Basketball Arena
A temporary 12,000-seat venue in Olympic Park for the duration of the games. The Basketball Arena will host the Basketball preliminaries and quarter-finals (the final will be at The O2), Handball semi-finals and finals, Wheelchair Basketball and Wheelchair Rugby.

Handball Arena
With its showy copper exterior, this new venue will host the Handball, Modern Pentathlon (Fencing and Shooting) and Paralympic Goalball events. The Handball Arena, with a flexible seating capacity up to 7,000, will remain on site for use in indoor sports competitions and training for years to come.

Hockey Centre
Hockey, Paralympic Five-a-side Football and Paralympic Seven-a side Football will be played in the temporary Hockey Centre to audiences of 15,000 on the main pitch and 5,000 on the second pitch.

Olympic Stadium
The Olympic Stadium will be the centre of the action for the London Olympics and Paralympic Games. Located in the heart of the Olympic Park in Stratford, the Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony and all Athletics events will be held in this innovative 80,000-seat venue (to be converted into a permanent 25,000 seat stadium post-Olympics).

VeloPark
This new, 12,000-seat complex will showcase the Track Cycling, BMX and Paralympic Track Cycling events. After the Games, a Road Cycle circuit and Mountain Bike course will be added to create a VeloPark for the local community, local clubs and elite athletes.

ExCeL
One of London's biggest and most prestigious conference venues, ExCeL will showcase the Olympic sports of Boxing, Fencing, Judo, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Wrestling, Boccia, Paralympic Table Tennis, Paralympic Powerlifting and Wheelchair Basketball during the Games.

Greenwich Park
A World Heritage Site and historic playground of Henry VIII, Greenwich Park will host Equestrian, Paralympic Equestrian and Modern Pentathlon events. A cross-country course and main arena for 23,000 spectators will be constructed in the park for the duration of the games and removed afterwards.

Horse Guards Parade
This historic location in Central London boasts the Prime Minister as a neighbour and hosts the famous Trooping The Colour ceremony each year on the Queen's Birthday.
For the London 2012 Olympics, the 250-year old Horse Guards Parade courtyard will be filled with sand and a temporary, 15,000 seat arena to host the Beach Volleyball competition. We've heard Her Majesty's a fan.

Hyde Park
Central London's Hyde Park will host the Olympic Triathlon and 10km Open Water Swim in the Serpentine. From a temporary structure in the park, 3,000 spectators will enjoy a grandstand view of the finishing area for the events, with many thousands more able to watch as the athletes swim, cycle and run on the course.
Hyde Park will also be home to the music, theatre, film and cultural events that will take place throughout the summer of 2012 to accompany the Olympic Games.

Lord's Cricket Ground
The iconic London sports ground and "home of world cricket", Lord's Cricket Ground will host the Olympic Archery events.

The O2 Arena / North Greenwich Arena 1
The O2 "bubble", as it's affectionately known, seats 20,000 and is a popular London venue in its own right. It will be called North Greenwich Arena 1 during the Games and will host Gymnastics, Basketball (finals) and Wheelchair Basketball.

The Regent's Park
The Road Cycling course will take in some of London's premier locations including Hampstead Heath, before reaching its conclusion in Regent's Park in front of 3,000 seated spectators.

The Royal Artillery Barracks
This historic building complex, dating back to 1776, provides a fitting venue for the Olympic and Paralympic Shooting events. Located on the edge of Woolwich Common in South East London, close to Greenwich Park, the Royal Artillery Barracks accommodates 7,500 spectators.

Wembley Arena
Wembley Arena, a world-renowned 12,500-seat indoor arena in West London, will host the Rhythmic Gymnastics and Badminton events at the 2012 Olympics.

Wembley Stadium
Olympic Football (soccer) will be played at existing stadia in London and throughout the UK. In London, Wembley Stadium boasts 90,000 capacity.
Other famous locations where matches will be played include: Hampden Park in Glasgow; Millennium Stadium in Cardiff; Manchester's Old Trafford; St James' Park, Newcastle; and Coventry Ricoh Stadium.

Wimbledon
What could be more fitting than the London 2012 Olympic Tennis at Wimbledon? With seating capacity for up to 30,000 spectators, Wimbledon is the only major grass-court Tennis venue in the world.

Eton Dorney
About 25 miles (40km) from London, near Windsor Castle, this area is home to both Eton College and Lake Dorney. The lake, where Rowing and Flatwater Canoe/Kayak and Paralympic Rowing will be held, features a 2,200m, eight lane course with a separate return lane recently constructed to international standards by Eton College. Eton Dorney will host up to 30,000 spectators each day during the Olympic Games.

Lee Valley White Water Centre
The Lee Valley White Water Centre is 18.5 miles (30km) to the north of the Olympic Park, near Waltham Cross. During the London 2012 Games, the course will be used for canoe slalom events, hosting 12,000 spectators each day. The centre features world-class runs, including a permanent 300m competition course and a 100m warm-up course. Opening to the public in spring 2011, it will be the first brand new London 2012 Games venue to be completed and open for use. It will be a major centre for white water rafting as well as canoeing and kayaking both before and after the Games, when it will be operated by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority.

Hadleigh Farm, Essex
A new, temporary, but suitably challenging Olympic Mountain Bike Cycling course will be constructed in Essex, to the east of London. To watch the exciting finish, a temporary 3,000-capacity grandstand and facilities will also be built on a site at Hadleigh Farm

Weymouth and Portland
Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour provide some of the best natural sailing waters in the UK, with facilities on land to match. This will be the venue for the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing competitions.
The site has already hosted numerous international sailing events, including the 2006 ISAF World Youth Championships, attended by more than 60 nations.