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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
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About Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is a sporting complex and public park in Stratford, east London. It was purpose-built for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. It contains the Olympic stadium, now the London Stadium, and is overlooked by the ArcelorMittal Orbit, an observation tower and Britain's largest piece of public art.

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I think people might be familiar with this tower because it's quite a famous iconic thing. They had a replica of it in the Royal Academy last year or the year before, I think. It looks a little bit like the Tower at the Olympic Park. That's exactly what I was thinking. Often if you see any kind of old pictures of Soviet Russia from the 1920s, this is kind of an iconic. image.

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