Realisation of Londons Olympic legacy will be two decades in the making,
the chairman of the parks management body has said, tempering expectations
of a rapid transformation of east Londons fortunes from the 9.3bn games.
When the capital won its bid to host the Olympics in 2005, Lord Coes
organising team pledged the rejuvenation of east London as a key objective.
The area around the Olympic Park has suffered persistently high levels of
poverty, low skills and worklessness since the decline of its docks and
industries in the 1960s...............
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