Olympic Britain 2012 - your unofficial guide to the London 2012 Olympics

Olympic Britain 2012

Welcome to Olympic Britain 2012.

Official Olympic information can be found on the Official Olympic website at www.london2012.com. This website (not connected with LOCOG) is the Unofficial Guide, providing information about the specific venues, links to accommodation in 2012, jobs in 2012 and places to visit in 2012..

It also provides a London 2012 Discussion Forum for anyone with an interest in the Games - from the Olympic Venues to up and coming British athletes that may or may not be competing at the Olympics in 2012.

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If you have anything that you wish to see added to this website, then do let us know - either on the 2012 Discussion Forum or via our Contact Form.

Accommodation in 2012

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If you're looking for accommodation in 2012, register for free - now!
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Property to Let in 2012. If you have accommodation to let, then check out our London 2012 accommodation page.

It's just £100 + vat to advertise your Property from now to the end of 2012. No extra costs, no nothing. Automatic emails when new tenants register, Search Engine friendly with our accommodation information (your property) appearing across nearly 100 web names such as

• Dorney2012.com
• Windsor2012.com
• Calais2012.co.uk (South London!)
• Jubilee2012.com (Don't forget the Queen's Diamond Jubilee is also in 2012)

Look at the bottom of this page for the list. We make sure that your Property has every chance of being seen by prospective Tenants. Why go anywhere else at this price?

2012 Job opportunities

If you are looking for work in 2012, then find out more on our "2012 work oppportunities Discussion Forum". Also, register (for free) with Recruitment websites such as Monster.co.uk or Caterer.com and set your Job search text to be "2012". You can then get rapid email notification of any new jobs posted.

2012 Newsletter

To keep up to date with News and related Events & offers, subscribe to our Newsletter.

We are in need of photographs of any of the London 2012 Olympic Venues (and there are plenty to choose from). If you have any that you would like to share, click here to email them to us.

Do you think that you could have been a Top Athlete if it wasn't for circumstances??? Challenge yourself in our Games Room and see if you have what it takes.

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Discuss 2012 on our Forum

If you have something to say or have any questions about the London Olympics, Venues, Categories, Paralympics, Team GB Training Camp, Britsh Olympic hopefuls, Beijing 2008 or the plans for 2016 Olympics, then check out our London 2012 Discussion Forum. Similarly, if you would like to suggest a feature for this website, then let us know on the London 2012 Forum.

Snippets

Think of a London 2012 Olympic location - London? Obviously. Dorney? Yup. Weymouth, Broxbourne, Calais, Portland Harbour.

Hang on, Calais? Apparently so. Dominique Dupilet, the chairman of the Pas de Calais regional council, has spotted a unique opportunity. With Calais to London easier than certain UK locations thanks to the tunnel, he is hoping to attrach Francophilic teams and tourists.

Hoisting the Union Jack above his council offices “within a minute of the announcement” in 2005, he unveiled a plan for all things Anglais to generate revenue and publicity from the games by trying to attract athletes, fans and journalists. “We decided to make the Pas de Calais the most active English region in terms of the Olympics,” he told The Times.

He has a point, though. What do you think?

Official or not?

OlympicBritan2012.com is an unofficial London 2012 Olympics Website. We do not claim to be otherwise. We just hope that it is a useful source of information for visitors to the UK in 2012 - both for the London 2012 Olympics and also to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

As has been seen with Beijing, however, where there is money there is fraud - from fake and non-existent tickets to official-looking websites that can skim your credit card before you can say 'overspend', to fake 'official' merchandise.

Through this website, we will tell you where you can Officially buy tickets & merchandise and which websites are Officially Approved by London 2012. All official links can be verified by going to the Official London 2012 Website as well.

Through this website, we will also tell you of any websites that purport to be Official but, in fact have nothing to do with London 2012 and we recommend that you avoid them. This list can be found on our Forum here. Do let us know should you find any others.

As Sergeant Esterhaus would have said: "Let's Be Careful Out There".

Latest Team GB Hopefuls

Identical twins Helen and Carol Galashan are students at Leeds Metropolitan University, and are Britain's leading synchronised diving hopefuls for the 2012 Olympics. The twins' training programme and the Aquatics Centre at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds, where the girls train, are both backed by the Lottery. This means the girls have the best possible training facilities, and the best chance to realise their Olympic dream!

Read more on the Forum and see the current list here.