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The following numbers were provided by the Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games before the Olympics. The original estimates (found at the
end) ran in the AJC on January 25, 1996 and are included since some of those
facts were not repeated in the updated numbers provided by ACOG.
The numbers include everything from number of athletes to gallons of
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Fast Facts:
- Dates: July 19 - August 4, 1996
- Cost of the 1996 Olympic Games: $1.9 billion
- Athletes: 10,700
- Countries: 197
- Coaches and Officials: 5,500
- Accredited Media: 15,000
- Photographers: 1,000
- Members of the Olympic Family: 150,000
- Tickets: 11.2 million
- Spectators: 2.5 million
- Visitors to Atlanta: 361,000 daily
- TV audience: 67% of world's population
- Cumulative viewers: 35 billion
- Heads of State: 100+
- Sports: 26
Detailed Facts:
- Percent of delegations that accepted the IOC invitation to participate:
100%
- Delegations: 197
- Number of women who will participate in the Games: 3,779
- Barcelona: 2,708
- Percent increase: 39.55%
- Accredited media: 15,000
- Print and photographic media: 5000 (1000 photographers)
- Broadcast media: 10,000
- Games-time staff: 88,209
- ACOG employees: 1,400
- Volunteers: 42,500
- Contractors: 38,937
- Hourly / temporary / loaned staff: 5,334
- Individual variations of Games staff and volunteer uniforms: 58
- Total number of uniform components: 935,000
- Games sport tickets: 11 million
- Olympic Arts Festival tickets: 1.2 million
- ACOG will provide for athletes for training and competition:
- Basketballs: 500
- Baseballs: 2,500
- Handballs: 496
- Soccer balls: 750
- Softballs: 1,200
- Table tennis balls: 3,600
- Tennis balls: 38,400
- Volleyballs: 750
- Water polo balls: 300
- Demonstration sports to be held during the Games: zero
- Seats in the Olympic Stadium: 83,100
- Temporary seats to be employed at Olympic venues: 186,000
- Trips ACOG staff will make to Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport
during the Games: 100,000
- Venue medical aid stations that ACOG's medical team will staff: 121
- Samples to be collected by ACOG's doping control staff as specified
by the IOC Medical Commission: 2,000
- Trash that ACOG will dispose of and recycle: 10,000 tons
- Portable comfort stations at Olympic venues: 1,800
- Public information booths at Olympic venues: 21
- ACOG language service agents who will facilitate conversation at Olympic
venues: 1,500
- Words ACOG language services will have translated by Games end:12 million
- Trees that will beautify the landscape surrounding Olympic venues:1,500
- Magnolias: 45
- Oaks:455
- Crape Myrtle: 1,000
- Wildflowers planted at Olympic venues: 1.5 million square feet
- Generator systems that will provide supplemental electricity to Games
venues: 62
- Air-conditioning units at Olympic venues: 850
- Amount of storage space used to assemble and store sport and technology
equipment, furniture and general commodities used to stage the Games: 1
million square feet
- Tents to be used during the Games: 1,400
- Space tents will provide: 1 million square feet
- Trailers used for office space at Olympic venues: 500
- Ice provided by ACOG to cool drinks, athletes and horses: 21 million
pounds
- Meals estimated to be served at Games venues: 33 million
- Eggs: 3.6 million
- Milk: 100,000 gallons
- Fruit: 1.5 million pounds
- Hot dogs: 1.2 million
- Beef: 750,000 pounds
- Barbecue pork sandwiches: 93,000
- Food the Atlanta Community Food Bank will receive from Olympic venues
to distribute to needy people throughout northeast Georgia: 250,000 pounds
- Athletes and officials who will reside in the Olympic Village: 15,000
- Rooms to be cleaned in the Olympic Village: 140,580
- Laundry ACOG will wash: 1.6 million pounds
- Meals ACOG will prepare daily in the Olympic Village: 60,000
- 12 oz. cans of soft drinks: 2 million
- Napkins: 3.5 million
- Loaves of bread: 40,000
- Aluminum foil: 19 miles
- Apples: 950,000
- Cheese: 70,000 pounds
- Garlic: 200 pounds
- Bean sprouts: 2,800 pounds
- Peaches: 400,000
- Watermelon: 662
- Barbecue sauce: 450 gallons
- Grits: 3,060 pounds
- Vidalia onions: 31,500 pounds
- Collard greens: 8,000 pounds
- Calories the average Olympic athlete consumes in a day: approximately
8,000
- Info '96 terminals for the Olympic Family: 1,800
- Olympic medalists listed in Info '96: 21,800
- Desktop laser printers ACOG will employ during the Games: 1,000
- Telephones: 13,000
- Television sets: 11,500
- Pagers: 6,000
- Computers: 6,000 palmtop, laptop and desktop
- ACOG Web site "hits" expected during the Games per day: 10
million
- "Hits" for the first week of March 1996: 98,000
- Phone calls ACOG expects to receive daily during the Games: 10,000
- Cable installations to be made before Games-time: 80,000
- Cable in the International Broadcast Center: 500 miles
