As the excitement mounts ahead of the 2012 Olympics, Londoners are already preparing for the disruption the Games will cause to day-to-day life, with the working population being encouraged to work from home during the Olympic period.
Can we really expect true disruption, the game-changing disruption that companies like Uber and Airbnb have brought to transform their respective industries?
However, the glaring errors, the ones that cause the most embarrassment, could be quickly sorted out using existing technology and personnel with minimum disruption to the game.
Despite the disruption before the game, Riga was pleased with the efforts of his side.
Thus, we might be seeing the start of disruption in the games industry, but for the disruption to really get going, both game publishers and consumers will have to adjust their expectations of the market.
But over all, officials said today, their security plans worked as intended with no disruption to the Games.
In Rio, more than 1,600km to the south of the worst-affected regions, Olympic and tourism officials say they are heeding government warnings but see no signs of trip cancellations or of disruption to the Games, which begin on 5 August.
A survey by YouGov of 500 decision-makers at small to medium enterprises (SMEs) for online collaboration and remote working firm Citrix, found that while almost half of SMEs expect some kind of disruption during the Games, only 21percentt have business continuity in place.
Their fear is of similar disruption to the games themselves.There have been a few small protests by foreigners in the last few days: "Free Tibet" banners raised near the main stadium, prayers said by Christian activists at Tiananmen Square and slogans that a man daubed on hotel-room walls.
It is now the perfect time to transition the project to one focused on construction, so there will be no disruption after the Games in implementing the legacy vision we have crafted".
The spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there could still be some disruptions during the Games as demonstrators tried to take advantage of the global news media spotlight on Sydney.
