Our Olympic Experience - around the Park

We have just returned from the London Olympics where we were volunteers – called “Gamesmakers”. 

Our specific role was in the Hockey events. We were sports statisticians – this meant that we were collecting match statistics for the matches in both the Men's and Women's competitions - % possession, shots on goal etc.

In this and the next four blog entries I’ll aim to give a flavour of our Olympic experience – around the Olympic Park; then specifically at hockey’s Riverbank Stadium; and more generally around London.

This is the Olympic Stadium - home to the Athletics

The Orbit

The multi-coloured carpet outside the Olympic Stadium

The Copper Box - home to the early part of the Handball competition

The Basketball Arena - the Handball moved here for the finals ...

... and we managed to see the France v Spain quarter final. France won 23-22 and this is France about to score the winning goal with one second to go!

This is the Velodrome - affectionately nicknamed the "Pringle"

This is the BBC Sports studio - on top of all the blue boxes

Around the Park there was music on all the time ...

... sometimes it was more impromptu

This was Park Live - where spectators could view a variety of events on the big screen. This was a very popular venue, especially in the second week of the Games

Gloriana barge

Around the garden areas

This is a massive mirror - sponsored by BP - lots of people took photos of themselves in the mirror, taking photos of themselves ... and we were two such folk!

The hockey stadium - Riverbank Arena