He presented public buildings to very many of the cities of Greece, but particularly to his native city, Athens, where he built the Odeum on the SE slope of the Acropolis and rebuilt the Stadium, using Pentelic marble.
Mitsubishi was building the stadium's retractable roof, using a crane and a crew leased from Lampson.
The flame was taken to the BBC's White City building, which is on the site of the stadium used for the 1908 Olympics.
Two workers died while building the stadium.
Mitsubishi was building the stadium's retractable roof.
Even the construction workers building the stadium may well have been drawn from other tasks.
Odebrecht, the firm building the stadium, is one of the world's foremost construction companies.
For Brazil, the cost of building the stadiums alone was around £2.5bn, mainly from public money.
China's 'Stadium Diplomacy' is already an example of cultural diplomacy through building Chinese-funded stadiums, using low interest loans, as gifts, or in exchange for better national relations throughout the African continent, the Caribbean and the South Pacific Islands.
Just as China's 'Stadium diplomacy' is an example of cultural diplomacy through building Chinese-funded stadiums; using low interest loans, as gifts, or in exchange for better national relations throughout the 'Global South', Chinese commercial purchases into European football is diversification into the sports economy, for marketing attraction, and to learn from better footballing nations.
