Even less legacy

Greenwich will also be host to the equestrian games, which will temporarily be set up outside the Queen's House, by Greenwich Park. The equestrians themselves have bitterly complained that the site is too small, and that it should be staged elsewhere. The number of people who will be able to watch is estimated to be a maximum of some 20,000 - compared to 150,000 who regularly attend other such events. This is the event in which the UK will have a strong team, including Princess Anne's daughter, and local interest is high. Interviewed on TV yesterday, a representative of the team wondered how the horses would even be able to enter the park without bringing them up and down the stairs at the Maritime Museum.
The site is only intended, like the shooting event's site, to be temporary - yet another example of the lack of legacy in the Games. Why can the event not be held outside central London - like the canoeing will be where the site is being built outside the M25 at Broxbourne? The ODC remains intransigent, and will not even consider such a move.