Prime Minister lights up Olympic Stadium for the first time
Local school children join PM for milestone moment on 2012 day.
皇冠体育app Prime Minister, , and local school children from the听five 2012听host boroughs visited the Olympic Stadium on Monday 20 December (20/12, or听2012 day) to officially turn on the flagship venue鈥檚 floodlights for the first time.
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Major milestone
A 1,000-strong audience of Olympic Park workforce, local community and schoolchildren, joined Seb Coe and Boris Johnson to watch the Stadium light up.
皇冠体育app event was a major milestone for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic project. 皇冠体育appre are more than 532 individual floodlights housed in 15 towers suspended 70 meters above the field of play, all helping to ensure听that the sporting action is illuminated and听meets high definition TV standards.
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