Chairman of London 2012 Sebastian Coe explains the productivity of Olympic Stadium
Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 Olympic Games, has recently said in a statement that the Olympic Stadium will be productive even after the Olympic Games have reached their conclusion as the stadium will provide facilitation to the people living
in the vicinity of the stadium.
Not only that, it will also provide state of the art facilities to the athletes who want to use it for professional as well as competitive purposes.
The Olympic organisers plan to find tenants for the Stadium after the Games have come to an end. It was initially thought that the Olympic Stadium would be tenanted by West Ham. However, that did not materialise as there were legal problems associated with
the deal. More specifically, Tottenham and Leyton Orient put forward some legal challenges that did not let the renting of the Olympic Stadium by West Ham materialise.
The chairman of the Olympic Games, Lord Coe, expressed himself on the matter in the following manner while talking to BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, “What you have is a stadium designed with legacy in mind so you could have had a 25,000-seater track
and field facility. What we now have is a home for national track and field which we've never had and the first major legacy of that is having won the right to stage the 2017 World Athletics Championships. I hope Britain shows the society and the country it
is in an extraordinary setting.”
The Olympic Games are heading towards London for the third time in the city’s history. The first time that the Olympic Games made their way to the capital of England was more than a century ago in 1908.
The second time that the Olympic Games made their way to the capital of England was four decades later in the year 1948. The third time that the Games are coming to London is next year. After London has successfully hosted the event, it will become the only
city in the world to have had the honour of playing host to the Olympic Games for a total of three times.
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