Chair of 2012 organising committee tells Tory conference that mistakes will not be repeated at Olympic Park

Lord Coe, the Olympic medal-winning athlete and chair of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, has said that the construction of Wembley Stadium was a “cock-up”.


Lord Coe
Coe: “it was a cock-up from beginning to end”

Coe told an audience of delegates at the Conservative Party conference that the construction of the £500m stadium had gone disastrously wrong.

He said: “I don't want to bore you all for three hours on my feelings on the number of mistakes made at Wembley; suffice to say it was a cock-up from beginning to end.”

The Conservative peer added that the team building the Olympic Stadium would not repeat the mistakes made during the construction of the UK's national stadium.