AND TO TOP IT OFF ...
The roof of the Olympic Stadium slides slowly, slowly into place
The completion of a sports stadium is usually a boring business involving a ribbon, a pair of scissors, maybe a magnum of champagne. But when engineers last week conducted a test of the sliding roof over the 75,000-seat Olympic Stadium in Athens the venue for the opening ceremony on Aug. 13 the event was filled with drama and anxiety. Its outcome would determine whether the architectural centerpiece of the Games would get to wear its Santiago-Calatrava-designed cap or stand roofless under the Mediterranean sun and whether security experts and television crews could move into the stadium in time...
