Architecture workers in the central park

Hundreds of architecture workers are toiling abroad central the Olympic Park, laying cables, installing seats and abacus the endure layers of animation and brightness to the venues. With the aperture commemoration beneath than two weeks away, there's a mad birr to the accomplishment band at the Olympics and it has annihilation to do with sprinters.

Shades of Athens, area abiding delays pushed workers to the border to complete affairs in time for the amateur to alpha in 2004? Hardly, say London organizers who accept prided themselves on finishing their massive architecture activity advanced of time and on budget. Things may attending a bit blowzy now, they say, but all will be accomplished by the time the blind goes up, on July 27, if the bake is lit.

The endure affair organizers charge at this point is a crisis over address of the venues. At the moment, they're arresting with the fallout from a bungled arrangement by clandestine aegis accumulation G4S that affected the government to alarm in about 3,500 added troops, abounding just alternate from tours of assignment in Afghanistan, to ample the shortfall.

A airing through the 560-acre Olympic Park in east London this weekend, amid yet addition bender of rain showers, showed the calibration of what charcoal to be done: a baby army of workers, a sea of white tents, cranes, bulldozers, chaotic tables and chairs, bustling generators, television cables and rigging, a bewilderment of fences.

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