Olympic countdown clock stops 499 days early
It was installed in Trafalgar Square as a countdown to the 2012 London Olympics and was designed as a focus for the build-up to the big event.But the Olympic countdown clock which was due to count down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the the opening ceremony, has stopped… 499 days too early.
A suitably red-faced spokesperson for Omega, the Official Olympic timekeeper, today confirmed a "technical issue" caused the countdown clock to stop only a day after it was unveiled by Lord Coe and London mayor Boris Johnson.
They added Omega are currently trying to work-out what happened and get the 6.5m high and 4 tonnes clock running again. Hopefully they'll get it fixed before the London games are due to begin… if only we knew how long away that was.
Speaking at the official unveiling of of the London 2012 countdown clock, LOCOG Chair Seb Coe said: "The launch of the OMEGA Countdown Clock is an important milestone for any Olympic Games and is something of a tradition within the Olympic Movement.
"It will be a daily and hourly reminder to everyone who visits Trafalgar Square that the countdown to the start of London 2012 has well and truly begun and that the greatest show on earth is soon coming to our country."
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"It will be a daily and hourly reminder to everyone who visits Trafalgar Square that the countdown to the start of London 2012 has well and truly begun and that the greatest show on earth is soon coming to our country."
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