{"id":1693,"date":"2011-10-26T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2011-10-26T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:41:39","slug":"vox-pop-the-2012-olympics-good-for-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/26\/vox-pop-the-2012-olympics-good-for-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Vox pop &#8211; The 2012 Olympics: good for Cardiff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How much will involvement in the 2012 Olympics benefit Cardiff?<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;color: #444444;line-height: 24px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1899\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1899  \" title=\"Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1899  \" title=\"Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/10\/Activevox_4_Stad_big_NR-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Millennium Stadium will host women&#039;s football (photo by Vlad-X7)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They might be named London 2012, but next year\u2019s Olympic Games promise to be a nationwide event. However, will Cardiff\u2019s involvement benefit the capital?<\/p>\n<p>While the quality of training facilities has been much-lauded by Cardiff\u00a0spokespeople, the only event being held in the city is women\u2019s football, in the Millennium Stadium. This will take place two days before the events in London begin, and could mean a chance for Cardiff to be in the international spotlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff will also play host to the Australian and South African Paralympic teams, as well as the Olympic team fromTrinidad and Tobago, who chose the city based on the high quality of its sport science and medical facilities.<\/p>\n<p>But what, if any, impact could this have on Cardiff?<\/p>\n<p>Featured image taken by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/63480207@N02\/\">Vlad-X7<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much will involvement in the 2012 Olympics benefit Cardiff?\u00a0 &nbsp; They might be named London 2012, but next year\u2019s Olympic Games promise to be a nationwide event. However, will Cardiff\u2019s involvement benefit the capital? While the quality of training facilities has been much-lauded by Cardiff\u00a0spokespeople, the only event being held in the city is women\u2019s football, in the Millennium Stadium. This will take place two days before the events in London begin, and could mean a chance for Cardiff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":1849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[700,701],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","category-uncategorized","tag-700","tag-olympics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vox pop - The 2012 Olympics: good for Cardiff? - alt.cardiff<\/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:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/10\/26\/vox-pop-the-2012-olympics-good-for-cardiff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vox pop - The 2012 Olympics: good for Cardiff? - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How much will involvement in the 2012 Olympics benefit Cardiff?\u00a0 &nbsp; They might be named London 2012, but next year\u2019s Olympic Games promise to be a nationwide event. 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