Deal Secures Future of 8 Permanent Venues of Olympic Park

It has been revealed that iCITY has signed a deal with the London Legacy Development Corporation. Experts were of the view that the deal has come in less than year of the London 2012 Games.

Now, when the deal has been signed, authorities concerned were of the view that all the eight permanent venues in the Olympic Park are now secured.

To talk about the changes in the eight centres that will be brought through the deal, the first one is the Press and Broadcast Centres. During the last year games, it is said that the centres hosted 20,000 national and international media. But the deal will change the same into a business centre from which 4,500 jobs will be created.

The second one is stadium, which hosted opening and closing ceremonies as well as athletics. It is now said that the stadium will turn claret and blue. The next one is the Copper Box, where handball, modern pentathlon and goalball were placed.

As per the new deal, venue of 6,000 seat capacity will be made for sports like basketball, boxing and badminton. The fourth one is Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, where wheelchair tennis was played and next time, national matches of England Hockey will be played. Last two are Lee Valley VeloPark and Aquatics Centre.

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