By Xinhua
Davos : London Olympics chief Sebastian Coe has said he expects the 2008 Beijing Games to be a “fantastic” event.
“It is going to be a fantastic games. We all are very excited about it,” said Coe here Friday. Coe is chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games (LOCOG).
“(British) Prime Minister Gordon Brown had just returned from Beijing and he was very excited by what he saw in Beijing,” two-time Olympic champion Coe told Xinhua at the World Economic Forum annual meeting.
Speaking of Beijing’s preparations for the August Olympic Games, Coe said it has done it very successfully “both in infrastructure and the response to being the host city of an Olympic Games”.
In particular, he said the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) had done “a first-rate job” in working out Olympic cultural and educational programmes.
Once the Beijing Games are over, London will be immediately in the spotlight. “We are on schedule with our construction programmes.”