Among those getting ready are a total of 70,000 volunteers, already a significant way through the million hours of training they will receive ahead of the eight million hours of volunteering they will deliver.
Over eight million people have said in a recent survey they are getting ready to line the streets and cheer the thousands of community heroes carrying the Olympic Flame around the UK.
In Ireland the Olympic Flame will be carried in Dublin on June 6th and schools are following their sports stars in the lead in to London and finding out about the Olympic Games through school resource materials produced by the Prim-Ed and the OCI.
The Opening Ceremony will be held in the Olympic Stadium on July 27th 2012 and over 10,000 athletes from 200 National Olympic Committees will compete in London.
Spectators are also getting ready: eight million Olympic and Paralympic tickets will be in the hands of sports fans by the summer.
