The head of the IOC, Jacques Rogge, has stirred up a hornets' nest by publicly stating that London 2012's main stadium does not need an athletics legacy.
He told the BBC that the main concern for London 2012's organisers should be to avoid leaving behind "white elephants".
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"If the best solution is to transform the track into something else then we would be in favour of that.
We had the same situation in Atlanta where the Olympic Stadium was changed into a baseball stadium, which kept an interest for sport.
We don't have problems with that. I don't want to enter into specifics but we don't want to leave white elephants."
This of course means that the stadium can be turned into a football stadium afterwards. All very well, but hardly the "legacy" that the government had promised.
Lord Coe promised that the £525M complex would be a "stadium with track and field as its primary legacy".
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