The Olympic Legacy

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BoysInBlue

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Don Valley Athletics Stadium in Sheffield is getting knocked down as part of Sheffield Council's £50m cost-cutting measures. This will save the council £700k a year in running costs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-21627003

It was only built in 1991. Even when they knock it down, they'll still be paying it off at £20m a year until 2024.

This was the stadium Jessica Ennis trained at. Sheffield no longer has a 400m athletics track for athletes to train on.

So much for the 'Olympic legacy' in this country. I wondered how long it would be before this sort of thing started happening. Shameful.
 

This is so sad.

Me and my dad used to go and watch the athletics there every year. Saw Linford Christie and his massive wang, sat next to Steve Cram and met Johnothan Edwards. (Bad bad weirdo)

This place has to be saved. Just has to be.
 

EFCNIK said:
Why was Johnathan Edwards weird Ijj?
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Well, we accidentally ran into him on our way out. He was just standing there on the pavement. Was weird.


Looking back on it he was probably just waiting for a lift. But there was no need to be so offish with us.
 
Brennan said:
How does one stadium being knocked down disprove the Olympic Legacy ? :huh:
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It's one of the most famous athletics stadiums in the country, in the home town of one of the country's most decorated Olympic athletes, with said athlete training their regularly twice a week.

Call Me Dave said the Olympic Legacy would be preserved in this country. This Stadium is in the Deputy Prime Minister's own constituency! Not a peep out of Clegg about this.

Knocking down one of the most famous athletics venues in the country as part of a cost cutting measure, making athletics facilities worse in that city as well, isn't preserving the Olympic Legacy.
 
Why don't the locals do something about it then? Herne Hill Veledrome was due to meet a similar fate, but local cyclists got together and it was saved. Where there's a will there's a way.
 
Bruce Wayne said:
Why don't the locals do something about it then? Herne Hill Veledrome was due to meet a similar fate, but local cyclists got together and it was saved. Where there's a will there's a way.
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They may well do, it's only just been announced tonight that they're planning on closing it and demolishing.
 
BoysInBlue said:
Don Valley Athletics Stadium in Sheffield is getting knocked down as part of Sheffield Council's £50m cost-cutting measures. This will save the council £700k a year in running costs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-21627003

It was only built in 1991. Even when they knock it down, they'll still be paying it off at £20m a year until 2024.

This was the stadium Jessica Ennis trained at. Sheffield no longer has a 400m athletics track for athletes to train on.

So much for the 'Olympic legacy' in this country. I wondered how long it would be before this sort of thing started happening. Shameful.
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Utter bloody disgrace.
 

It's been a bit of a duck egg as a stadium though, remember watching a rugby game there an firstly it was empty, but secondly it wasn't conducive to watching ball sports.

Still, STILL I can't find video footage of Astronaut Helen Sharman dropping the flame at the opening ceremony of the World Student Games, set fire to the rug and then delivered something without a flame that magically lit the big one.

Without the cost for the stadium upkeep they can provide one hell of a training facility, isnt that what the legacy is about as well ? Probably find that HS2 lines are going straight through it as well.
 
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