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The Olympic Games are still over two years away but planning for what will happen on the Park after 2012 is well underway.

The Olympic Park Legacy Company was set up last year to oversee the long-term development of the area and its chairwoman, Baroness Ford, recently gave evidence to a House of Commons select committee about its plans.

It's late 2012 in east London. The Olympic party is over. The athletes and spectators have gone home.

For this part of the capital, which was promised so much from hosting the world's greatest event, what will be left?

Legacy has been one of the keywords for the 2012 Olympics even before London was awarded the Games in 2005.

In the four years since great strides have been made in developing the infrastructure for the Games but less tangible are the long-term employment benefits for east London.

He's an Olympic legend but for Sir Steve Redgrave it's Britain's future, not its past, that's important.

For Sir Steve, who won five gold medals at successive Olympics between 1984 and 2000, the 2012 Games in London should be the springboard for sporting success for years to come.

There are just three years to go until the greatest show on Earth arrives on Canary Wharf's doorstep and the excitment is building.

The man in charge of successfully delivering the 2012 Olympics Games is Paul Deighton, chief executive of the London Organising Commitee (Locog).

London's Olympic Park will become a centre of academic as well as athletic achievement under plans unveiled by Boris Johnson.

The Mayor of London and the Government have published a proposal to develop a world-class research, learning and innovation centre at the Stratford site.

East London has been promised “radical change� even after the Olympics have left in 2012.

The deprived region has been promised schools, a sports academy and 10,000 new jobs as part of a legacy masterplan unveiled this week.