Source: Daily_Mail
Lord Coe puts West Ham on the right track for London's Olympic Stadium
If West Ham want to move to London's Olympic Stadium after 2012, they will have to share it with athletics.[LNB] Olympic organising committee chairman Lord Coe hammered home the message again yesterday in reply to West Ham co-chairman David Sullivan's criticism of the stadium's future. [LNB]Coe told website Insidethegames: 'This is beginning to sound like a cracked record. The commitment to athletics stands.[LNB] On track: The London 2012 Olympic Stadium in Stratford[LNB] British athletes set for showdown talks after poor Indoor performanceMARTIN SAMUEL: Williams knows no fear: That's why she's a golden wonder The vision that was presented was clear and unambiguous. It wasn't to further the ambitions of a Premier League football club.'[LNB] Sullivan had told the BBC: 'To build an 80,000-seat stadium and reduce it to 25,000 for athletics makes no sense at all. It's a temporary stadium with limited facilities - that's public money appallingly badly spent.'[LNB] Coe won the votes of several IOC members in 2005 with his promise to leave London with a new athletics stadium. [LNB] British athletes set for showdown talks after poor Indoor performanceMARTIN SAMUEL: Williams knows no fear: That's why she's a golden wonder[LNB] [LNB]
