LONDON (AP): Tottenham released the first image Monday of the proposed 60,000-seat venue the club hopes to build on the site of London's Olympic Stadium.
Tottenham is bidding with American sports and entertainment giant AEG against Premier League rival West Ham for the right to move onto the site after the 2012 London Games. A decision is expected later this week.
Tottenham's plans have been criticized because the 537 million-pound ($867 million) Olympic Stadium would be largely dismantled to build a facility without a running track, making it more suitable for football.
West Ham vice chairman Karren Brady, whose club would retain the track, claimed it would be a "corporate crime to bring the bulldozers in."
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy said his club would retain parts of the stadium totaling about 420 million pounds.
"Accusations that we would 'demolish' 500 million pounds of stadium are hugely inaccurate and highly irresponsible," Levy said Monday in a statement.
"Two-thirds of the Olympic Stadium, under the original legacy plan, was to be dismantled - it was not designed to be a permanent structure. Recent scare-mongering conveniently forgets this fact."
Tottenham's design plans are a near replica of the stadium that the club had initially hoped to build on its current White Hart Lane site.
Spurs intend to provide an athletics legacy for the Olympics by refurbishing the aging Crystal Palace venue in south London.
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