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Trackside frequently asked questions

Q: Why are Trackside competitions open only to Lloyds TSB customers?

At Lloyds TSB, we’re always looking for ways to say ‘thank you’ to our customers, and Trackside is one way in which we are saying a really BIG thank you to all our personal banking customers. 

Q: I have a Lloyds TSB Business Account am I eligible to join Trackside?

You will be able to register for Trackside and will receive information about our London 2012 partnership and community activities, however, only personal banking and general insurance customers of Lloyds TSB are eligible to enter Trackside competitions and offers.  Lloyds TSB Commercial and Lloyds Bank Wholesale Banking and Markets customers can find out more about how they can get involved in our 2012 Partnership at http://www.lloydstsbbusiness.com/london2012/index.html or http://www.lloydsbankwholesale.com/London-2012/.  

Q: How do I become a Lloyds TSB customer?

Find out more about how to switch your bank account or call 0845 3 000 000.

Q: I don’t have an e-mail address. Can I still benefit from Trackside?

Customers of Lloyds TSB personal banking or general insurance will still be able to access much of the Trackside content at www.lloydstsb.com/london2012/. 

Q: I’m not a customer, can I still benefit from Trackside?

You will be able to register for Trackside and will receive information from Lloyds TSB on our London 2012 partnership and activities.

Q: What if I become a customer having already signed up for Trackside?

Your details will be updated at the next available opportunity and you will have full access to the information and benefits of Trackside.

Q: Why are you asking me to give you my post code and date of birth? Will this compromise my account security?

We need your post code, in combination with your name and date of birth to verify that you are a customer of Lloyds TSB personal banking or general insurance. Your account security will not be affected. Lloyds TSB and Trackside will never ask you to enter your Internet Banking details either through an email or text. Lloyds TSB do not ask you to enter any of your security details into a pop-up screen and we will never e-mail you asking for any personal information, PIN numbers or passwords. Please see www.lloydstsb.com for more information and advice on online security.

Q: If I don't register for Trackside, can I still win Games tickets through Lloyds TSB?

If you’re a personal banking or general insurance customer of Lloyds TSB, you will hear about opportunities to win Tickets to the Games and chances to meet Olympians and Paralympians. By entering any of these competitions, you will automatically be signed up for Trackside.

Q: My partner and I are both customers. Can we both join Trackside and enter competitions?

Yes. 

Q: What else is Lloyds TSB doing with London 2012?

Our vision, as a Proud Partner of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is to bring the Games closer to young people, communities and businesses across the UK.

Community is at the heart of our London 2012 activity:

• Lloyds TSB National School Sport Week is a fun week of sport and celebration, offering young people the chance to try new sports and live the values of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

• The Lloyds TSB Local Heroes programme helps some of the most talented emerging athletes in the UK during one of the toughest stages of their sporting careers.

• We are the National Presenting Partner for the Olympic Torch Relay, enabling us to share the inspiration of the Olympic Flame with local communities as it travels through towns and cities and past major landmarks on its route to the Opening Ceremony.

• We’re also the presenting partner for the ticketing journey to London 2012 and we are supporting the London 2012 organisers (LOCOG) to ensure that as many people as possible have the information they require in order to find and buy tickets to the Games.

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Did you know?

  • MUNICH 1972: Mark Spitz won seven gold medals and broke seven world records.
  • PARIS 1900: The first woman to win an Olympic event was England's Charlotte Cooper, who won the tennis singles.
  • 8.8 million tickets will be available for the London 2012 Olympic Games, with another 2 million for the Paralympic Games.
  • ATHENS 2004: The marathon races followed the same route as the 1896 race, beginning in Marathon and ending in Athens' Panathenaic Stadium. Vanderlei de Lima (BRA) was in the lead with less than 7 kilometres to go when he was pushed off the course.
  • Around 900,000 items of sports equipment will be needed for the Olympic Games including 1424 FIFA-approved footballs, 1100 Badminton shuttlecocks and 65,000 towels.
  • 76 – number of lifts in the Olympic Village to ensure the buildings are fully accessible.
  • The London 2012 Olympic Games ticket application process is open from 15 March to 26 April 2011.
  • The London 2012 Olympic Stadium will have an 80,000 seat capacity.
  • Our history with the Olympic Movement dates back to 1948 when Lloyds provided banking facilities to the 1948 Games, the last time they were held in London.
  • Following the London 1948 Olympic Games, Lloyds was given a 1948 Torch thought to have been donated by an employee who ran with it.
  • 11 – number of residential blocks within the Olympic Village, each the size of a football pitch.
  • The dining room in the London Olympic Village will be the size of three football fields and seat 5,000. It will serve an estimated 100 tonnes of meat alone.
  • There are 700 rooms within the Olympic Stadium, including eight changing rooms and four prayer rooms.
  • If all London 2012 sports events were held on consecutive days, there would be 318 competition days for Olympic Games events and another 133 days for the Paralympic Games.
  • BARCELONA 1992: In the women's 100m sprint Merlene Ottey (JAM) finished only six-hundredths of a second behind the winner, Gail Devers (USA), and yet she ended up in only fifth place.
  • 800,000 – the number of people expected to use public transport to travel to the London 2012 Games on the busiest day: about the same number as the combined population of Cardiff and Edinburgh.
  • SYDNEY 2000: Korea (South Korea) and Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) marched together under the same flag.
  • MELBOURNE / STOCKHOLM 1956: To avoid the problem of quarantine for horses, the equestrian events took place in two different cities (Stockholm and Melbourne), and in two different seasons (June and November).
  • SEOUL 1988: South Korea turned democratic in order to welcome the world to the Summer Games.
  • Ancient Olympics: The word gymnasium comes from the Greek root "gymnos" meaning nude (and yes, they did).
  • More than one million people will visit the Olympic Stadium for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
  • 35m – height of the Basketball Arena, the same as London's Tate Modern and the Falkirk Wheel
  • LONDON 1908: The first time a relay was included in the athletics events.
  • TOKYO 1964: The first Fair Play prize awarded to Lars Gunnar Kall and Stig Lennart Kall, who gave up their chances of winning the regatta to help two other competitors whose boat had sunk.
  • The London 2012 Olympic Games will have 300 medal events for 26 Olympic Sports in 34 venues over 17 days of competition.
  • The Olympic Park is the size of 357 football pitches.
  • In 2012 up to 25,000 people could be transported to and from Stratford International Station each hour on the Javelin® train from St Pancras International station, in less than seven minutes.
  • 53m – height of the Olympic Stadium: three metres taller than Nelson’s Column in London's Trafalgar Square.
  • The London 2012 Paralympic Games will award 471 medal events for 20 Paralympic sports in 21 venues over 11 days of competition.
  • 90% - proportion of material reclaimed from demolition within the Olympic Park which can be reused or recycled.
  • There are 26 Olympic sports and 20 Paralympic sports in the London 2012 Games.
  • A ticket application process was announced by LOCOG as a way of ensuring a fairer process in order to make London 2012 everyone’s Games.
  • For London 2012, rail links to the Olympic Park will have capacity to take more than 240,000 people to the Park every hour.

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