When Diamond League returns in 2015 it will be a revamped venue, but athletics chiefs are confident of more full houses. had melted happily away into the sultry east London evening and Usain Bolt had signed his last autograph and flashed one last smile around the Olympic Stadium, a slim figure emerged on to the track, walked the wrong way down the home straight, dropped his hefty backpack on the start line, stripped off his tracksuit and started running. For a good 20 minutes Mo Farah reeled off lap after lap, as if he could not bear to leave the track around which he had run himself into history and into a nation’s heart a year earlier. When, or rather if, he returns for the World Championships in London four years from now it will be to a very different stadium. This was the last hurrah of the Olympic Stadium as we have come to know it, and even love it. Farah will never run on the distinctive washed-out red surface again. By the time sport is staged here again in two years, for another Diamond League meeting and then the Rugby World Cup, the track will have gone and so will the signature of the stadium, the distinctive A-frame floodlights that have become a landmark in this reborn part of the capital. more
