What will happen to the London Olympic site?

From past experience- Beijing, Sydney, Athens, Montreal, even 1936 Berlin there are great vast track lands of empty windswept boulevardes with rarely used stadiums. A bizarre thing to build these monolithic estates every 4 years. Seems odd that it has to be in a different city each time with billions of taxpayer funds spent. Why not Athens every 4 years?

London may however be unique as it is so central unlike the others built on the edge of the cities. But swings and roundabouts- perhaps central London businesses are the great losers if reports of empty shopping centres are to be believed.

And Munich's OlympiaPark has been one of the great places ever since 1972 - concerts, festivals, recreation.

JK2006 wrote:
And Munich's OlympiaPark has been one of the great places ever since 1972 - concerts, festivals, recreation.

How mean, destroying my theory.

Possibly some win and some lose.

Exactly HH - it all depends on us... see my Brooks thread (which you may well also disagree with!).

Hedda Hopper wrote:
London may however be unique....
It is - as very few new venues were built for the London Olympics.

Existing venues are being used, many will be dismantled later; these include:-

Horse Guards Parade
Lord's
Hyde Park
Earls Court
ExCel
Greenwich Park
Wembley Arena
Wembley Stadium
The Dome
Wimbledon
Hampton Court
Old Trafford

etc. etc. etc.

Few, if any, new 'rarely used stadiums' will exist in the UK.