Mike Lee, now advise Milton in their efforts to take the Olympic Stadium site during the time worked for the London 2012 bid.Mike Lee, who helped bring the Olympic Games in London and now works as a consultant of Avellino attempt to take the Olympics Stadium after the 2012 Games, said he fears he will become "a white elephant" If rejected the proposal for the club.
A preferred bidder for the Olympic Stadium due to be announced later this month and a confirmed agreement should be concluded by the end of March.
The drawings of 1860 the highly controversial – want to dismantle the stadium and recreating another, suitable only for Football. Such a proposal contradicts promises of the International Olympic Committee in 2005, before Britain rating games.
The then Minister for sport, Tessa Jowell said in a speech to the IOC: "the stadium will be purpose-built a home Athletics for many generations, the largest new urban park in Europe for 200 years."
Lee said: "the key to this is viable and sustainable legacy over time. What you suggest spurs are to build a new stadium in this site, using much of what is already there and to invest heavily in the development and regeneration of the Crystal Palace stadium with a real Athletics legacy. Spurs have begun to determine the ideas and projects. Personally I think it is the right way. "
Lee was also part of the successful bid to host the 2016 Olympics, awarded in Rio de Janeiro. The track there will take place in existing installation – Estadio Olimpico Joao Havelange – which is currently home to a football club, Botafogo.
Lee said: "what is the risk of this ever with a white elephant for football and Athletics combined with 60,000 seats? I have looked into this long and hard and talked about a lot of expert individuals over the last six years, and there is a real danger to become a white elephant.
' Will receive ￡ 100-150 m to put a roof on, put in durable toilets, to hosting and no reconfiguration of the sightlines (in the direction of the pitch). Does not work for football. Football and Athletics combinations do not work, it is not what you want football supporters. Therefore, there is a risk that further subsidised by the Council with a white elephant taxpayer and this is unacceptable. "
Lee argues that supporters would be 45 metres away from the action without a radical redesign of the Olympic Stadium. But West Ham, tenders also undertake Stadium, intends to keep the track Athletics if allowed to relocate.
Ed Warner, President of UK Athletics, has admitted to his horror when informed of the Hansa. He consistently siding with West Ham and said: "the question for me here is not just a home for Athletics, this is an Olympic track in an Olympic Stadium in an Olympic Park. Watch the Olympic Park legacy company to deliver an Olympic legacy, not simply a legacy of Football in this park, which will be for future generations. It really is a Community instrument, and I think this is what it was all together.
"I don't see what Olympic heritage there is the proposal of the Hansa. The track has to stay as a source of inspiration for young athletes for generations ahead.
"There is a ￡ 500 m public money spent on this stage and could disappear at the end of 2012 and I think this is crying. What was a promise that has made and I believe that all politicians and decision-makers must stand behind the promises. "
Lee said he has not felt any obligation regarding the change: "the legacy was much broader than a specific piece of land. The legacy was on the revitalization of the East end was about investments in sport in London, across the country, about inspiring young people. It was almost a sport. "
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