I did the walk on Saturday. This piece went live yesterday:
On Saturday I did what all self-respecting London Olympics sceptics do: I walked round the site of the Olympic Park adjoining Stratford and pondered the wild folly of it all.There was plenty to confirm my view: the glossy billboard adhered to the wooden perimeter fence explaining at great, resource-consuming length the environment-friendliness of its forthcoming electrified wire successor; the insistence of a guard near the security centre that I cease photographing the images of joyful, Olympics-inspired fellow Londoners adorning its surrounds; my calculation that half the 2012 track finals would be easily completed within the space of the few minutes I spent contemplating the fawn moonscape of the site itself, where the stadium will take the best part of four years to build.
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