LONDON (Reuters) - Swimming's biggest names slug it out in the men's 200 metre freestyle on Monday as the weather stayed cool but sunny and London's transport system defied predictions of gridlock on the first regular working day of the Olympic Games.
London's transport bosses expect an extra three million journeys per day on top of the usual 12 million during the Games, an Olympian test for an underground train network that first opened in 1863 during the reign of Queen Victoria.
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