London keeps pledge to avoid white elephant

Five months after the London Olympic Park closed to the public, 1,000 construction workers are toiling to transform it into an entirely new neighborhood of the British capital.

Within a few years, the park in east London will be home to apartments, schools and wide green spaces, studded with the sports venues that have been scaled down since the Olympics and Paralympics.

Reporters given a rare post-Games tour of the site last month saw the distinctive temporary stands at the Aquatics Centre being dismantled and without the appendages, architect Zaha Hadid's "sting-ray" design is slowly emerging.