Olympic Hockey Centre (London)
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London's Olympic Hockey Centre will be built in the Olympic Park
Olympic Park, London
The Olympic Park in London is a new sporting complex currently under construction, adjacent to the Stratford City development in Stratford, Bow, Leyton & Homerton in East London for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics....

 at Hackney
London Borough of Hackney
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 in east London
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, United Kingdom
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. It will have two venues for the Olympic hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics
2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the "London 2012 Olympic Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012...

 with capacities of 15,000 and 5,000 respectively, and venues for the Paralympic football seven-a-side and football five-a-side competitions at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
2012 Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between 29 August and 9 September 2012. The Games will be held in London, United Kingdom after the city was successful with its bid for the Paralympics and Summer Olympic Games.Even though 2012 will be London's...

. The budget for the centre is £19 million. After the games the hockey centre will be scaled down to a 5,000 seat arena and a training pitch and moved north to Eton Manor
Eton Manor
Eton Manor is a sports and leisure venue in Leyton, London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is the northernnmost area of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and a venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics....

. In January 2011, Leyton Orient F.C.
Leyton Orient F.C.
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expressed an interest in moving into the Hockey Centre after the games.
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