London Olympic Village unveiled

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LONDON, UK, 12 July 2012 (SOURCE: AFPTV)

SOUNDBITE 1 Boris Johnson, Mayor of London (English, 22 secs):
"We've done everything in our power to welcome the greatest athletes in the world, and to make them feel at home here in London. They can have their nails done, they can have their hair done, they can have...
just about every legal entertainment that London has to offer is here in the Olympic park - shops, restaurants, movies, you name it."

SOUNDBITE 2 Nigel Garfitt, Director of Villages and Games Services, LOCOG (English, 24 secs):
"We're in the main dining hall, which is right at the heart of the village, a very special place. It's where everybody who's staying with us, athletes and their teams, will come and eat. It's pretty huge, so we can seat about five thousand people at any one time, and we'll serve something in excess of about 1.2 million meals over the course of the games."- VAR Olympic rings sculpture in Olympic village

- VAR GVs of Olympic village
- VAR mock-up of athletes' bedroom
- VAR athletes entertainment area- MS Entrance to dining hall
- PAN inside dining hall
- MS dining hall
- MSLondon mayor Boris Johnson eating inside dining hall

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