LONDON (AP) — The lights have been turned on for the first time at London’s 2012 Olympic Stadium.
British Prime Minister David Cameron pushed a button that switched on the towering floodlights over the snow-covered stadium in east London on Monday evening.
London Mayor Boris Johnson, Olympic organizing chief Sebastian Coe and dozens of local schoolchildren were among those attending the ceremony in freezing temperatures inside the mostly empty 80,000-capacity stadium.
Cameron said “the biggest show on earth” will be coming to London in one year, seven months and seven days.
The stadium is to be completed next year. It has 14 light towers reaching 230 feet above the field.
