15,000 people will be able to view Olympic road cycling event – London Olympics 2012
It has been recently announced that the number of people who will be able to watch the Olympic road cycling event in the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games has been increased to 15,000.
This increase in the capacity of the spectators is a good fourfold increase.
The road cycling event of the Olympic Games is scheduled to take place in the area of Box Hill in Surrey. The points at which the increase has been made to accommodate a significantly increased number of people at the event are the incline that is present
at the Zig-Zag Road as well as the Donkey Green area of Box Hill.
The total number of people that were initially put down for the event was 3,500 but now work is being done on the mentioned area in order to increase the capacity.
Debbie Jevans, who is the director of sport for the London 2012 Olympic Games, expressed herself in the following words on the matter, “We are delighted to welcome people to watch the Olympic Road Race from the Zig-Zag Road and Donkey Green at Box Hill.
We will give people the chance to see a generous amount of road race competition at one of the best stretches of road which we are able to do following the test event and our learnings there. Spectators will have a unique viewing position on the route, there
is another 120km of route which is free to spectators, including some great points through London and The Royal Parks.”
It has been decided that the required work to be done on the Zig-Zag road will start from the January 30th as a result of which the area will not be accessible to the public for a period of a week. The work will include the widening of the road by clearing
away some areas of land that is present on both sides of it.
The Olympic Games are scheduled to start from July 27 and reach their close on August 12 making the city of London the first ever in the world to stage the Games thrice.
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