City of Coventry Stadium announced as the new London 2012 Football venue 04/06/2010 |
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Coventry City Football Club has been selected as the new Midlands venue to host Olympic Football matches in 2012.
The selection procedure, which was carried out the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG), is now complete and means that all venues are now in place for the Games.
The Ricoh Arena, which will be temporarily re-named the City of Coventry Stadium for the 2012 games, will have all branding removed and will replace Villa Park which is unavailable because of building work.
Seb Coe, LOCOG Chair, said: ‘The City of Coventry Stadium is a great venue, and will be an excellent host for Football matches for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
‘It is ideally located in the centre of England and the city already has strong links with London 2012.
'I congratulate Coventry and extend my thanks to all the Midlands clubs who applied to be a venue. All were a very good standard, and this shows the excellent standards of football stadia in this country.’
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