Location: London Docklands, an area in east and southeast London
2012 Olympic Venue Preview: ExCeL
The ExCeL will be home to seven sports during the 2012 London Olympics.
Events: Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Taekwondo, Table Tennis, Weightlifting, Wrestling
Construction: 2001, with renovations in 2010
Acres: 100
Sports Halls: Five
The ExCeL (short for Exhibition Center London) is the largest competition venue and will be one of the busiest sites at the 2012 London Olympics, home to seven different sports and in use throughout the weeks of the Summer Games.
Opened originally as an international conference center in 2001, the ExCeL has proved a versatile space for many events, including trial runs of sporting tournaments in 2011, and did not need to be modified for the Olympics. Five sports halls with capacities varying from 5,000 to 10,000 fans will see allow fans to see everything from the clean and jerk to epee fencing at the ExCeL.
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Unsurprisingly, the ExCeL will be back to having conferences and the like within its walls shortly after the Olympics.
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