Results tagged “legacy”

The Olympic Stadium will be used to host the 2017 World Athletics Championships after London was selected to host the event today.

London was chosen ahead of Doha for the spectacular, the first time the Championships have been held in Britain, delighting the UK's athletics supporters and the organisers of the 2012 Games.

The devil will be in the detail when the future of the Olympic Stadium is finally decided.

That was the message from the Olympic Park Legacy Company's chief executive Andrew Altman and chairman Baroness Ford when questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

By Andrew Williams

And so we pass another milestone in the journey to the 2012 Olympic Games.

We're now less than a year from the opening ceremony and while you can be sure that there will be many other hyped moments to come it already feels as though we're in the last lap of the build-up.

Legacy has been a much-overused word in recent years, particularly with large building projects like the Olympics.

So it comes as something of a surprise when one of the men in charge of the huge Crossrail project starts talking about its legacy, a full seven years before the first train is scheduled to run on its network.

Following her unexpected departure from Newham Sports Academy, Tessa Sanderson has spoken out about her concerns that London 2012 will not leave an athletics legacy.

Sanderson, who lost the funding for her academy from Newham Council just a year before the Games, made her views known in an interview with BBC today.

Pupils at an Island Gardens school sent out a clear message about their commitment to the environment, proving they are green by name and green by nature.

George Green School took part in a London wide Olympic project by making a film.

World experts will gather at the University of Greenwich in June to discuss the legacy of London 2012.

The topic of this year's conference is Games and the City: impacts and legacies in the urban environment.

People can leave their mark on history by suggesting names for five new neighbourhoods to be built on the Queen Elizabeth Country Park.

A new initiative, launched today by the Olympic Park Legacy Company, is seeking ideas for the estates that will eventually accommodate up to 8,000 new homes on the site.

By John Biggs

I met with representatives from Rio de Janeiro last week at a gathering to discuss their Olympic proposals and to share lessons learnt from ours.

While a great supporter of the London Games, it is even clearer to me now how each city is held to ransom by the judges who award them.

The legacy use of the Olympic Broadcast and Media Centres are causing the most concern for the team charged with making a commercial success of the venues after the 2012 Games.

Baroness Ford and Andrew Altman, chair and chief executive of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, made the admission when they were questioned by the London Assembly this morning.

Tottenham Hotspur's partners in their bid to take over the Olympic Stadium have today outlined their commitment to create a "viable and sustainable" legacy for the site.

Sarah McGuigan, senior executive director of AEG Europe, claims their scheme would bring in over three million visitors every year to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Speculation that the Media and Broadcast centres on the Olympic Park will be white elephants is wide of the mark says the man responsible for attracting tenants after the 2012 Games.

Andrew Altman, chief executive of the Olympic Park, insists the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC), which will be used by 20,000 media during the Games, will be attractive locations for businesses in legacy, writes Simon Hayes

The bidding has started for the organisations interested in taking over the Olympic Stadium.

The formal bidding process for the post-2012 use of the Stadium opened today - and parties have only six weeks to get their proposals in, with a deadline set of noon on September 30.

In two years' time the world's sporting talent will be hurdling, sprinting, swimming and wrestling at the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.

But what is being done to ensure a lasting legacy after the Games have been and gone?
The future of the Olympic stadium, the other sports venues and the media centre were discussed this week by the London Assembly's economic development committee.

Legacy has been the watchword of London's Olympic project but up until now it's been rather a vague term.

That's set to change within the next month when the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), the organisation charged with developing the use of the park after 2012 , publishes its revised masterplan.

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).