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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/olympic-venue-sparkles-under-lights.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The Olympic Stadium floodlights are officially switched on by Prime Minister David Cameron" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-olympic-venue-sparkles-under-lights.jpg" alt="The Olympic Stadium floodlights are officially switched on by Prime Minister David Cameron"/></a></p>
<p>The snow-covered Olympic Stadium has sparkled under floodlights for the first time.</p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron, accompanied by a choir of local schoolchildren, hit the button for the big switch-on which shone a megawatt of light on to the showpiece venue.</p>
<p>It was the first time that all 532 bulbs had been lit together &#8211; in a scene that will be repeated during the London 2012 Games.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron joked that the £537 million stadium in Stratford, east London, looked more like a winter Olympic venue with ski-jumper Eddie the Eagle expected at any moment rather than the setting for the London 2012 summer Games.</p>
<p>But he told the 400-strong invited crowd, which included 2012 builders at the site: &#8220;It is being delivered on time and on budget thanks to British genius and many of the people here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Introductions were carried out by London Mayor Boris Johnson, who did not seem aware that the lights take up to eight minutes to reach full power.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are coming, they are coming,&#8221; Mr Johnson told the crowd before all the lights had phased in.</p>
<p>He described it as a &#8220;wonderful and historic evening&#8221;, while also joking that with plans so advanced, including 75% of building work complete, London 2012 might consider holding a snap Olympics now 17 months before the Games &#8220;to catch the world napping&#8221;.</p>
<p>There are 14 lighting towers reaching 70 metres (230ft) above the sports area. They are supporting a total of 532 individual lights.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron also spoke of changes to unpopular plans to cut £162 million from school sport.</p>
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