aquatics

Just up the road is Tollcross Swimming Pool, which is favoured to host aquatics events, and the SEC events campus, which hosted multiple events in 2014.

Of the 35 stadiums housing events at Paris 2014, only two will be new and purpose-built – an aquatics centre and an arena for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics.

Two new structures were deemed unavoidable: The Olympic Village, to house athletes and later become housing and office space, and the aquatics center in Paris’ disadvantaged northern suburbs.

Several other venues were built especially for the Games 100 years ago - such as a new aquatics stadium and tennis courts.

While the village and the aquatics center in the poor, run-down area both leave a legacy for the future, the Games are steeped in history across the 35 venues.