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Mission control: the Atos technology that will run the London 2012 Olympic Games venues. Image by Locog

Game on! London 2012’s technology hub ready for action

29 March 2012

by Richard Maino, London Press Service

They call it Mission Control. And with many banks of state-of-the-art computer screens, the London 2012 technology hub certainly gives a space-age impression that all systems “are green for go”.

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