Question Time 2 - Olympic Opportunities Opening Address

Geoff Newton, Director, Olympic Opportunities, LDA

“We want to make sure the venues on the park work not only in Games time, but also in legacy.”

“We can’t come out the other side of the Games saying it’s a success if we haven’t done something about participation.”

“If we don’t deliver something that all parts of the community feel they have benefited from then we will have failed.”

“If we don’t deliver something the community feels involved in, engaged in, and a genuine sense of ownership of we will have failed.”

“We do not want to deliver another Canary Wharf.”

“We want to be able to hit the ground running after the Games.”

“It won’t be one day Games, next day legacy. There’s a transition period.”

“There will be negative headlines. It’s what we do on the ground that counts.”

“What we don’t want is to be excluding some groups because we’re under financial pressures – it’s quite a challenge.”

“The crucial question is, how can we use 2012 to deliver on strategies we’ve already got?’

“The big challenge is one of resources. It’s 20 times the size of the World Cup.”

“This is the most exciting, most challenging, and biggest project anyone of us will ever go through.”

“The lesson from Barcelona is that they had a really clear vision of what sort of city they wanted.”

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