POSTED: Saturday December 20th 2008
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Further work to consider shooting location as Olympic Board publish KPMG Report

The KPMG Report was commissioned to look at four temporary venues

Following the meeting yesterday, the Olympic Board agreed that further work to assess the venue for the Shooting Event at the London 2012 Olympic Games would be carried out by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and LOCOG in the New Year.

The Board also agreed to publish the findings of a KPMG Report of temporary venues commissioned by the ODA earlier this year.  For reasons of commercial sensitivity and so as to not prejudice ongoing discussions where contracts have not yet been placed, financial information has been redacted from the report.  The report is available on the London 2012 website at http://www.london2012.com/documents/oda-publications/venues-location-report.pdf\” href=\“http://www.london2012.com/documents/oda-publications/venues-location-report.pdf\” target=\“_blank\”>http://www.london2012.com/documents/oda-publications/venues-location-report.pdf

The KPMG Report was commissioned to look at four temporary venues to see if cost savings could be made by finding alternatives to using temporary venues.

As announced after last month’s meeting the Olympic Board has already agreed that:

-                      The temporary venue for Basketball will remain on the Olympic Park;

-                      Equestrian and relevant modern pentathlon disciplines will remain at Greenwich Park.

The KPMG Report contains key findings relating to the basketball and equestrian/modern pentathlon venues, initial findings on the Shooting venue and an assessment of the temporary arena on the Greenwich Peninsula.   Should any change in venue be proposed this would have to be approved by the relevant International Federation and the IOC.

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