London 2012 Olympics
Client: LOCOG
Scope: Rigging services
Scope: Rigging services
Olympic Games 2012
As well as playing a huge role in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games (click here to read more), Unusual Rigging were on site at a total of 21 Olympic venues, where we rigged:
- broadcast lighting and other broadcast facilities
- balloon cam
- score boards
- screens
- audio
- video
- flags of nations
and also supplied the automation for the raising and lowering of the victory ceremony flags.
| Venues included: | ||
| Olympic Park: Aquatic Centre, Copper Box, Basketball Arena, Velodrome and Water Polo Arena | ||
| Box Hill | City of Coventry Stadium | Earls Court |
| Eton Dorney | ExCel | Hampton Court Palace |
| Hadleigh Farm | Greenwich Park | Hyde Park |
| Lee Valley White Water Centre | Millennium Stadium (Cardiff) | North Greenwich Arena |
| Royal Artillery Barracks | St James Park (Newcastle) | The Mall |
| Wembley Arena | Wembley Stadium | Weymouth and Portland |
| Wimbledon | ||
plus the Media Centre, the Athletes’ Village and Mayesbrook Park, one of the athletic training grounds.
Paralympic Games 2012
- For the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games 2012 Unusual Rigging installed the zip line that carried triathlete Joe Townsend, with the Paralympic flame, the 377ft from the top of Anish Kapoor’s Orbit down into the Stadium
- For the closing ceremony, the motorbike aerialists who circled across the stadium did so on high wires installed by Unusual Rigging
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