Where Is The Aquapark In London?

London's Aquapark, or 'Aquatic Centre', does not yet exist but is already planned as a key facility for the 2012 Olympic games, which London will host. The Aquatic Centre is designed as a 20,000-seater state of the art swimming competition venue. It will contain two 50m swimming pools and a 25m diving pool and will stage swimming, diving, synchronised swimming, the water polo finals and the modern pentathlon swimming. It will be situated in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London. This futuristic Olympic Park will also contain the main athletics stadium, the athletes' village and other arenas. The Aquatic Centre has been designed by architect Zaha Hadid and is budgeted to cost �75 million, although there are concerns it will run considerably over-budget.

London was awarded the 2012 Olympics in July 2005 after beating off a strong challenge from Paris. Madrid, New York and Moscow had also bid to host these games.

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