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21 December 2010
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Olympic stadium lights switch on
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Prime Minister David Cameron and London Mayor Boris Johnson have performed the official switch on of the 2012 Olympic Stadium lights
They were joined by children from Carpenters Primary School in Stratford, east London, and workers at the site
There are 14 lighting towers reaching 70m (230ft) above the sports area and they support a total of 532 individual lights. They will be dismantled after the Games.
Construction is due to be finished by next summer, to allow for 12 months of testing ahead of the opening ceremony in July 2012.
Mr Johnson said it was "an historic evening" and urged people to focus on the Olympics and forget the World Cup "bitterness".
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