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The four-time cycling gold medalist was taking part in an event to mark two years to go until the Games begins.
"I had goose bumps on my arm," he said. "To me now the Games are coming alive."
Michael Johnson was among the sporting stars participating in the countdown event, the American running on a temporary track in the Olympic Stadium.
Retired British basketball player John Amaechi, who never got to play for Great Britain at an Olympics but did come out of retirement to help England win Commonwealth Games bronze in 2006, shot hoops in the basketball arena.
Mayor Johnson, meanwhile, launched an appeal for 70,000 people to volunteer to work as everything from city guides to press officers at the Games.
More than one million people are expected to register their interest in the London Volunteer programme to become a 'London 2012 Games Maker' and Lord Coe said the volunteers are the difference between "a good and a great Games".
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