Those behind the bid for the Games intended them to turn the UK into 'a world-leading sporting nation'.
, with some suggesting UK Sport's "no compromise" pursuit of medals in its funding approach being partly to blame.led to funding being cut or withdrawn from sports
Peggy Etiebet, assistant coach for Britain's women's water polo team, believes had some funding remained "we could have done so much more", as "we started it out and it just kind of withered away unfortunately". A more concrete legacy of the Olympics and Paralympics was the appearance of brand new sports facilities in east London, like the Lee Valley Velopark and the London Aquatics Centre.
The bid document initially promised that following the event the London Stadium would be converted into a 25,000-seat multi-purpose venue "with athletics at its core".However, it was later decided to reconfigure it, at a large cost to the taxpayer, into a multi-use venue centred around football in order to keep it viable as a stadium, unlike what had happened with some facilities in other Olympic and Paralympic cities.
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