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This image made available in London Thursday March 31, 2011 by the Olympic Delivery Authority, shows the Olympic Village seen from the air on Thursday March 24, 2011. The International Olympic Committee has praised the progress in construction of the athletes' village for the 2012 London Games. The IOC's coordination commission toured the village Thursday March 31, 2011, on the second day of its latest check on Olympic preparations. London's Olympic Delivery Authority said work on the first of the 11 residential complexes in the village has now been completed. The ODA says "construction of the remaining residential plots is firmly on track" with completion expected by the end of the year.(AP Photo/Anthony Charlton, ODA, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY: