
(PRWEB) Apr 20, 2012
Today the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is land a full dress operation to test the operations around the Olympic Torch Relay presented by Coca-Cola, Lloyds TSB and Samsung. The operation is receiving place on the Leicester to Peterborough widen of the Relay route and is the perfection of the Olympic Torch Relay test schedule. Previous tests have focused on flame performance, hotel operations, desk top exercises and contrast the car convoy.
Dress Rehearsal covers the Relay route from Leicester to Peterborough
Rehearsal day to test operational elements of the Relay
122 students and participants behaving as Torchbearers
The Leicester to Peterborough widen of the Relay was selected since it will test each component of the Relay together with procession splits and swap modes of transport. It represents a standard day of the Relay together with both farming and city locations and is the initial time which elements such as crew, procession and communications are being tested. The procession consists of fourteen core vehicles, together with a commander car, Torchbearer drop-off and pick-up shuttles, Presenting Partner vehicles, a media vehicle, a authority car and security vehicles.
The operation is an operational rsther than than a witness event as there is no dusk jubilee and no Flame, definition which torches will not be lit. The exercise is additionally a possibility for host communities to knowledge how the Relay looks and operates in advance of the Olympic Torch Relay proceed at Lands End on nineteen May 2012.
A organisation of we estimate 400 people are working on the dress rehearsal; a standard day on the Relay will embody around 370 people. The operation will test rotational group members and concede each of them to test their particular roles. Core teams of LOCOG staff, the Metropolitan Police Torch Security Team, Presenting Partners, host Police Forces and host Local Authorities are working together in a live sourroundings for the initial time.
Photos from todays Olympic Torch Relay operation will be accessible to download via the day. Broadcast footage will be accessible on ask from footage@london2012.com
Sebastian Coe, Chair of LOCOG, said: The dress operation is a good opportunity to test all tools of the Olympic Torch Relay. I would similar to to appreciate the host Local Authorities and Police Forces for working with us on this rehearsal.
Tests are necessary to safeguard the well-spoken regulating of our operations around the Torch Relay. When all the last elements are combined for the Relay itself the fad will unequivocally build for the proceed of the London 2012 Games and the UK will get its impulse to shine.
During the dress rehearsal, the procession will pass by 12 communities along an 80-mile route. Starting the day in Leicester and stability by Quorn, Loughborough, Hoton, Wymeswold, Asfordby, Melton Mowbray, Langham, Oakham, Uppingham and Stamford prior to finishing in Peterborough. 122 participants are behaving as Torchbearers during the rehearsal. These participants have been recruited by the host Local Authorities, the Relays 3 Presenting Partners and from the Royal College of the Blind, Loughborough College and Leicester, De Montfort, Loughborough and Northampton universities.
The Olympic Torch Relay will proceed at Lands End, Cornwall on the sunrise of nineteen May 2012. On withdrawal Lands End, the Olympic Flame will travel an estimated 8,000 miles around the UK giving thousands of communities and people their impulse to gleam as the Olympic Flame comes to a place nearby them.
The Relay will take the Olympic Flame to inside of ten miles of 95% of the race and will showcase as most of the UK as possible. The route for the operation and for all 70 days of the Olympic Torch Relay were devised after endless conference with member in each nation and region.
James Williams, Director, Olympic Torch Relay, The Coca-Cola Company, said: With usually a few reduced weeks to go prior to the Olympic Flame arrives in the UK, were unequivocally vehement to be putting our Torch Relay operations to the test during the Leicester to Peterborough Dress Rehearsal. Well be phenomenon our Beat Fleet the vehicles which will travel around the UK galvanising national await the Relay and for our Future Flames, the inspirational people we have selected as Torchbearers. We cant wait for for Relay to proceed on the May 19th and for everybody around the UK to share in the sorcery of London 2012 by backing the streets to applaud their internal Future Flames!
Sally Hancock, Director, 2012 Partnership and Group Sponsorship at Lloyds Banking Group, said: As the National Presenting Partner of the London 2012 Olympic Torch send Lloyds TSB is bringing the Olympic Flame closer to our business and communities. For Lloyds TSB, the Relay holds all of our programmes together in 2012; permitting us to go on to take the impulse and fad of the Games to the heart of communities opposite the UK.
‘Our Torchbearers will be representing their internal communities, Local Heroes will be carrying the Flame for their sport and young athletes all over the UK; schools will be backing the route and assisting us applaud along the way, and with branches on scarcely each tall travel were mouth-watering our business and the internal community to applaud with us as the Torch passes their front doors. The test event brings us one step closer to the proceed of the Relay and the impulse when each dilemma of Britain will proceed to feel the fad of London 2012.
Mr Sunny Hwang, Vice President & Head of Global Sports Marketing, Samsung Electronics, said: ‘Today is about excellent tuning the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay logistics and as Samsung thrives on strong testing, we’re gay to be part of this last run through. The dress operation outlines scarcely two years of beautiful and logistics formulation by Samsung with LOCOG, so as a Presenting Partner this is a tremendously critical miracle in our London 2012 journey. This is a very sparkling time for everybody and we demeanour brazen to welcoming all our Olympic Torchbearers and Olympic fans from opposite the UK and around world. I hold this will be the very best Olympic Torch Relay in the history of the complicated Olympic transformation and we’re intensely unapproachable to be personification our part in making it happen.
For serve information greatfully hit the London 2012 Press Office.
Notes to editors:
About the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Presenting Partners:
As the longest station Presenting Partner of the Olympic Torch Relay, Coca-Cola will be regulating its birthright and knowledge to spread fad opposite the UK forward of London 2012. Coca-Cola’s national assignment debate – Future Flames has focused on anticipating inspirational young people from opposite the country to have the once in a lifetime opportunity to lift the Olympic Flame. This summer Coca-Cola will applaud these Future Flames: young people who use their passions in areas similar to sport and earthy activity, music and dance, and community and the environment; to spread complacency in their internal communities.
As the usually National Presenting Partner of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, Lloyds TSB will be receiving the spirit and impulse of the Olympic Flame right to the heart of communities opposite the UK. As part of Lloyds Banking Group, Bank of Scotland will be the National Presenting Partner in Scotland. Schools can be right at the heart of the celebrations by our Flame Followers programme, giving them access to free resources to get their pupils desirous and vehement about the Olympic Torch Relay. Customers can be the initial to hear how they can follow the Olympic Flame, by our customer-exclusive programme Trackside.
As a Presenting Partner of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, Samsung aims to inspire everybody to be part of the biggest show on Earth to make London 2012 Everyone



