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I don't know what was before Olympic park but I'd rather be in a place with a velodrome and no golfers.
It was a scruffy low rent industrial area that allowed people to open up scruffy low rent businesses the kind of thing every city actually needs both to function and to provide future jobs.
The welders, carpenters, locksmiths and heating engineers were Socio-Economically cleansed to provide investment opportunities for the already rich.
I don't know what was before Olympic park but I'd rather be in a place with a velodrome and no golfers.