Workers and technicians apply the finishing touches to the installations on Marseille's Vieux-Port, which will welcome the arrival of the Olympic flame on Wednesday. ‘The eyes of the whole world will be on Marseille. And that's marvellous!' enthuses Tom Thomas Sarr, an 82-year-old Marseille resident who has come to observe the final preparations in the city centre. Some 150,000 people are expected. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES