Steve Jolly wrote: > IIRC they're building one enormous athletics stadium that > will stay after the event, but many of the other events will > be re-using existing facilities (eg Wimbledon, Wembley, > Lords, the Dome) or held in stadia that will be dismantled > afterwards and shipped off to different bits of the country. > Or something.
Far better to have had it somewhere else in the UK for a change - Aberdeenshire works for me - and save shipping the bits about. London isn't the only place in the country that would be capable of holding this (maybe more) successfully. Trains etc do go FROM London as well as to it. Malcolm