Tomorrow London will mark 100 days until the Olympic opening ceremony. Here, Susannah Butter takes you through the facts and stats of the Games.

1) The busiest day of the games is predicted to be August 3. Up to five million journeys will be made on the Tube, compared with the usual 3.5 million.

2) 14 million meals will be served.

3) There are 10.8 million ticket holders to the Olympicds and Paralympics.

4) Free drinking water will be available at all venues.

5) There will be 304 events.

6) 75 per cent of all tickets cost less than £50.

7) More than 200 buildings were demolished to accommodate the Olympic Park.

8) The nearest stations to the Olympic Park are Stratford and West Ham.

9) Walking tours of the Olympic Park take place daily at 11am and 2pm and cost £9. toursof2012sites.com

10) 2.8 million people from the UK construction industry built the venues.

11) It’s a 40-minute cycle ride from central London to the Olympic site.

12) Organisers spent £10 million improving cycling routes in London.

13) Dinah Gould, from Kenton, north-west London, will be 100 when she carries the Olympic flame, making her the oldest torchbearer. The youngest is 11-year-old Dominic Macgowan.

14) 80 per cent of athletes will take less than 20 minutes to travel to their event.

15) The Park has more than 120,000 plants, with 250 different species.

16) Gold medals haven’t been pure gold since the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Now they are gold-plated silver.

17) Spectators should arrive at the Olympic Park two-and-a-half hours before their event starts in order to get through security.

18) The only branded products on site will be Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Cadbury.

19) There are 2,000 trees in the park.

20) At the 1900 Paris Olympics the winners received paintings instead of gold medals because the French believed they were more valuable.

21) The best buses to get from central London to the Olympic site are the 25, 279 and 425.

22) The Torch Relay song has been recorded by rapper Tinchy Stryder.

23) Main roads in the West End will be closed during the men’s and women’s marathons on August 5 and 12.

24) General admission tickets to the Park will go on sale from the end of April.

25) One soft bag is allowed per person (max. 25 litres). It must be small enough to fit under your seat.

26) Rainwater collected from the handball arena’s roof will be used to flush lavatories and reduce water usage by 40 per cent.

27) The games will be broadcast on 22 big screens across the UK. london2012.com/live-sites

28) Sunday trading restrictions will be suspended for eight weeks from July 22.

29) McDonald’s biggest of four restaurants in the park will be 30,000 sq ft and seat 1,500 customers — its largest outlet in the world.

30) There will be no spectator parking at any of the venues, except for disabled spectators who must book at london2012.com

31) The oldest person in this year’s Olympics is 70-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu, who has qualified for Japan’s equestrian team.

32) Ticketholders will receive a Games Travelcard giving them free travel within Zones 1-9, valid for the day of their visit.

33) For 80 per cent of its 70-day journey across Britain, the Olympic torch will be driven in a security van rather than carried on foot.

34) The Olympic Village has capacity for 17,000 people.

35) The London Philharmonic Orchestra has recorded the national anthems of all 205 nations.

36) Anyone streaking at the Games will be fined up to £20,000.

37) TfL advises anyone using the Tube to avoid stations near the Olympic venues.

38) London also hosted the Olympics in 1908 and 1948.

39) This year’s Games will be the single largest movement of people after the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

40) The Olympic stadium holds 80,000 people.

41) Salaries for security guards, construction workers and IT professionals working at the Games are 38 per cent above the national average for their professions.

42) The temperature of an Olympic pool is kept at 25-28C.

43) 8,000 Barclays Cycle Hire bikes will be available from 14,400 docking points across London.

44) On main roads between venues special “Games Lanes” will be set aside for use by athletes, officials, marketing partners and emergency vehicles.

45) Chobham Academy, a school for 1,800 pupils aged 3-19 in the Olympic village, will open in September 2013.

46) The Olympic torch will go to within an hour’s travel of 95 per cent of the UK population.

47) Golf has featured only twice in the history of the Olympics: at Paris in 1900, where American Charles Sands won gold and also competed in the tennis event, and St Louis in 1904. It is set to make a comeback at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games.

48) Athletes can move into their Olympic Village apartments on July 15.

49) Foreign Olympic athletes and coaches have restricted visas and will not be allowed to marry or form civil partnerships while on British soil for the Games.

50) The earliest events are scheduled to begin at 9am and the latest to finish at 11pm.

51) 200,000 people will work at the Olympics.

52) Coca-Cola, which has been sponsoring the games since Amsterdam 1928, plans to serve 23 million drinks at the Games.

53) The 250-hectare Olympic Park is Britain’s largest new urban park for more than a century.

54) Fran Halsall, 21, is the only British female swimmer to have qualified for five events at the Games — the 50m and 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly and two relays. No one has ever won gold in all five events.

