Heading Down The Home Stretch

Coe pleased with where London stands one year out from Summer Games

The '12 London Games will begin one year from today, and organizers are "pleased with what they've done and confident they'll put on a great show," according to a sports section cover story by Traci Watson of USA TODAY. LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe said, "We stand exactly where we want to be. We've met every deadline. ... We're in good shape." Three of the Olympic Park's "five entertainment venues for Olympic competition are done," and the aquatics complex opened today during the official one-year-out ceremony. Former U.K. Minister for the Olympics Tessa Jowell noted that construction is "running ahead of schedule and below" its $13B budget. Watson notes U.K. officials "will discuss few details of their security plans, except to say ...