On Saturday morning 22 November we helped the technical team from Olivier Strebelle so they could make a detailed inspection of the statue in the Olympic Green.
Workers were busy covering the bushes they had planted to prepare for the winter. The bushes are obviously a bad idea as they block the view on the lower part, can’t see the feet of the athletes. The bushes will need to be moved once weather permits.
You can see a couple of shots from the “viewing point” where later the big stone will be placed to indicate the exact spot to make the “focal shot” with your camera.
Valerie can be seen with our car, and in deep meditation…
That part of the Olympic Forest was not open to the public yet. Some more cleaning up has to be done to remove (probably – I hope) what is left of the meteorological station. In other areas of the park some temporary structures are still to be removed (you can see the field hockey structure in the background). Also, no any toilets (whatever you want to call this). Unless you take all the trees into consideration.

Once all done the park will be really nice for walking and jogging.
While the weather was nice and the sky seemed blue, pollution was coming up quickly. See the view along the west road with Panggu Plaza – in the smog. API figures for that day were around 100 – the average – but I guess around noon it was far over 100. You can see the dust settling on some of the tubes…