Talk:White City Stadium

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As mentioned on the White City, London page the area was thus named because of the large number of whitewashed buildings at the Franco-British exhibition. The Olympic Stadium was given that name because it was already in common usage for that region of London, not vice-versa.

--Lost tourist 11:46, 10 October 2006 (UTC)