BMW is to supply 4,000 cars and bikes for the London Olympics in 2012 after paying £40M for the privilege.
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Athletes, officials and Games staff will be able to whip around town in anything from sports limos and Minis to motorbikes.
On the Olympics site itself, bikes are the way organisers want things to go, part of the plan to cut down the 2012 Games’ carbon footprint.
“BMW bicycles will be available for use by athletes in the Athletes Village and by London 2012 staff,” said a BMW spokesperson, who also came out with the controversial-sounding idea that:
“BMW motorcycles will also be used in certain Olympic and Paralympic events.”
That’s one way to beat Usain Bolt, but it’s not clear that screeching down the track on a S1000RR is strictly within the rules.
