The Olympic village comes alive

With only a few days to go until the opening of the Paris summer Olympics, athletes continued to arrive at the Olympic village on the outskirts of Paris on Tuesday. Many of the apartments in the village - which will house around 14,250 athletes and officials during the course of the games - now carry the flags of competing countries and can be seen from the public path which runs around its perimeter. The Paris games will open with a ceremony along the seine river on Friday and end on august 11. Kenya athletes sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala and volleyball captain Triza Atuka are among the privileged few athletes picked as flag bearers for their respective countries.