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Many British Olympic athletes are grateful for the support of the UK lottery draw in their preparations for the 2012 Games.

“The support of the National Lottery and its players has been very important and allowed me to compete and win against the best in the world.”

So said Rebecca Adlington, winner of two swimming gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and who looks forward to doing the same or better in London next year. Her preparations are going well as she became world champion for the 800m Freestyle event in July this year. This adds to her European and Commonwealth titles as well as the Olympic title already won.

But Rebecca is far from the only athlete to be grateful for the support given to sport in the country by the UK lottery draw. Sir Chris Hoy won three gold medals for cycling in Beijing to become the most successful Olympic cyclist ever. He has been supported by the UK lottery draw for eleven years. “If I could give a message to those who play the lottery it would be thank you. It has had such a massive impact for British Cycling and for me.”

If you want to find out more about these two great athletes, why not follow them at www.ChrisHoy.com and www.RebeccaAdlington.co.uk?

In the meantime, support all the athletes by buying your UK lottery draw tickets!

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On the 27 July 2012 the London Olympics will commence. With one year to go the progress is impressive.

With the help of £2.2 billion from the British National Lottery, several of the essential venues are already completed. Construction of the main Olympic Stadium has been finished with the laying of the last square of turf and the construction of the Basketball Arena, the Handball Arena, the Velodrome, the Aquatics Centre and the Lee Valley White Water Centre has also been finished.

Also completed is the main railway station specific to the venues and the press and broadcast centres are also finished.

The development was designed with a view to long-term sustainability for the local community and, with this in mind, three quarters of the promised residential development on the area is structurally complete. Nearby the Chobham Academy school is almost structurally complete too.

About £5 billion of contracts related to the Olympic Games have been awarded to British businesses and 22,000 schools are involved in related initiatives. British companies built the entire Olympic stadium and the same can be said for 98% of the other facilities.

Over the months before the Olympic flame is lit, heralding the start of the 2012 Games, several test events will be held at the venues to ensure they are fit for their main purpose. Some have already happened with the streets of London closing on the 30 May for a successful trial of the marathon course. The white Basketball Arena will host the London International Basketball Invitational between the 16 and 21 August this year.

It has been decided not to hold the British athletics trials in the 80,000 seat Olympic stadium for logistic reasons but the venue has been busy already: the British Universities athletics championships were held there in May, as was the London Disability Grand Prix for paralympic athletes.

After much concern about the cost of the construction, it is at last good to see that everything is well on schedule. The British National Lottery money was obviously well spent.

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Stef Collins has been star of women’s basketball in New York State for some years but for the 2012 Olympic Games in London she hopes to play for Great Britain, following a training camp provided by the British National Lottery.

The reason she can play for Great Britain and take advantage of the generosity of the British National Lottery is that Stef (now 28 years old) was born in Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire. She moved to America and played basketball for Odessa-Montour high school and St. Bonaventure University.

The places on the squad are not yet finalized but it seems pretty certain she will play for the British team: a fact that is exciting both for British ambitions and for her fans in New York. 2012 will be the first time a British team has appeared at the Olympics since women’s basketball was included in 1976. The British Basketball Federation was only formed in 2006 specifically for the build up to the London Olympic Games.

Stef Collins has in fact been with the British team since that start in 2006 and they made their mark last month by making it to the last twelve of the EuroBasket Women’s Championships in Poland.

Stef’s career has always moved between the USA and Britain as she played for a time in the Rhondda Rebels team in Wales before moving to the University of Wales at Cardiff to get a master’s degree and play basketball.

Damian Jennings, an assistant coach on the Great Britain team marks Stef down as a natural leader so it all looks good for British hopes.

Once again the British National Lottery helps Olympic hopefuls get to the Games.

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There is still over a year until the 2012 Summer Olympic Games take place, but both London and the British National Lottery are gearing up for this special event. London is currently in the midst of preparations for when they host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, while the National Lottery is working on raising £2.2 billion for the events.

The proceeds from the National Lottery will help fund five new sports facilities for the 2012 Olympic Games including Olympic Stadium, Handball Arena, Hockey Centre, VeloPark and the Aquatics Centre. The highlight of the sports facilities will no doubt be the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, which will host the track and field events, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. Work on Olympic Stadium began in the spring of 2008, and should be finished in 2011. In fact, Olympic officials are ready to begin testing the facilities by the summer of 2011.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogue is very pleased with the progress of Olympic Stadium and the other facilities as he said, “I am in no doubt that in 2012, we will see a great Games that will make a difference to us all.”

All of the facilities will be built in the Queen Olympic Park district of London, and the area will house athletes in addition to the aforementioned stadiums. London’s mayor Boris Johnson is very excited about the developments as he said, “Not since Georgian England has London seen such an ambitious and comprehensive vision for a new district.” As far as what is to become of the area once the Olympic Games are over with, plans are in the works for homes, businesses, leisure facilities and parks.

Going back to the £2.2 billion that is being raised for these projects, £750 million of the money will come from special lottery games that the National Lottery is holding. There will be 10 Scratch Card Olympic Games listed under the special games section, which include Blazing 7’s, Monster Money, Double Red Hot 7, Mystic Dog, Money Spider, Triple Cash, Royal 7’s, Lucky 7’s, Super 7’s and Winner’s Luck. In addition to the Scratch Card Olympic Games, there will also be 34 Interactive Instant Win Olympic Games. The “good cause” portion of revenue from all of these games will go towards the Olympic Lottery Distribution Fund (OLDF).

