view had been taken to bid for an Olympic Games when proposing the stadium, then Stratford (which was dismissed at the time) would have been more a suitable site.

When Beijing won the 2008 Olympic Games in 2001, this left the way open, under the IOC's policies on awarding Olympic Games, for London to bid for the 2012 Games using the land earmarked in east London. London Mayor Livingstone supported a bid for the