Construction at two Tokyo 2020 venues is nearing completion eight months before the start of the Olympics, as preparations for the games enter the final stretch on schedule.

The elegant Tokyo aquatics centre, which will host swimming and diving at the games, is 90% complete, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG), and is on schedule to be finished at the end of February.

Likewise, the venue for volleyball and wheelchair basketball is 98% finished with only the painting of the interior floor to be concluded.

All of the venues being built or refurbished for Tokyo 2020 are on schedule, including the centre-piece national stadium, where construction work finished last week.

The aquatics centre, built at a cost of ($523 million), will be the last new venue to be completed.

Other than the Olympic stadium and the Olympic and Paralympic athlete’s village TMG is building eight new competition venues for the games.

Many of the other events are scheduled to be held at pre-existing venues in a bid to keep costs down.

The games are set to run from July 24 to August 9.