2012 London Olympics Accreditation Pocket Guide
date: label: used date
content: 2012-07-27 to 2012-08-12
name: label: user
content: Lea, Bobby
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Accreditation Pocket Guide booklet issued by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Cover is purple paper. Guide is written in English starting on one side of the booklet and in French starting on the opposite side.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 2012 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad were held in London, England with 204 countries, 5,992 men and 4,776 women athletes participating. With the inclusion of women’s boxing, these Games became the first with female competitors in every sport and the first at which each country entered, had a female representative. Women’s boxing debuted and mixed doubles in tennis was held for the first time since the 1924 Games. American Michael Phelps won his 22nd medal making him the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time. Every athlete to win a medal at these Games was drug tested and as of 2017, 31 medals had been rescinded due to doping. The United States won the medal count with 104.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: referenced; used
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: London, 2012
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0213.04
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0213.04
label: accession number
content: 2012.0213
objectType: label: Object Name
content: booklet, summer olympics
label: Object Name
content: booklet
label: Object Name
content: booklet, summer olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: purple (cover color)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 4 3/16 in; 17.4625 cm x 10.63625 cm