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Coe wants to match full stadiums in London
VANCOUVER — London Olympics chief Sebastian Coe said Saturday he wanted the 2012 Games to replicate the packed venues in Vancouver that had helped make the event a success.As chairman of…
VANCOUVER — London Olympics chief Sebastian Coe said Saturday he wanted the 2012 Games to replicate the packed venues in Vancouver that had helped make the event a success.As chairman of the London organising committee, Coe is in Canada for the Winter Games that end Sunday with a 60-strong delegation."I think for me there is one thing that really has been done extraordinarily well here and that is that we've got full stadiums," he told reporters."I haven't been anywhere where there's been an empty seat effectively in the house even in some of the earlier competitions where they've not been fighting out finals.""People look like they want to be in those stadiums," he added.Coe said Vancouver had embraced the Games and he believed the Olympics would also catch the imagination of Britain, adding that the 2012 organisers had spent a lot of time on planning for full venues and mulling ticketing strategy."We want to create a Games that has the forensic eye for delivery in the way that Beijing did," he said."I want the party atmosphere that Sydney injected. I want the heart and the spirit of Barcelona. And I think we can sensibly add the city engagement now that I've witnessed here."Coe said that his team had also taken away lessons from Vancouver in city operations, including issues such as security and transport but it was too early to draw firm conclusions.And he was impressed with the "live sites" around the city providing entertainment and giant screen showings of Olympic events and highlights.Coe said the success of the Canadian athletes had been a major boost for the Games, adding: "Having a good Canadian performance has actually elevated these Games for everybody."He stressed the importance of sporting heroes to inspire the next generation of athletes and said one measure of success is how many children take up the sports they see.Coe said London would reap the rewards of having hundreds of different nationalities who call the city home."One of the things that we have a massive advantage with in London o
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