2008 milestones2008 milestones
In December 2008 London 2012 released a video showing the highlights of the year.
David Higgins - ODA Chief Executive: Well, the big thing about the milestones to Bejing was to take a very complex, detailed programme and turn them into something that everyone could be motivated, that we could communicate with the general public and so that's what we came up with a series of major milestones, and yes I believe we've achieved them.
Well, on demolish, we've demolished 220 buildings on the site. On dig, we've excavated over a million tons of material to allow us starting on the major venues such as the Stadium and Aquatics Centre, and on design we're well advanced on the design of the major venues so we have planning approval on a number of those already, so much of our work is achieved in that area.
John Armitt - ODA Chairman: Well in construction terms, the building of the two six kilometre tunnels for the overhead cables, getting those underground. Two hundred kilometres of new cable put in those tunnels on time and on budget. That's a great achievement! It means that the 52 pylons on this site come down and that frees the whole site up, and that's a great achievement on this, to clear this site for the future.
Seb Coe - LOCOG Chair: We're all one team here, and it is absolutely essential that the team that are out there, delivering on a day-to-day basis in a very complex, very challenging site are safe.
Tessa Jowell - Olympics Minister: Our transport plans for the Games is now seen as one of the great strengths of London 2012.
Denis Oswald - IOC Coordination Commission Chairman: One day you see something coming out of the ground, and you see something concrete and you realise the Games are taking shape.
Prime Minister - Gordon Brown: I believe we're going to have a legacy here. Not just for the Olympic movement, but a legacy for our whole country where a Stadium built, used for the Olympics will then be used in a modern way for the community and for all the local people afterwards.
Seb Coe - LOCOG Chair: Seventy-five pence of everything that you see out there in every pound is regeneration.
Tessa Jowell - Olympics Minister: The whole purpose of the Olympics is to engage young people across the country in a whole variety of different ways and make them feel that they belong.
