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London Aquatics Centre provides more than 8000 seats with full views of the 10m platform diving events.

The brief for the building from Locog was to provide 5000 spectator seats with uninterrupted views of the 10m platform diving events. The centre actually provides over 8000 seats with full views of those events. This is more than 3000 (60%) additional seats above the capacity required from the brief. Locog approved the sightline studies and seating layouts over two years ago.  

The Telegraph newspaper confirms the views in the Aquatics Centre from the highest seating in the temporary stands: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/8666731/London-2012-Olympics-exclusive-view-from-the-back-seats-at-Aquatics-Centre.html  

We have learnt that additional seats for the 10m platform events were made available by Locog due to overwhelming popularity.  These additional seats are not part of the over 8000 seats with unrestricted views that the centre provides for the 10m platform events.