London 2012 progress report: Will Britain deliver on Olympic promises?
Two years from today, the Olympic flame will be lit in a stadium that is now all but finished on a site in east London that is looking more and more as it will in July 2012. This time next year, test events will begin. All of a sudden, there is not much time left.
Despite the worst recession for 70 years, the construction of the venues is on track. "We're in a remarkably good place," said the sports and Olympics minister, Hugh Robertson. "As at today, we are marginally ahead of where we ought to be in construction terms and on budget, which is an extraordinarily good position to be in."
As confidence grows that the London Olympics will avoid an Athens-style meltdown, attention will turn to the operational issues for which the London organising committee (Locog), chaired by Lord Coe, is responsible.