Diack: ‘Outrageous’ to tear down Olympic stadium
LONDON (AP) — IAAF President Lamine Diack says it would be “outrageous” to tear down London’s new Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Olympics and replace it with a football venue with no track.
Premier League clubs Tottenham and West Ham are bidding for the use of the stadium after the games are completed, and only West Ham plan to keep the running track used for athletics events. Tottenham plan to tear down the stadium and build a new venue to be used only for football.
Diack said in a statement yesterday that “to now demolish the Olympic stadium… seems to me an outrageous proposition.”
He urged London organisers to stick to the original plan of downsizing the stadium to a 25,000-seat athletics venue.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company said earlier yesterday it could still go ahead with the original plan.