55) Film director Danny Boyle is overseeing the opening and closing ceremonies.

56) The London 1948 games were the first to be shown on British television.

57) There are 32 Olympic venues across the country.

58) The 1908 London Olympics was the longest Games. So many different events were scheduled that it lasted 187 days.

59) Britain won its most medals — 47 — in Beijing in 2008.

60) American swimmer Michael Phelps is the most successful Olympian of all time with 16 medals, 14 of them gold.

61) The oldest Olympian ever was Oscar Swahn, who competed for Sweden in shooting at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics aged 72.

62) It has been widely reported that Mahatma Ghandi covered the 1932 Olympics as a newspaper journalist. Then again, other reports suggest he was in prison in India through much of 1932 so perhaps he wasn’t at the LA Games.

63) 19,000 litres of paint were used to paint the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower.

64) After the Olympics, the 2,818 houses and flats in the village will become housing that Locog says will be affordable.

65) Locog is providing 150,000 condoms for athletes in the Olympic village. Two years ago in Beijing, 100,000 condoms were provided.

66) The shopping list to feed athletes and visitors to the London Olympic Village during the Games includes 25,000 loaves of bread, 232 tonnes of potatoes and 21 tonnes of cheese.

67) The USA has won more medals since the Olympics began than any other country. It has won 2,549.

68) Only five athletes have ever won medals in both the Summer and Winter Games. None of them are British.

69) The 377ft tall ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower, opening on July 27, is Britain’s tallest sculpture. It can accommodate 5,000 visitors a day who can take a lift to the viewing platform at the top. There are 455 steps for those who want to walk down.

70) To accommodate the size of the athletes, all doors in the basketball arena are required to be at least 2.4 metres high.

71) There are 362 toilet blocks in the Olympic park.

72) 16 feathers are used to make a badminton shuttlecock, and the best shuttles are made using feathers from the left wing of a goose.

73) The 500 Coca-Cola employees at the Games will be expected to lift 100 cases of bottles each day.

74) Nearly 15,000 athletes will take part in the Games.

75) Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has written a specially commissioned London 2012 poem, Eton Manor, which she read out in March at the sports club that inspired the poem.

76) There will be more than 800 victory ceremonies for medals to be presented.

77) 700 bird and bat boxes are being installed across the Olympic Park to encourage rare species into the area.

78) Tube bosses predict a 45 per cent rise in Jubilee line passengers during the Games.

79) There are 1,000 picnic benches in the Olympic Park.

80) Four skeletons dating from a prehistoric settlement were discovered on the aquatic site.

81) Ticket sales have raised £527 million so far.

82) In 1932 there was a greyhound racing stadium on the site of the Olympic Park.

83) More than one million pieces of sports equipment will be used at the games and donated to charity afterwards, including 541 lifejackets and 356 pairs of boxing gloves.

84) French athlete Christophe Lemaitre is the only white man to have run 100 metres in under 10 seconds.

85) The first published use of the word Olympian in the English language was in 1590, in William Shakespeare’s Henry VI.

86) The three-hour opening ceremony on July 27 is expected to attract even more than the one billion viewers who watched the opening at Beijing 2008.

87) The Olympic kit, designed by Stella McCartney and worn by basketballer Drew Sullivan, features 590 items suited to 46 sporting activities. Prices from £212 for trainers to £5 for a wristband.

88) Women first competed in the Olympics at the 1900 Paris games, in croquet, tennis, sailing, golf and equestrian events.

89) During the Depression, to save on ammunition, the shooting events were timed to coincide with the beginning of races in track and field.

90) The Olympic rings logo was designed by French historian Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Each ring represents a continent. Every national flag in the world includes one of the five colours.

91) At 35 metres high, the basketball arena is as tall as the Tate Modern.

92) Denis Clayton, an 82-year-old retired bricklayer from Cheshire, has been to every Olympics since 1960 but has no tickets to London 2012.

93) A London 2012 baseball cap costs £10.

94) Artist Martin Creed has organised for all the bells in the country to be rung for three minutes on the first day of the Olympics.

95) Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei have never sent a female athlete to an Olympics.

96) Long jumper Mary Rand became the first British woman to win an athletics title at the 1964 games. She was 24.

97) The first Olympic drug suspension was at the Mexico City games in 1968, when a Swedish pentathlete tested positive for alcohol.

98) At 1.36m, Chinese gymnast Lu Li was the smallest person ever to compete in the games. She won a gold medal for her bar routine in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

99) Poodle-clipping was an Olympic sport in the 1900 Paris Games.

100) Students from the Royal College of Art have designed the podium for the Victory Ceremonies.

Research by Susannah Butter