While venue staff and hopeful athletes prepare, politicians including the Mayor of London and the Olympics Minister start an appeal for 70,000 volunteers for the London 2012 Olympic Games
The Olympic Park itself will house the main stadium, designed by Philip Johnson, which will seat 80,000 spectators and kicks off 17 days of sport around the various Olympic sites
Meanwhile, inside the Velodrome, the first new facility expected to be completed, the Mayor of London tries out a temporary circuit on Sir Chris Hoy's bicycle before the Siberian pine track is built
Sir Chris, four-time Olympic gold medallist, shows how it should be done and says that the London games are now a step closer to reality, having also voiced concerns about potential cuts in funding for Olympic sports
The VeloPark will house both the BMX and Olympic / Paralympic track cycling competitions, with a glass wall between the seating tiers to allow a 360-degree view of the Olympic Park
Stockport's own retired NBA star John Amaechi is on hand to dunk the first ball at the Basketball Arena, a temporary 12,500-seater stadium that will be flat-packed after the games and auctioned
Olympic sprinting legend Michael Johnson christens the main stadium with a first run with his loss to local schoolchildren prompting Boris Johnson to extoll "the latent talent in Hackney"
The upper tier of the stadium seating, like the track laid for Johnson, is removable, allowing the site to switch between 80,000 and 25,000 capacity, accessed by five bridges to the island it sits on
The 1996 gold medallist spoke to the world's media about the rising excitement around the London site and the fantastic opportunity for people to be involved in the Games
Workers are allowed to down tools to watch Johnsons Michael and Boris, with the Mayor joking that the progress was so far ahead of schedule he would call a snap Olympics in 2011 to catch the World napping
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