Sotherton hits out at West Ham over Olympic Stadium pursuit 25/02/2010 |
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Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton believes West Ham’s new owners are “out of order” for trying to take over the Olympic Stadium after London 2012.
The heptathlete believes the venue should remain an athletics stadium after the Games.
"The legacy should be athletics,” she said. “It's out of order that football think they can just come and have it.
"We don't have a national athletics stadium and we need one. We lost our last big stadium to Manchester City in 2002 after a great Commonwealth Games and the fear is now that we'll lose another one to football.
"I'm a massive fan of football and a big Arsenal fan, but at the end of the day it's our stadium and I think the legacy is to enable us to stage future world and commonwealth championships – who knows, maybe another Olympics.
"To have an Olympic stadium turned into a football stadium by a club struggling near the foot of the Premier League – it's out of order."
Sotherton added: "Of course athletics can't use it every week, but I'm sure uses can be found for it in the off-season – rock concerts for example.
"We just don't have a stadium that replicates the size and grandeur of an Olympic stadium. It's something the sport desperately needs."
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