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The 2012 Summer Olympics was a major international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Olympic Games , as governed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Olympic Stadium London 2012 Olympic Games

It took place in London , United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012.

The first event, the group stage in women's football , began two days earlier, on 25 July at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff . More than 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated. It started on Friday 27 July 2012 at 0:00.

Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and then-Mayor of LondonKen Livingstone, London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117thIOC Session in Singapore, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid and Paris.London was the first city to host the modern Olympic Games three times,having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948.

Construction for the Games involved considerable redevelopment, with an emphasis on sustainability. The main focus was a new 200-hectare (490-acre) Olympic Park, constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford, East London.The Games also made use of venues that already existed before the bid.[13]Jessica Ennis was described by the BBC as the poster girl of the Olympics.

The Games received widespread acclaim for their organisation, with the volunteers, the British military and public enthusiasm praised particularly highly.The opening ceremony, directed by Danny Boyle, received widespread acclaim throughout the world with particular praise from the British public despite some criticism levelled internationally on social media sites.

During the Games, Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, winning his 22nd medal.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei entered female athletes for the first time, so that every currently eligible country has sent a female competitor to at least one Olympic Games.Women's boxing was included for the first time, thus the Games became the first at which every sport had female competitors.

Mascots

The official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled on 19 May 2010.Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks in Bolton.They are named after Much Wenlock, a town in Shropshire that holds a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Stoke Mandeville, a village in Buckinghamshire where a forerunner of the Paralympic Games was first held.

Drug testing

It was announced before the Summer Games that half of all the competitors would be tested for drugs, with 150 scientists set to take 6,000 samples between the start of the Games and the end of the Paralympic Games. Every competitor who won a medal was also tested. The Olympic laboratory tested up to 400 samples every day for more than 240 prohibited substances

Drug testing Albanian weightlifter Hysen

Pulaku was the first athlete to be tested positive.

Gymnast Luiza Galiulina and runner Tameka Williams were also suspended. Nadzeya Ostapchuk was the first athlete to be stripped of a medal, when she tested positive for metenolone. Valerie Adams was therefore awarded the gold medal in shot put.

Wembley Stadium

Olympic Stadium, London

Mascots

The Countdown Clock in Trafalgar Square

Olympic rings marked on a street, indicating that the lane was reserved for the use of Olympic athletes and staff.

The Olympic Javelin service ran between St Pancras and Ebbsfleet, via Stratford

The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on the Isle of Portland in Dorset hosted the sailing events