Olympic Velodrome

[Alf W]

The 6,000-seat velodrome for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics was officially opened on Tuesday.

The venue for indoor cycling and BMX events, expected to come in on budget at around £93m, is the first to be completed at the Olympic Park.

£93m for a 6000 seater venue??? No wonder it has come in 'under budget'. The Milennium Stadium only costs £120m and that seats 75,000.

Who's picking up the tab for this? Why didn't they just let Manchester host the cycling and re-use the Commonwealth Games velodrome. No-one's interested in cycling anyway so they're never going to use it after the Olympics.

I'm looking forward to London's new £75m Crown Green bowling stadium opening.

[sasguru]

£93m for a 6000 seater venue??? No wonder it has come in 'under budget'. The Milennium Stadium only costs £120m and that seats 75,000.

Who's picking up the tab for this? Why didn't they just let Manchester host the cycling and re-use the Commonwealth Games velodrome. No-one's interested in cycling anyway so they're never going to use it after the Olympics.

I'm looking forward to London's new £75m Crown Green bowling stadium opening.

Certainly not lazy Northeners who are anyway subsidised by London. Its about time Londoners got something rather than
endlessly subbing the North.

[PAH]

No-one's interested in cycling anyway so they're never going to use it after the Olympics.

Isn't cycling currently one of GB's strongest sports, if not the strongest in terms of recent medal hauls?

As for use after the Olympics, I propose the velodrome is used for Rollerball games:

Rollerball (1975) - IMDb

About time we got some new sports to bloodlust over.

[DimPrawn]

Certainly not lazy Northeners who are anyway subsidised by London. Its about time Londoners got something rather than
endlessly subbing the North.

It's true, it's leisure time oop north.

All that loverly redevelopment and regeneration paid for by permies sweating their balls off in some cesspit in London, tulipting themselves everytime they sit on packed tube.

[Paddy]

£93m for a 6000 seater venue??? No wonder it has come in 'under budget'. The Milennium Stadium only costs £120m and that seats 75,000.

Who's picking up the tab for this? Why didn't they just let Manchester host the cycling and re-use the Commonwealth Games velodrome. No-one's interested in cycling anyway so they're never going to use it after the Olympics.

I'm looking forward to London's new £75m Crown Green bowling stadium opening.

In my day they called it a bicycle track

[Mich the Tester]

Isn't cycling currently one of GB's strongest sports, if not the strongest in terms of recent medal hauls?

As for use after the Olympics, I propose the velodrome is used for Rollerball games:

Rollerball (1975) - IMDb

About time we got some new sports to bloodlust over.

I think there's business potential in this if you get in on the Japanese keirin circuit. Evening and night races with lots of music, entertainment and betting. Could be quite cool.

[the_rangdo]

It's all worth it as apparently the toilets are nearer to the track now.

According to Chris Hoy anyway.

[minestrone]

The price of steel shot up massively about 6 or 7 years ago and with that the cost of building stadiums.