London 2012; Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre

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London 2012; Video: Latest Olympic legacy venue opens in Stratford

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Lee Valley: Latest Olympic legacy venue opens in Stratford

BBC London take a look around the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, which has opened at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford.

Costing £30m, it boasts six outdoor and four indoor tennis courts, along with two international standard hockey pitches.

The centre, which hosted wheelchair tennis at the London Paralympics in 2012, has already secured a number of international tournaments for both tennis and hockey. England Hockey will play the majority of their home international matches at the venue in the future.

Sara Orchard speaks to Shaun Dawson from the Lee Valley Park Authority, England hockey player Henry Weir, chairman of Wapping Hockey Club Stuart Burnside and wheelchair tennis player Lucy Shuker about what impact the facility will have.

Watch the video here: BBC Sport

Rio 2016; First tracks laid on new metro line

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First tracks laid on new metro line that will link Rio 2016 Olympic Park with rest of city

The construction of Line 4 of Rio’s metro service, a crucial project for the 2016 Games and the city’s residents, has reached an important milestone with the installation of 400 metres of track in the first tunnel to be completed.

The new line, scheduled to start operating in 2016, will link Barra da Tijuca – the large neighbourhood in the west of Rio that will host the Olympic Park – with Ipanema in the south zone, providing easy connections onwards to Copacabana, the city centre and north zone.

The tracks have been laid in the tunel that links Barra with São Conrado – it is the largest tunnel in the world that has been dug through rock between two metro stations. Another 300 metres of track will be laid every week. More than 1,100 sections of track – each 18 metres long and weighing more than a tonne – will be used to complete the tracks, in both directions, in the Barra-São Conrado tunnel.

Source / read more: Rio2016.com