London, please take note: A few months into retirement, Beijing's sprawling Olympic park is more integrated into the city than one might have expected.
The commission lauded the urban renewal its Olympic park would spawn and its strong history of commitment to Paralympic sports.
London provided its first look at a planned 80,000-seat Olympic stadium in a 500-acre Olympic park to revitalize its east end.
Beijing, however, designed its stadium to be grand and permanent; it will be part of an Olympic park on the outskirts of the city.
In Stratford our council have just shut the leisure centre nearest to the olympic park, despite the fact that it was visited by 240 000 people last year.
It is within a combined Olympic park and nature reserve.
One of the entrances to the Olympic park is in Tower Hamlets, it is called the Victoria gate.
When the riders got close to the Olympic park, police began to cordon off and arrest riders.
As I live round the corner from Olympic park I'm peeved.
Babbacombe Model Village plans to celebrate the Games next year by holding its own sporting event, featuring a scaled down Olympic park and miniature races.
