The Battle for the Olympic Stadium
Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:43 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gordonfarquh ... pic_s.html
"Neither club should have the stadium.
It should sit there as a reminder of yet more woeful forward planning and money wasting by the UK.
How we can be spending £400m on a "temporary" stadium is beyond me. Looking around the world at latest stadium technology, the Olympic stadium could have incorporated flexible/removal seating to cover the track from the outset. Could also have had a removal sliding pitch to allow it to be a multipurpose venue in the way Wembley isn't.
But no, we build an over expensive stadium, that is also very boring to look at and utterly useless once the games are over.
It was a white-elephant even before they started constructing it."
hit the nail on the head there that guy. Seems a crazy situation bidding over stadiums!
"Neither club should have the stadium.
It should sit there as a reminder of yet more woeful forward planning and money wasting by the UK.
How we can be spending £400m on a "temporary" stadium is beyond me. Looking around the world at latest stadium technology, the Olympic stadium could have incorporated flexible/removal seating to cover the track from the outset. Could also have had a removal sliding pitch to allow it to be a multipurpose venue in the way Wembley isn't.
But no, we build an over expensive stadium, that is also very boring to look at and utterly useless once the games are over.
It was a white-elephant even before they started constructing it."
hit the nail on the head there that guy. Seems a crazy situation bidding over stadiums!
Re: The Battle for the Olympic Stadium
Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:52 am
ae89 wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/gordonfarquhar/2011/01/weighing_options_for_olympic_s.html
"Neither club should have the stadium.
It should sit there as a reminder of yet more woeful forward planning and money wasting by the UK.
How we can be spending £400m on a "temporary" stadium is beyond me. Looking around the world at latest stadium technology, the Olympic stadium could have incorporated flexible/removal seating to cover the track from the outset. Could also have had a removal sliding pitch to allow it to be a multipurpose venue in the way Wembley isn't.
But no, we build an over expensive stadium, that is also very boring to look at and utterly useless once the games are over.
It was a white-elephant even before they started constructing it."
hit the nail on the head there that guy. Seems a crazy situation bidding over stadiums!
Olympic stadium complete waste of tax payers money
Re: The Battle for the Olympic Stadium
Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:58 am
Its a shame the millennium stadium didn't have a running track cause it has been a success at everything else its hosted