The International Olympic Committee requires all venues for the 2012
London Games to be finalized by March.
Gilbert Felli, the IOC's executive director of the Olympic Games, said
yesterday that London organizers are still deciding ontwo venues a joint
facility for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics and a location for shooting.
"At least in March, all of that will be closed so that we know where all the
venues are," Felli said after the IOC executive board reviewed London's venues
layout.
As a cost-cutting measure, organizers said recently they are considering
scrapping a temporary, 6,000-seat venue for badminton and rhythmic gymnastics
and moving the sports to an existing facility.
They also are weighing whether to move shooting from its present site in
Greenwich.