London 2012

Delivering a vision

Published 10 July 2012

David Luckes, who studied for his masters degree at the University of Brighton, was one of the original team behind London's successful bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. He worked with Simon Clegg on the Olympic bid project for five years. David, a logistics expert, produced the document which assessed London’s feasibility as a host city in 2000. The feasibility study ran to 395 pages, 167,000 words.

A former British Olympic hockey player, who represented Great Britain in hockey in three consecutive games in 1992, 1996 and 2000, David is now head of sport competition at the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) and has received an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in recognition of his services to the London 2012 Games.

Luckes said: “I feel greatly honoured to receive this MBE. The success of London’s bid was the result of a whole team of people and I thank them for their hard work and support.

“We are now working to make sure we deliver everything we promised in Singapore, to stage the best-ever Games, capturing the imagination of young people around the world and leaving a lasting legacy.”

In recent weeks, David has been busy organising the test events in preparation for the games as part of the London Prepares series. This has included beach volleyball at Horse Guards Parade, hockey at the Riverbank Arena, events at Lee Valley White Water Centre, gymnastics, archery, mountain biking and the list goes on...