CNN's John Vause takes us inside the centerpiece of the Bejing Summer Olympic Games, the Olympic stadium. This is the centerpiece for Beijing' Games, officially it's called the national stadium. It's better known as the "Bird's Nest" because that ivon on guard design and interovern steel be on the outside and untill now that overn has been able to see. Inside here, 91 thousand people are expected to gether for the opening and closing ceremonies as well as tracks and field competition and also the soccer finals.
There is still some last -minute work going on here but now construction of all Olympic venues is complete. Most of them finished well ahead of time. It took over just four years and about 400 million US dollars to build this stadium. And architects say the same project to the US or Europe would have cost many times more and taken a lot longer, but here in China a cheap pull of labor one stage of many a thousand workers kept cost down and kept construction on an almost nonstopped seven -day week timetable.
The regional plan here has an attractable roof that was scraped because of cost. So some concern that might rain during the opening ceremony but a big concern for Games organizers is just who will be sitting up there on the second level. That's the area which would have been reserved for world-leaders and heads of states, some have said they won't be coming, others have said they are checking their diary .
Now once the Olympics are finished ,the designer say they hope the stadium would become an icon for Beijing, much like they say Towe is to Eiffel Paris.
John Vause CNN Beijing.
