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London's Olympic Park is nearly finished!

It's only 500 days until competition begins in the London 2012 Olympics. In preparation for the games, there has been huge redevelopment in East London. This includes building the largest urban park in Europe for 150 years.

If you go down to East London today, you’ll notice atransformation. Three years ago, this area of Stratford was anurban wasteland.

500 days to go, and London's Olympic Park is taking shape. Thevelodrome is finished, they're tiling the diving pool, and the stadium seats are in and covered up to protect them from the London weather.

At its heart are more than five miles of newly opened waterways. These used to be big, industrial canals, and then they fell into disrepair.

London Olympic Park in Future

But they run almost like arteries across the whole Olympic site. The stadium there sits on an island, completely surrounded by water, and what's fantastic is to see them coming back to life. So often, water in London is used and abused, and this – it's being cherished.

When the diggers have gone, there'll be a new urban park here in Stratford – the biggest to be built in Europe for 150 years. A quarter of a million new wetland plants have gone in, and 4,000 new trees.

Watch in details what the Olympic Park is now and how it's going to look like