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From the article: "...meaning the Games became the first at which every country and sport included female competitors.". This was passed around some in the press at the start of the games, but I don't believe it's actually correct. Barbados (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics ) has 6 male athletes and no female, and both of Nauru's athletes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics ) are male. Kevinatilusa (talk) 19:37, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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Reviews from around the world are really good,hailing it as the best Olympics ever,a spectacle,praising London for a job well done. Also a poll was taken asking people "Was London 2012 the greatest Olympics ever staged?" with 92.07% of almost 10,000 people voting "Yes it was the best ever"
The Australian, Peter Wilson: British take gold as best Olympics Games hosts
The Age, Australia, Greg Baum: It's been a right bang-up job
Washington Post, USA, Mike Wise: London 2012 taught us about legacy, humor and courage
New York Times, USA, David Segal: Britain Takes a Final Bow
The Globe and Mail, Canada, Doug Saunders: Olympic elation envelops host nation
National Post, Canada, Bruce Arthur: Britain pulls off an Olympics to remember
New Zealand Herald, David Leggat: Three cheers for a job well done
China Daily: Grand finale brings Games to an end
Link to reviews: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9471860/London-2012-wins-gold-medal-for-best-Olympics-ever.html
Also The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro has congratulated Boris Johnson and London for putting on "the greatest Games ever".
I think a 'Review' section should be added with all this in it.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.29.179.174 (talk) 14:29, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Someone edit the part of the article about female athletes participation to match official source as discussed above in this topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.56.51.68 (talk) 00:47, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Why is there such precise distinction among tiny Olympic delegations (one color for countries with 1-3 participants, another for 4-9, and another for 10-29), but then very little among larger ones (one color for every country having between 100 and 299 participants)? It seems odd. Funnyhat (talk) 06:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Why hasn't be removed Paraskevis Papachristou minor and irrelevant with the Olympics games controversie from the mane page? is it fair for the athlete? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.69.86.166 (talk) 08:17, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
"London 2012 finale used video montage of Bowie classics, and prerecorded slots for other absentees Kate Bush and the Sex Pistols"
The article currently seems quite lopsided, giving lots of attention to the bid and preparation for the games and not so much to the event itself. So, for example, Ken Livingstone is mentioned twice in the article but Usain Bolt is not mentioned at all. I suppose this to be a consequence of the way that the article was developed - being started many years ago, filling up with details of the preparations and so leaving no space for the actual event itself. The article therefore needs rebalancing and I shall place an undue tag to encourage this. Warden (talk) 08:21, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
Although I am a Londoner and proud of the Games, I am concerned at some Pro-UK bias here. The opening few paragraphs should sum up a worldview of the Games suitable for an international encyclopedia. Therefore I think it is not appropriate to have the statement:
"Great Britain achieved its highest tally of gold medals since 1908, finishing third in the medal table."
I feel that even though UK is the Host, this should not be part of the short list of features of this Olympics that is key and relevent to Wikipedia's world of readers. This statement belongs only in articles or sections about the UK (so-called "GB") Team etc. Indeed, if anything should be said about the gold medals list at all in this section- and in my view it shouldn't- it would simply be who won it. I propose to remove this unless someone can explain why this fact belongs here.
IceDragon64 (talk) 22:15, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Rebecca Soni set a new world record for the same event twice during these Olympics. Since the final was the day after the semi-final, the records are listed separately. I think it might make more sense to consolidate them into one item, so it's clear that they are for the same event. What do other people think? Tad Lincoln (talk) 21:26, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Is there a list/a table of most successful athletes in these games? I could not find it, if there is. There is 2012 Summer Olympics medal table, which has countries/NOCs in it. The only part I could find about athletes was in "The Games" section: list of World records. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.217.15.248 (talk) 21:28, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
Could someone please change the error in the opening paragraph? The games took place in London, United Kingdom - not London, England.
Many thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatrainbowconnection (talk • contribs) 00:26, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't see that as an error. As far as I'm aware we don't have a policy as whether to refer to the country of the UK. In mot cases though the indivdual country is referred to rather than the UK. For instance, 'London, England', 'Aberdeen, Scotland', 'Newport, Wales' rather than using the UK. For what reason, I'm not sure but that seems to be the way. Often counties are used rather than countries as well, for instance the page Halifax, England simply redirects to Halifax, West Yorkshire. It is more specific I suppose. Mtaylor848 (talk) 15:30, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
London is in England and indeed it has always been common to refer to "London, England" to distinguish that London from other Londons in the world. However, I understand that since the Games are held in the UK, not just England, there may be a case for saying London, UK.
IceDragon64 (talk) 21:55, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
It says this in the opening statement. It gives no indication who these commentators are. This could probably be said for all games. If an unusually high number of notable commentators have expressed this then it should be worked in the article. However there is no mention of how many have said this and who they are. A small number of un-notable commentators may have said this but the same could be said for any games. On what basis did they say thi? There are two sources provided, one being the Telegraph, which is a little dubious and a very 'pro-British' paper.
If nobody objects or can improve this claim I shall remove it. Mtaylor848 (talk) 15:25, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Read just above you, Reviews from all over the world have hailed London 2012 as the best games ever. Worldwide polls were done asking if London 2012 were the best games ever and over 92% from around the world voted "yes". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.28.182.6 (talk) 16:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
How is it a biased and flase claim when 10,000 from around the world vote it as the best games ever and all the reviews in the links were from different countries across the world? And im Italian! lol You need to learn the meaning of the word 'biased'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.28.192.114 (talk) 03:29, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
Will all commentators on this debatable subject please ensure they use non-confrontational language. I see no reason why a statement need be referred to as "ridiculous", for example.
