The Olympics are coming back after four years this 2012 in London, United Kingdom. One of the most popular event in Olympic is football. In Olympic 2012, the event football will take place around United Kingdom. There will be 58 matches and 504 athletes will fight for two gold medals on 11 a side football and one gold medal for each 7 a side and 5 a side football. The events of the Olympic Games will be held from 27th July to 12th August, 2012.

Ricoh Arena: Ricoh Arena is a stadium complex in Coventry, England. This complex contains a football stadium with a capacity for about 33000 spectators and an exhibition hall, hotel and leisure club and a casino spread over 6000 square metre. There is also an Arena Park Shopping Centre which is the largest hypermarket in United Kingdom.

Construction and Features: The idea of making this complex was generated by the chairman of the club, Bryan Richardson in 1997. The plan was to complete the stadium within the session of 2000-2001. This job was given to the architect company The Miller Partnership.

The original plan for the Arena was to construct a 45,000 seat stadium which will feature a retractable roof. There would also be a pitch which could slide out as a hard floor at the time of concert.

This arena has been opened for public in 2005 with a super luxury arrangement. Beside the playground, the Jaguar hall is also important conference hall. The Jaguar hall of this arena is a column free exhibition hall which features fully air conditioned atmosphere. It can be divided in two units of 2000 sq/m and 4000sq/m.

This stadium is the first cashless stadium in United Kingdom. The customers’ uses pre paid smart cards in the bars and shopping malls.

The main playground is in dimension, 105 metre long and 68 metre wide and the surface is full of grass.

Cost: The total construction cost of this project was near about £56million.

Sports and Events : This ground is a football ground with super luxury arrangements. The first event hosted here is Coventry City FC’s home games in session 2005-2006. In September 23, 2005 this arena held a concert of Bryan Adams.

After the Olympic: This arena complex is a well-planned complex and beside sports hotels, casino, marketing complexes are here to entertain people. So, after the Olympic games, there will no change be done and it is left as it is.

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