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Basketball Stadium
The Basketball Arena has 12,000 seats for Olympic basketball and 10,000 for Paralympic wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby. The arena is also used as a holding area for athletes during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the games.
It is a temporary venue, and the largest built for any Games.  The possibility of subsequently deconstructing the arena and transporting it to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics was discussed, though the plan has been shelved due to doubts from some Brazilian officials about its feasibility.
In early October 2008 it was speculated that Wembley Arena could be used as a replacement venue for the preliminary rounds of the 2012 Olympic basketball tournament instead of the Basketball Arena, thus saving up to £90 million, but in March 2009 it was confirmed that a new arena would be built in Stratford as originally proposed.