London: The
stage is set and the athletes are primed as the seven-year countdown
to the London 2012 Olympics reaches its finale with Friday's
much-anticipated opening ceremony.
The three-hour spectacle, expected to be watched by a global
television audience of up to one billion, will mark the beginning of 17 days of athletic endeavour which will
create heroes, shatter dreams and fire national pride.
But London is preparing for its own intense examination as
questions over the city's creaking transport system and the
ever-present security threat hang over the event, ready to overshadow
on-track achievements.
Prime Minister David Cameron insisted on Thursday that Britain
would deliver a memorable Games after US presidential hopeful Mitt
Romney backtracked on barbed comments he made about the preparations.
The Republican hopeful, in London to attend Friday's opening, said
the build-up had been "disconcerting", pointing to the
failure of a private security contractor to provide the number of
guards it had promised.
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