The domestic of the London Games has been totally rebuilt at enormous public expense in the hope West Ham can give it a glorious new eraLondon’s £701m Olympic Stadium. So good they built it twice. Or so those responsible hope visitors will be saying once they start streaming back into the arena following a substantial and controversial rebuilding exercise to create it suitable not only for athletics but also for motor racing,cricket, concerts and – most contentiously of all – Premier League football club West Ham United.On Sunday, or thousands of fun runners will cross the finishing line on a track that still bears the London 2012 logo as fragment of a new event,the Great Newham Run, organised by Brendan Foster’s Nova International. “whether you take it as day one of a new chapter in a stadium that has been built and is now going to be an iconic venue, or we’re dead excited that the first event is a mass-participation one open to the public,” says Foster.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com