So much for the legacy Games!!

So the 2012 Olympic games is going to have a lasting legacy that will be passed on to future generations! This from the Contract Journal this week:

The London Development Agency is considering demolishing the 2012 Olympic stadium once the Games are complete, and building a football stadium in its place.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has become increasingly concerned that no "anchor tenant" has come forward to occupy the venue, according to the Evening Standard.

A spokesman for Johnson said: "Expensive facilities should not be built unless they have a viable future.

"The LDA has been looking at a range of options, but the Mayor... is not aware of any plans to demolish it [the stadium]."

Johnson's advisers are believed to favour building a new football stadium on the site of the stadium after the Olympic Games.

West Ham United would be the obvious football team to occupy the stadium, though their original talks with the 2012 organisers about moving to the venue broke down two years ago. Tottenham Hotspur are also in need of a bigger capacity stadium.

The LDA director charged with finding a legacy for the stadium is Tom Russell, who was a key figure in moving Manchester City into the City of Manchester Stadium after the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

The same publication also pointed out that three other venues will exist only for the two weeks of the Games:

Three Olympic venues could be pulled from London 2012, as concerns mount over the costs of the construction programme.

The Evening Standard reports that accountants KPMG have been appointed by the London Olympics' organisers to review the necessity of building three of the venues. These are: the equestrian venue at Greenwich Park; the shooting venue in Woolwich; and the basketball venue in the main Olympic park.

Tessa Jowell, minister for London 2012, told the Standard: “We have commissioned KPMG to do a report on the equestrian, shooting and basketball venues, looking at whether the Olympic experience and the legacy they will provide represents value for money.

“When you take the costs for these venues, it seems like a lot of money to a lot of people. It is a sort of testing-to-destruction to see whether that spending can be justified.”