AEG Interested In Olympic Stadium

American entertainment giant AEG has emerged as one of the 106 names competing to pick up the Olympic stadium after the Games. The company's reputation as a poacher of white elephants is well established — they turned the unloved Dome into the O2, one of the world's most popular venues — and it would please Olympic chiefs and Newham council apparatchiks no end if they were able to give Stratford a similar success story. West Ham United, the other major name in the hat, remain interested, though the ever-erratic emanations from Upton Park (the chairmen recently put the entire squad up for sale) hint at a club in turmoil that might not be up for a bidding war.