 it was a good thing I did because several thousand people are lined up behind me to take the Metrolink from Old Trafford station 83 Day 9: Usain Bolt wins 100m 84 Day 10: Horse Guards Parade for 10pm men's beach volleyball quarterfinals 85 Brink/Reckerman (Germany) beat Santos/Cunha (Brazil) 86 Whitehall and London Eye viewed from my seat 87 Nummerdor/Schuil (Netherlands) beat Nicolai/Lupo (Italy) 88 great venue! 15000 people in Central London with view of the London Eye and Clock Tower 89 Day 11: South Carriage Drive just south of Hyde Park for men's triathlon; 11:30am start but people staked out these positions long before that I think 90 rather crowded 91 Brownlees and Javier Gomez - top 3 finishers 92 Britta Oppelt couldn't get a ticket either - she won silver in the quad sculls for Germany 93 Brent McMahon 94 Kyle Jones 95 96 Day 12: Olympic Stadium for 10am athletics 97 Olympic flame! 98 99 flame in the background - well guarded on the inside 100 the electronic system malfunctioned and Sultana Frizell's first, and best, hammer throw wasn't counted 101 Damian Warner running decathlon 100m 102 Orbit; also Mo Farah on the track for his 5000m heat 103 104 Mo Farah qualified third 105 Women's 800m - Caster Semenya in lane 8 106 Jessica Smith was second in her heat to qualify for the semifinal 107 Sarah Attar - Saudi Arabia's first female in Olympic Track and Field (she's lived in California her whole life) 108 Attar finishing 109 Ashton Eaton in the closer shot put area - he easily won gold in the decathlon 110 Javelin train back to St. Pancras 111 Misty May and Kerri Walsh win their third consecutive Olympic gold 112 Day 13: Coventry for women's soccer bronze, 1pm start 113 City of Coventry Stadium 114 Canada warming up - Christine Sinclair is front left 115 116 117 O Canada 118 about to kickoff 119 the French got an indirect free kick in the final minutes (this one was deserved unlike the one that demoted us to the bronze medal game) 120 Abily gets yellow card for late tackle on Sinclair in 90th minute 121 Diana Matheson's injury time goal gave us a 1-0 win 122 celebrating a deserved medal, even if the win in this game wasn't deserved 123 124 125 Christine Sinclair posing with some French fans 126 Melanie Booth and Sophie Schmidt 127 waiting for the bus back to Coventry Station 128 David Rudisha WR in 800m final 129 Jamaica sweeps the medals in men's 200m with Bolt defending his Olympic title 130 Day 14: Hyde Park for men's 10k swim; noon start, so I took 3 hours off in the middle of the day 131 tried the north side of the Serpentine this time - definitely less crowded; that's Richard Weinberger without the cap 132 133 line at security to get into Hyde Park "live site", just to watch events on a big screen TV 134 Oussama Mellouli is at the first boat, Lurz and Weinberger are chasing 135 136 start/finish area in the background 137 Day 15: Mo Farah wins the 5000m to add to his 10000m gold 138 Jamaica defends their 4*100 relay title in WR time 139 Day 16: at the Monument for men's marathon 140 Stephen Kiprotich and others chasing the leader, Franck de Almeida of Brazil 141 142 the view from the top of the monument at mile 14; Stephen Kiprotich and Abel Kirui chasing Wilson Kipsang who's out of the shot 143 Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda won the gold in 2h 8min on a really hot day
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