Decision over whether West Ham can move to Olympic Stadium could be put back

A decision over whether West Ham can move into the Olympic Stadium could be delayed, it has been revealed.

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The £486m Olympic Stadium has already been earmarked for 20 athletics meetings, which include the World Championships in 2017, and will also be available for community use, with Newham Council contributing some £40million in a loan towards the redevelopment project. Hone added: "We have had discussions with all of the bidders. The difficulty is that we are balancing the adaptations we have to make to the stadium against the proposals that have come in and the benefits - financial and otherwise - that those proposals bring. "If it was a knockout [verdict] it would be an easy decision, but it's not." The bidding process to take over the Olympic Stadium had to be restarted last year after legal challenges from both Tottenham and Orient to West Ham's proposed tenancy.