The remaining £1.45 billion that’s set to be donated towards the 2012 Olympic Games will come from the main National Lottery drawings. Of course, donating money to a charitable cause is nothing new for the National Lottery because the organization has donated over £24 billion since beginning operation in 1994. 28% of the money from every ticket sale goes towards charity, while 50% goes towards funding the jackpot drawings.

Perhaps this is a big reason why the National Lottery offers some of the biggest jackpots out of any lottery in the world. The EuroMillions, which is under the same umbrella as the National Lottery, once paid out a £134 million jackpot! This lottery has offered several other lotteries worth over £100 million too.

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One of the problems left by hosting an Olympic games is continuing the inevitable surge of interest in sport created in the host country.

For this reason the London 2012 Olympic committee have announced £135 million British National Lottery funding to create the Places People Play scheme. This will be used to create new facilities around the country and train 40 000 sports leaders and this is hoped to encourage over 2 million people to get active.

A recent survey of 100 top-class athletes by the British National Lottery has also shown the average British athlete will spend 10 000 hours in training between the Beijing and London Olympics. That equates to six hours a day, six days a week, 12 months of the year for four years.

Jessica Ennis, world and European heptathlon champion, agrees this is accurate. She spends around 50 hours a week at the local park, in the gym or on the track. “All the hard work will be worth it though to simply compete in front of a home crowd at London 2012 – and to win a medal would just be a dream come true,” she said.

The average athlete also consumes 1.1 million calories per year. That is the same as eating three Christmas dinners a day! The average Olympic swimmer swims 1864 miles a year in preparation for the Games. The average synchronised swimmer holds his or her breath for a total of two and a half hours every week.

The wheelchair basketball team goes through around 100 tyres a year for their special chairs. The average athlete has been training for 11 years, started serious sport at the age of 14 and completes in seven international competitions a year.

Interestingly, 87 percent of those interviewed said they would have to find paid employment if they were not supported by the British National Lottery.

Obviously the Lottery funding has changed the face of British sport.

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Originally posted to the National Lottery website.

Thanks to the players of The National Lottery, the Olympic Park in Stratford is taking shape in style – with the 80,000-seater Olympic Stadium fast becoming a stunning focal point.

The arena will be the centrepiece of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, staging the opening and closing ceremonies as well as the track and field programmes. Construction of the Stadium began in May 2008 and is on course for completion in the Summer of 2011. The external structure of the stadium is finished, including all the sections to support the roof and upper tier terracing. Eight large cranes lifted the 28 steel roof trusses in place, with each truss weighing 15 tonnes. It is expected that the roof will be fully complete with the covering installed by autumn 2010.

The International Olympic Committee have been impressed with the progress being made and their President Jacques Rogge said: “I am in no doubt that in 2012 we will see a great Games that will make a difference to us all.”

The Olympic Delivery Authority, the body that is in charge of the venues, has now started construction on all permanent venues in the Olympic Park. To the south east corner of the Olympic Park, close to the Olympic Stadium, is another eye-catching site – the Aquatics Centre. The steel frame of the Aquatics Centre’s roof is almost complete and the 2,800 tonne structure will then be lifted into place on three concrete supports.

In another exciting development for London 2012, the Cultural Olympiad, the festival of celebration to go alongside the Games, now has its funding in place thanks to £16m of National Lottery funding, further illustrating the unique way in which National Lottery players’ are supporting London 2012.

(c) The National Lottery

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/goodcausesandwinners/london2012/yourvenues.ftl

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In Beijing in 2008, Rebecca Adlington won two Olympic swimming gold medals: the first British woman to win an Olympic swimming title for twenty years. Ironically, in the 800 metres even she also beat a twenty-year old record time.

Rebecca is obviously looking towards the London Olympics of 2012 and believes that the funding she has received from the UK lottery draw has been key in her success. The money given to her has allowed her access to world class coaching, training and medical  support.

Out of every pound spent in the UK lottery draw, 28 pence goes to good causes. Five pence of that is used to finance the London Olympics.

The government have set up a body to oversee the distribution of these funds. The Olympic Lottery Distributor will have an income of  £1835 million from the UK lottery draw from which it will support the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

In preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the British National Lottery invested £265 million in the World Class Pathway. This supported athletes and resulted in a haul of over 140 medals for those in the scheme. In the same way, those preparing to compete in 2012 will also get lottery support.

£2.2 billion of British National Lottery funds will help create the facilities to host the Games. This will also provide a long-lasting legacy for the people of London and, indeed, the UK. The money invested in the Olympics will not be lost, however. The government announced that the land used for the Olympics will be sold and some of the profits will be paid back to the UK lottery fund.

The Olympic village, partly financed by the UK lottery draw, will house 17 000 athletes and officials during the Games and more than 6000 people during the Paralympic Games. The Village will then contribute to the regeneration of Stratford City after the Games. It will provide some 4000 new homes, office buildings, leisure facilities and a new shopping complex.

There are other related projects, which the Lottery is also funding. For example Unlimited is an initiative which provides art and sports opportunities for disabled people and the lottery fund has donated £3 million to ensure it works as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

The London Olympics in 2012 are clearly an expensive undertaking so funding from the UK lottery draw is clearly welcome. Indeed, Rebecca Adlington has used an interview recently to thank those who play the British National Lottery.

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