New Delhi, December 01: Trying to replicate the splendour of Beijing Olympics would be a futile exercise and London, instead, would strive to make a mark in its own way, 2012 Games chairman Sebastian Coe said here today.
In his interaction with a couple of journalists here in a city hotel, Coe, who is here for the London Games’ international legacy programme, said Beijing hosted the most spectacular Olympics in the Games’ history but other cities need not despair.
“Beijing was spectacular. The venues were spectacular, the kind of details and planning went behind it were also spectacular,” Coe said.
“We recognise, and I think even the International Olympic Council also recognises, that we may not see a Games like the one in Beijing again,” he said.
“But that does not make better or worse any of the other editions in other cities.
–PTI