- Live coverage available to rights-holding broadcasters: 300 hours
- Cameras used by Atlanta Olympic Broadcasting: 500
- Countries broadcasting the Games: 170
- Torchbearers who will carry the Olympic Flame on its journey through
the U.S.: 10,000
- Miles torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame: 15,000
- Days the Olympic Torch Relay will take to cross the United States:
84
- Percent of the U.S. population who will be within a two-hour drive
of the Olympic Flame: 90%
- Games-time merchandise locations: 250
- T-shirts to sell: 1 million
- Lapel pins: 2 million
- Hats: 500,000
- Vendors ACOG will have worked with before Games end: 12,916
- Olympic license plates purchased by the citizens of Georgia: 1 million
- Buses and other vehicles utilized to transport spectators, staff, media
and other Olympic Family members during the Games: 5,400
- Parking cones that will be positioned to help direct traffic at parking
lots surrounding venues: 20,000
- Copies of the Official Guide to the Games: 1.2 million
- Official 1996 Olympic Games maps to be distributed to Olympic spectators:
5 million
- Curriculum Guides ACOG produced for elementary and middle school children
across Georgia: 40,000
- Victory certificates that will be presented -- and hand-calligraphied
-- to athletes who place first through eighth: 11,000
- Issues of the ACOG daily newspaper for the Olympic Village: 31
- Copies of the daily spectator programs created by ACOG: 1.4 million
- Different versions of the programs: 167
- Posters produced by ACOG: 300,000
- Number of unique poster designs: 53
- Copies of the Olympic Arts Festival playbills -- versions for music,
theater and dance -- that will be distributed to festival patrons: 155,000
- Performers in Olympic Arts Festival: 3,000
- Olympic Cauldron weighs: 72 tons
- Space Centennial Collectibles will occupy in the Atlanta Merchandise
Mart: 100,000 square feet
- Musicians, singers, dancers and craftspeople who will be part of the
Southern Crossroads festival in Centennial Olympic Park: 750
- Engraved bricks in Centennial Olympic Park to be installed before the
Games: 313,000
- People who will perform on July 19th for Opening Ceremony and again
on August 4th for Closing Ceremony: 7,000
- Hours IZZY will entertain Olympic guests during the 1996 Centennial
Olympic Games: 340
- Pieces of mail IZZY has received from children: 300,000
- Delegates who will have student representatives at the Centennial Olympic
Games Youth Camp: 148
- Youth attending the camp: 500
- Volunteer Georgia quilters who created the 394 gift quilts that will
be given to each National Olympic Committee and flagbearer: 2,000
- Hotel rooms available within a 55-mile radius of the Olympic Center
in downtown Atlanta: 55,000
Original Estimates:
The 1996 Olympics by the numbers
Published in The Atlanta Constitution, January 26, 1996, p. E2.
Who's coming to the Games
Nearly 1.5 million people are expected to attend the Atlanta Olympics during
the 17 days of the Games, according to the most recent estimates by Games
organizers. Some visitors will stay for just a couple of days and others
will stay for the duration. The average stay of an out-of-state visitor
will be five days.
Georgians attending the Games |
672,742 |
Visitors from other states with tickets |
452,404 |
Visitors from other states without tickets |
150,801 |
Sponsors |
67,894 |
Foreign spectators |
65,000 |
Olympic family * |
35,500 |
Broadcasters |
20,543 |
Athletes and officials |
16,500 |
Yachting spectators |
10,000 |
Total |
1,491,384 |
Where will they stay?
About 60 percent of out-of-state visitors will stay in paid accommodations,
and 35 percent will stay with friends or relatives. About 5 percent will
stay at campgrounds or in motor homes.
How much will they spend?
Visitors from other states will spend an average of about $170 a person
for every day of their stay. For a family of four, that's about $680 a day.
|
Daily Amount Per Visitor |
Lodging |
$70.00 |
Restaurant |
44.46 |
Retail |
26.25 |
Local Transportation |
8.27 |
Entertainment |
8.03 |
Other |
11.25 |
Total |
$168.26 |
How many tickets will they buy?
Metro Atlantans |
796,068 |
Other Georgians |
670,460 |
Out-of-state visitors |
2,714,423 |
Others |
1,501,759 |
Total |
5,682,710 |
What will be the busiest day in the Olympic Ring?
Friday, Aug. 2: 550,000 people are expected to converge on downtown. That's
four to five times the number of people downtown on a normal day. Among
other events, final competitions in track, volleyball and diving will be
held.
* Includes members of the IOC, international sports federations, technical
staffs and national Olympic committees, representatives of future Games
and other VIPs, news media, out-of-state security forces and vendors and
contractors.
Sources: Selig Center for Economic Growth, University of Georgia; IRE
Advisors; ACOG.
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