Olympic Costs and Crowds
The Olympic stadium for the 2012 London Games will cost £21 million more to build than originally predicted, the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has said. The increase is blamed on inflation, VAT and additional earthworks. Earlier the government increased the budget for the Games to ₤9.3 billion.
It is expected that more than 55,000 athletes, officials and media, 500,000 spectators and 120,000 staff and volunteers will be traveling to the Games each day. About 240,000 people an hour will be able to arrive at the Olympic Park by train, with one train operating every 15 seconds.
