For one glorious summer, London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park felt like the centre of the world.
Now the vast site, built at an even greater expense, lies mostly dormant and forgotten to the rear of the nearby Westfields Shopping Centre in Stratford.
Mostly.
Every now and then, a little white coach pulls up at an unremarkable stop separating the two, picking up and dropping off passengers whose business lies inside the park and, more specifically, the International Broadcast Centre.
For over a year now, BT Sport has been beaming out its mountain of sports content from this large, unprepossessing building and it was from here that last night’s coverage of Munster’s home Rugby Champions Cup tie with Saracens owed its genesis…………….. see more at :- http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/rugby/do-not-adjust-your-set-rugby-pay-per-view-is-here-to-stay-293910.html