Blessing in Disguise ; the Fiasco That Cost London This Week's World Championships Could, in the Long Run, Be Good for Britain.
Evening Standard - London › August 04, 2005
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TODAY London should have been full of thousands of athletes, officials and spectators eagerly awaiting the start of the biggest sporting event in Britain for decades, the 10th World Athletics Championships.
The flags of the 196 competing nations should have been fluttering in a new state-of-the-art, 43,000-seater athletics stadium built at Picketts Lock, Edmonton.See the full content of this document
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Blessing in Disguise ; the Fiasco That Cost London This Week's World Championships Could, in the Long Run, Be Good for Britain.
The days of crumbling Crystal Palace as the centre of British athletics would have been over.
The Queen would have travelled to the Pounds 100million arena on Saturday to open a championships which would have begu...See the full content of this document
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