The ceremony ended with a spectacular firework display over the Olympic Stadium and Park, providing a fitting finale to an entirely unforgettable London 2012.

Construction work to build a stadium for London to host the 2012 Summer Olympics on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford began in May 2008 and was completed in March 2011. The venue was known as ...

The 1908 Olympics were originally awarded ... the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. London stepped in to take over and built a new 68,000-seat stadium in ten months at a cost of £40,000 at White ...