{"id":1631,"date":"2012-04-18T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T17:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2012-06-07T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T15:45:40","slug":"100-days-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/index.php\/100-days-to-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Days to the Olympics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 18th April 2012, marks 100 days until the opening of the 2012 Olympics Games that are &#8211; of course &#8211; to be held in London! We here at The Guide to Kensington and Chelsea are certainly very excited about this amazing event being held in our very own city and can&#8217;t wait to get caught up in all the fun during the Games (held from 27th July to 12th August). Yes, okay, we hear that London&#8217;s supposedly going to be super-crowded (although we&#8217;ve been told by plenty of Londoners that they&#8217;re planning on getting out of the city during the duration of the Olympics) and &#8220;transport&#8217;s going to be a nightmare&#8221; and all that but&#8230;we think it&#8217;ll be a once-in-a-lifetime experience! (I somehow think that, come the Games, the city really won&#8217;t be as congested as many people claim it will be and anyway, we&#8217;re Londoners! Surely we always take everything in our stride?!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/olympic_velodrome_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1633 aligncenter\" title=\"Olympic Velodrome\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/olympic_velodrome_.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Velodrome\" width=\"602\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/olympic_velodrome_.jpg 602w, https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/olympic_velodrome_-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The spectacular Olympic Velodrome (picture at a London Prepares test event)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kensington and Chelsea is participating in the Olympics as one of the venues (Earls Court Exhibition Centre) is located here, and there&#8217;s also some events taking place in Hyde Park, just outside the area. The Olympic Torch Relay will also visit the area on 26th July, the day before the Olympics opens.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written up a little guide to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/index.php\/things-to-see-do\/kensington-chelsea-and-the-olympics\/\" target=\"_self\">Kensington and Chelsea and The Olympics<\/a> &#8211; take a look!<\/p>\n<p>See you at The Olympics!*<\/p>\n<p><em>* Not literally, of course. I&#8217;m not\u00a0participating! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 18th April 2012, marks 100 days until the opening of the 2012 Olympics Games that are &#8211; of course &#8211; to be held in London! We here at The Guide to Kensington and Chelsea are certainly very excited about this amazing event being held in our very own city and can&#8217;t wait to get caught up in all the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/index.php\/100-days-to-the-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30],"tags":[62,83],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-sport","tag-events","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>100 Days to the Olympics! - The Guide to Kensington &amp; Chelsea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/index.php\/100-days-to-the-olympics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"100 Days to the Olympics! - The Guide to Kensington &amp; Chelsea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, 18th April 2012, marks 100 days until the opening of the 2012 Olympics Games that are &#8211; of course &#8211; to be held in London! 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