The city of London has been elected host city of XXX Olympic Games of 2012.The build up to the 2012 London Olympic provides an excellent opportunity to encourage students all around the world in learning about Britain and the countries within ( England, Scotland and Wales ) and carrying out some webtasks to improve their knowledge on facts and events about Olympic Games and about London.
The Mascots
The mascots of the Olimpic Games are Wenlock and Mandeville, Wenlock is named after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock that helped inspire Pierre de Coubertin to launch the modern Olympics, and Mandeville was inspired by the Buckinghamshire town of Stoke Mandeville, where the Paralympics were founded. These two mascots will become very familiar in the next two years.
The chairman of the London organising committee of the Olympic games (Locog), Lord Coe, said the mascots were aimed at children and designed with the digital age in mind.
Among other designs rejected were anthropomorphic pigeons, an animated tea pot and a Big Ben with arms and legs.