IceDragon64 (talk) 22:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
Personally I dislike as it looks ugly and takes away information as no diciplines are shown, but if we're going to keep it like that Aquatics (diving, swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo) needs to be merged or else it will look like the Olympics has 29 sports instead of the 26. Wondering how we'll go about it. JoshMartini007 (talk) 17:18, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
And I quote, "26 sports and 39 disciplines" and then go on to list 29.... Did I miss something? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MRadclyffe (talk • contribs) 14:16, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
There were a country and the area where a man did not participate in.[1]。As for the rhythmic gymnastics and the synchronized swimming, only a woman item is adopted, and the participation of the man is not achieved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teel-m (talk • contribs)
Incidentally, men's rhythmic gymnastics is a sport originated in Japan. World Congress was held in 2003. You tube of men's Rhythmic Gymnastics.--Teel-m (talk) 17:08, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
All the Wikipedia articles on previous Summer Olympic games include the total number of athletes and also the number of men and the number of women. This page is missing this information.
According The Guardian's datablog (http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/datablog/2012/aug/07/olympics-2012-athletes-age-weight-height#data) the numbers at London 2012 were Men: 5756 Women: 4628 However this adds up to 10,384 which doesn't quite match the total figure quoted in the infobox.
Suggested change to infobox:
Athletes participating 10,384 (4,628 women, 5,756 men)"The Guardian". Retrieved 24 August 2012.
Can someone update this please? Payo (talk) 13:40, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
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Don't we need to unlock this page? --InformationContributor11 (talk) 00:55, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
I realise that my points are certainly not earth-shaking, but the section on volunteers (2.4) has a couple of minor errors. The volunteers' shoes (trainers) at the Olympics were not beige/brown, they were grey with red laces, and the volunteer uniforms did not include fleeces, only jackets. I was in volunteer workforce operations and saw hundreds if not thousands of volunteers, and this was true of all of them (there were contractors and other workers at the Olympics who had different uniforms). Also, this section uses both present and past tense -- probably all should now be in the past tense. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.33.164.112 (talk) 06:44, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Reviewer: Jamesyboy2468 (talk · contribs) 16:54, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Let's do this. Corrections welcome... jamesy boy (2468) 17:06, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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A brief overview of the article finds some striking shortcomings. An Olympics is a huge undertaking which gathers the world's focus for two weeks. There are so many things which can be said about it that entire books could be written. The challenge of the main encyclopedic article is to summarize the event into a comprehensive work: being able to cover all important issues while keeping the overall size in balance. Details can always be moved to subarticles in line with WP:Summary style. I have a number of concerns:
As the article is now, it fails 1a, 2b, 4 with smaller margins, but is nowhere near 3a and 3b. I would recommend failing the article, as it needs to be re-composed before being able to meet criteria 3. Arsenikk (talk) 12:44, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
The Development and preparation section, at 2981 words, is more than half the article (5743 words) and is longer than the main article, 2012 Summer Olympic development (2751 words). The opening and closing ceremonies should be kept as is (at least), but most of the rest needs heavy pruning. I'll offer to do this provided nobody is going to be upset with a reduction from the current nearly 3000 words to maybe a few hundred, with loss of lots of detail. I'll copy edit the other sections first, to give time for discussion. Comments, please? --Stfg (talk) 11:26, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
The Sports section says that the IOC vote confirming its decision to drop baseball and softball took place at the 2006 Winter Olympics, but the citation is to a report dated 2005 and posted from Singapore. Hence the failed-verification tag. --Stfg (talk) 15:36, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Ticketing
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Despite the huge request for usual tickets most tickets with the highest prices(for e.g. opening ceremony category AA, which cost £2,012 each, and category A which cost £1,600,) remained unsold, even for e.g. one day before opening ceremony for this ceremony. [2]. Also empty seats made a huge public opinion and mass media discussion, not only because the VIP "for sale" seats was empty, but also because many of awarded with the free VIP tickets(like sponsors, family, politics) didn't arrived and not returned ticket.[3]
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)In my opinion, this article is fine as regards length and I think it would be a pity to split it up. This sort of dumbing down we don't need on Wikipedia. I've just used it for a Christmas quiz for grandchildren, by the way. Dendrotek 15:09, 24 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dendrotek (talk • contribs)
The sections for the Cultural Olympiad, Opening Ceremony, and Closing Cermony are very short and do not have much information. They all just have a sentence or two then another paragraph, it should have more prose. I'm not saying describe everything about each topic, but get atleast a solid paragraph or two for each one otherwise I would not pass it for GA. Disc Wheel (Malk + Montributions) 23:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
There is a list of World records, but I'm missing a section about Olympic records. Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 10:16, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
The article is quite long (I don’t say too long), but I think the list of all the world records don’t has to be on this page. I think it could be summarized and the list could be moved to its own page. There are also pages about Olympic world records (2004, 2008) and Olympic records (2004, 2008). Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 10:53, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
All the nations has in the "Participating National Olympic Committees" table have a reference that is nowadays redirected to the same page (olympic.org/olympic-results). Isn't it better to remove these references and replace them for one reference. It looks better and makes the article shorter (so it loads faster). Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 14:14, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
Could a map like the one created for the Olympic Park in Sochi be created to show what the Olympic Park in London showing all of the venues used in the games as it was set up for the games themselves with the possibility of a second map to show the Olympic Park in his legacy mode? (94.3.222.1 (talk) 21:17, 16 February 2014 (UTC))
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