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Down-the-line.com continues to monitor the preparations for the UK to the next Olympics, which, recall, will take place in the British capital in one year to the European championship on football. We already wrote about the difficulties faced by the organizers of the competition, but today let's talk about the passions that simmer around London's Olympic Stadium.

I can, of course, be mistaken with the exact figures, but in London only one football stadium that can accommodate more than 10 thousand people – twelve pieces. In addition to which are present also “Tvikenhem ', the country's rugby arena for 82,000 spectators, cricket” The Oval “at 24 thousand,” Tvinkinhem Stoop “- to play rugby for 15 thousand, a cricket” Lord's Ground “at 28 000. There is the Palace of Sports “O2″ for 22 thousand spectators. And that's not counting a couple of dozen other stadiums sanitized for smaller regional clubs in football, rugby or cricket, with a capacity of 5 to 10 thousand spectators.

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sports infrastructure in the capital of England and before everything was in order, now and at all can happen that after will be delivered all the Olympic facilities in London, there will be a surplus. Judge for yourself, in a city where there is no need for new sports venues, the Olympic Games 2012 will be completed: the Palace of Water Sports (17,000 spectators), “BikePark” in 6000, the center of Hockey on the 15 thousand, basketball palace at 12 thousands, handball in 7000, and finally – the main Olympic arena, 2012, “Olympic Stadium” on 80 thousand spectators. Tell me, without all this it was impossible to do without? Under the beautiful idea to unite all the sports facilities, which are also still make individual for each sport, in one large “Olympic village”, the state budget the UK is now obliged to carry the heavy burden of financial stress. When the economy reached the children (delayed tighter school budgets), to build a handball or basketball courts? Necessitated by the presence of the elegant Palace of Sports “O2″, looks very doubtful.

“ How to fit the head of the organizing committee with assurances Olympics Sebastian Coe 2012, that funding for the Olympics fully implemented, is difficult to understand …”

So what do you do with all this wealth after the Games? Ask this question and the organizing committee, asserting that the decision is and it is that all these sites will be multifunctional, they can be carried out not only sports, but also entertainment. But here's what to do with a huge athletic stadium? Already, in the course of construction, we have to save and update the project. Initially, the construction of “Olympic Stadium” was supposed to allocate 830 million dollars, but now they say the need to simplify the finishing works to reduce the budget. How does it fit in with the head of the organizing committee with assurances Olympics Sebastian Coe 2012, that funding for the Olympics fully implemented, is difficult to understand. How, in principle, and understand that this stadium to do next.

assumed that in 2015, at the “Olympic Stadium” will be the World Championships in Athletics, but the British had to abandon this idea and to entrust a forum to Beijing. Why? And because we do not guarantee that by the time the arena will function as athletic. Today, there are two options (only about a third say, but no official statements yet) the future of the stadium. The first time the stadium will not be able to function as an athletic arena, in the second – are possible options. The first option to pass, when the American sports stadium will get the company AEG in conjunction with the football club, “Tottenham Hotspur”, which in this case, it will be removed from the running track and turn it into a sports and entertainment commercial center. The second option offers another London club – “West Ham”, who agrees to keep a sports stadium versatility, and thus hold their matches on it.

“But that's not all. Just the other day was known information that the interest in using the stadium in time expressed postolimpiysky third party …”

Why so serious interest “Olympic Stadium” caused by the two football clubs? The answer is simple – a free new stadium with a capacity greater than the current club scene. A few years ago, “Tottenham Hotspur” bravo reported to the start of the project of a new club stadium can accommodate 60,000 spectators, instead of 36 000 'White Hart Lane. ” Home arena, “West Ham”, too, can not boast of large size (35 000), but in contrast to the rich, “Spurs,” “blacksmith” in recent times not even muddled about building a new stadium. So it is no surprise that clubs grabbed the opportunity to acquire a new and spacious arena of the state's expense.

But that's not all. Just the other day was known information that interested in using the stadium in time expressed postolimpiysky third party. And though its name and purpose of the secret, it does not interfere with British journalists to assume that lay “Olympic Stadium” in their hands wants the American National Football League. NFL intends to conduct the London part of their commercial games. As you can see, sell the bear's skin before one has caught the bear, the construction of the arena is under way, love is not only us but also for Albion. Although one of the conditions for the further use of the stadium is to maintain his athletic functions, it is clear that the organizers of the Olympics will give the construction of the organization that will offer the most favorable conditions, and it is unlikely, and the state will be able to dictate terms. In other budget risks in idle spend almost a billion dollars but the object, which in addition to operating within the Olympic month, and no one will be needed. Or that the British still tend to waste?

Alexander Neshta. Down-the-line.com

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