altJANUARY 26 - SEBASTIAN COE, the chairman of London 2012, today predicted the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be a "fantastic" event.

 

Speaking a the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Coe said:  "It is going to be a fantastic games.

 

"We all are very excited about it.

"Prime Minister Gordon Brown had just returned from Beijing and he was very excited by what he saw in Beijing..

Speaking of Beijing 's preparations for the August Olympic Games, Coe said it has done it very successfully "both in infrastructure and the response to being the host city of an Olympic Games".

In particular, he said the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) had done "a first-rate job" in working out Olympic cultural and educational programmes.

Once the Beijing Games are over, London will be immediately in the spotlight.

 

Coe said: "We are on schedule with our construction programmes."