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LONDON (AP)—The light towers are in place atop the Olympic Stadium. The diving
pool is filled with water. The athletes’ village is expanding daily.
With less than 2 1/2 years until the opening ceremony, the Olympic Park is
rapidly taking shape for the 2012 London Games.
A bus tour of the 500-acre site on Friday revealed steady and visible
progress in turning a once-unused swath of east London into the centerpiece
complex for the Olympics, as well as a new city neighborhood after the games.
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By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer
LONDON(AP)—The light towers are in place atop the Olympic Stadium. The diving pool is filled with water. The athletes’ village is expanding daily.
With less than 2 1/2 years until the opening ceremony, the Olympic Park is rapidly taking shape for the 2012 London Games.
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Olympic Stadium lights up progress
26 Mar 2010The Olympic Stadium hits full height as lights are lifted into place.
The Olympic Stadium's 14 lighting towers have been lifted into place.
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WHISTLER ' Italy clinched gold Sunday as Francesca Porcellato beat the Ukraine's Olena Iurkovska across the finish line in the women's one-kilometre sprint.
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WHISTLER ' Japan's Nitto Yohihiro grabbed the gold Sunday in the men's one-kilometre standing race, leaving the silver for Russia's Kirill Mikhaylov and the bronze for Ilkka Tuomisto, of Finland.
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Olympic Park bridge lifted into place
19 Mar 2010The main footbridge in the centre of the Olympic Park has been lifted into place. It
crosses the River Lea and is a focal point between the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre.
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London 2012 Olympic Stadium reaches full height
05 Mar 2010The first of the Olympic Stadium’s lighting towers has been successfully lifted into place, taking the venue to its full height – 60m above the field of play.
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WHISTLER (Reuters) - Austria looked to reigning champion Benjamin Raich on Saturday to grab a medal in the final slalom and stave off their worst Olympic performance for 74 years in men's Alpine skiing.
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Raich was third after a first run in atrocious conditions, 0.54 seconds behind Italian leader Giuliano Razzoli, with several leading contenders skiing out in the darkening gloom and sleet.
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VANCOUVER - Joannie Rochette skated to the music from Samson and Delilah, a Herculean tale of triumph and tragedy, but the story was all hers, its most poignant final line mercifully carved into a piece of bronze.
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