More dramatic changes are planned after the Games - but only after a promised public consultation.
After the Games, the course will become a public facility to promote golf in Brazil.
Most will go back to subsistence living or very low paying jobs after the games conclude.
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If successful, the venue could become one of the county's 'festival grounds' after the Games.
In September, after the games, the party's own mouthpiece, the People's Daily, weighed in.
In March, the Hammers defeated Spurs in the bid for the stadium after the Games.
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For that to happen, planning permission must be submitted by March 2012 to ensure work starts immediately after the Games.
It has already been reported that West Ham are interested in making the stadium their new home after the Games.
After the Games, cross-channel ferry operators will be providing full service to multiple destinations in France, such as Calais and Le Havre.
She stepped down from the U.S. role after the games and is now managing the women's national team of her native Sweden.
Hours after the games closed, the city police raided half-a-dozen favelas (shantytowns).
Organisers unveiled plans to create a centre for sports medicine, science, research and various sporting bodies in the Olympic Park after the Games.
The authority set up to run the site after the games has plans for a new residential district of 50, 000 people by 2030.
It said the new operator of the Aquatics Centre hopes 800, 000 people a year will make use of its facilities after the games.
If there is any hope in the near future for an acceleration of political change, the period after the games will be one to watch.
That growth is likely to pause to catch its breath after the games, which would be bearish for the prices of oil and all industrial commodities.
After the Games, the entire Olympic park will be opened up to become one of the largest urban parks created in Europe in more than 150 years.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company is in the middle of the process of deciding who will take over the 80, 000-seater venue in east London, after the Games.
Legacy for the sports venues -- making sure they won't be white elephants after the Games -- will differentiate London from last year's Olympics in Beijing, Hula said.
It did take into account long-term effects, both before and after the games which mitigates the disappointing sales reported by London retailers in the first week of the Olympics.
Earlier in the week, Tottenham's proposal to take over London's Olympic Stadium with AEG after the Games in 2012 was branded as "completely unacceptable" by UK Athletics (UKA).
If the experiences of Portugal and Spain are anything to go by, this southern European economy will roar along until shortly after the games and then take a big breather.
Meanwhile, it was revealed on Tuesday that there are four parties bidding to take over the Olympic Stadium after the Games have finished, including one connected with Formula One racing.
This picture of a graffiti laden swimming pool is part of a Getty Images slide show by photographer Matt Cardy of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex seven years after the Games.
That they had to wait over a month to feel the country's full embrace, due to the U.S. Open coming swiftly after the Games, only made their homecoming more sweet.
Meanwhile, passengers arriving at Heathrow just before and just after the Games have been warned of lengthy delays as passport control officials are redeployed to cater for athletes using dedicated passport lanes.
After the games, challenges abound for Cypriot sports.
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Home to two ice rinks, 18 badminton courts and 10 regulation-size basketball courts, the complex is one of the only legacy buildings - Olympic facilities built specifically to remain after the Games end - that hosted competition.
The Olympic Stadium will have 80, 000 seats when the games comes to London, and though that number will probably be reduced after the Games, Lord's could lose its position as the biggest cricket ground in the country.
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