London set to rival Beijing in "own sweet way"

BEIJING (Reuters) - After the firework smoke has cleared and the flame goes out on Beijing's spectacularly successful Olympics on Sunday, all eyes turn to next host city London and the inevitable question "how do they follow that?"
The sheer scale of the Beijing project, from the iconic venues to the armies of smiling volunteers and the clockwork efficiency of the transport network, has left a team of around 100 observers from the London Organizing Committee awe-struck.
LOCOG chairman Sebastian Coe, a veteran of many Olympics as both a world class athlete and sport's administrator, described the initial reaction of many of his team of observers as like young children waking up to see snow for the first time.


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