The lights were turned on for the first time at London's 2012 Olympic Stadium on Monday. With one year, seven months and eight days remaining until the Games begin, British Prime Minister David Cameron pressed a button that switched on the towering floodlights over the snow-covered stadium in east London. London Mayor Boris Johnson, Olympic organizing chief Sebastian Coe and dozens of local school students were among those attending the ceremony in glacial temperatures inside the mostly empty 80,000-capacity stadium.
The stadium has 14 light towers reaching 70 meters (230 feet) above the field of play, supporting a total of 532 individual lights. The Olympic Delivery Authority also announced that the installation of the spectator seats has been finished and the stadium remains on path to be completed next year.
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