Air conditioning units fitted at a school gym that athletes were using for training have been removed just days after the end of the Olympic games. The gym at Rokeby School in Newham, East London was known to be stiflingly hot and one teacher claimed that pupils could only use it for 15 minutes at a time because of the high temperatures.
There have even been cases in the past of children fainting during PE lessons as a result of the conditions.
Teachers at the school have now hit out at LOCOG as 'hypocrites' who were going against the idea of the Olympic legacy.
(August 21, 2012)