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Both the mascots came along to the Great Get Together in the park a couple of weeks back - my daughter was equal parts excited and bemused to meet them.
Pity this was not a week or two later to catch more of the school holidays. Such a contrast with the crowds at Wimbledon, the Test matches, etc.

Did you have a ticket for the main event too? (I recall you did the stadium tour, but have you been to see West Ham play?)
It's fortunate it's not yet the school holidays, because most of the audience at the afternoon sessions inside the stadium are cheering schoolchildren on an end of term trip.
There is other sporting stuff as well as Wimbledon, Tour de France, Women's Cricket World Cup and the men's series against South Africa, British Grand Prix, Women's Euro are also about to start.

Most people only have so much money to spend, and probably want to hold it back for the school holidays, tickets from £10 are a bargain if you already live in or near London, but not if you take time off work, travel to London, hotel etc.
some people wandering only while many people dying of hungriness ! sad !
I went to the Sunday evening session (on the 16th) and the stadium announcer said we were the largest crowd yet at over 30,000, and we made quite a noise when Jonnie Peacock won a gold medal.

30,000 is a lot of people, but only about half the stadium's capacity. The distribution of the crowd was quite amusing, being fairly full on the half of the stadium furthest from the 100m straight where the cheap seats are, and practically empty on the side adjacent to the 100m straight where the commentary boxes, corporate boxes and expensive* seats are.

*expensive in relative terms, the most expensive Para Athletics tickets seem to be about the same as the cheaper Athletics tickets.

I can sort of understand why they moved the medal ceremonies out of the stadium, as during the Paralympics about half of the time at any of the multi-discipline events (e.g. Athletics, Swimming) were taken up with medal ceremonies, but like DG says I feel sorry for the medallists who end up with a much reduced crowd for their moment of glory.
What's that Skylon type tower in the penultimate photo?

I'm sure that wasn't there on my last visit to the Olympic Park!
@Cornish Cockney - I think you are referring to a wind generator? There's a whole series that have been in the park since 2012 (you can see a second just above the Toyota sign in the same piture). DG's picture makes it look more impressive, but they are actually only 18 metres high.
I was at the Sunday evening session as well - it was noticeable that the allocated tickets in the "fairly full" side seemed to exactly match the line between white/claret/blue seats and grey seats, with the grey seats at the unsold ones.
Wind generator? Or even an electricity generator powered by wind, perhaps.
Athletics (able body or not) poorly supported these days . We don't have the stars like Ovett and Coe that can fill stadiums . Now if Farah had a GB rival ......

Also the spartan image of track and field doesn't interest the kids there's no glamour.
Thanks Tim & Malcolm.
I'm not very observant! Time to get new glasses, methinks!
Went to a event at the Velodrome last Saturday and cycled back to Pudding Mill Lane, the 'tented village' has blocked access to the station and neither guides, security or police knew the way. Found it eventually but it wasn't obvious. No signage from the station, guess the park hopes no one will come this way and only use Stratford, or perhaps Hackney Wick. I'm off to the games this evening perhaps things have changed since I pointed it out to 'noordinarypark' Twitter account.
I'm sure your sharply-targeted tweet will have forced the parkkeepers to make changes to their month-old diversion strategy, Roger.
Surprisingly nothing had changed in the Park; as you can imagine, I was gutted. All the organisers had to do was keep a 3 metre path alongside the new 'tented village' but decided to make people walk hundreds of yards in the wrong direction. Got my free wrap from the Co-op but a long queue stopped a free desert.
The number of people that attend world para athletics and even normal world atheletics is tiny. Couple of thouand for many days in the past if they are lucky. The number of people who have tickets for the Paraathletics this time is more than the previous 8 tournaments PUT TOGETHER.










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