I attended the Olympic Park yesterday (Tuesday) for the morning athletics and the afternoon basketball.
Having read various posts, I was concerned about taking my 7D and both 24-105 and 100-400 lenses. I had even checked out Liverpool St Station's ability to hold luggage, as this would have been the fall-back position had security stopped me.
I needn't have bothered !
Security consisted of removing all metal objects from your person and putting them, together with any bags, through the x-ray machine.
I was carrying the 7D with 24-105 lens mounted, and had the 100-400 in its own carrying case, inside my back pack.
My bag was just exiting the x-ray machine when my heart missed a beat as I watched 3 officers looking at the x-ray screen.
When an officer said he wanted to look inside my bag, I thought that it :shake:
He went straight for the 100-400, and opened the case. The guy in charge then said to the officer, "no, you're looking for an aerosol, not a lens."
After a little confusion, the officer dealing with me was happy that the 200ml bottle in my bag was only sun cream. The aerosol was in my partners bag that followed mine through the scanner, and obviously was the bag shown on the screen, but nobody said a word to her !
The feeling inside when you first see the cauldron and the running track inside stadium is just magic.
If you can beg, borrow
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, or
tickets for the stadium, I really encourage you to go !