Sport in the United Kingdom fans to sit behind an athletics track. This means that athletics stadiums have to be separately financed and this can only be done with public funds, which have not been forthcoming on a large scale. The largest athletics stadium built in the United Kingdom between Second World War and the 2010s, the 38,000-capacity City of Manchester Stadium built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, was reconfigured for football-only use after that event. For many years, the largest existing stadium was the 25,000 seat Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, and London's largest athletics venue was Crystal Palace, which has just 15,500 permanent
Valley Greyhound Stadium Valley Greyhound Stadium The Valley Greyhound Stadium is a greyhound racing stadium in Twyn Road, Ystrad Mynach, Hengoed, Wales. The track known as Valley is on Twyn Road sandwiched between the Caerphilly Road and A469 and on the east bank of the Rhymney River It is the only existing greyhound racing track in Wales and is independent (not affiliated to the Greyhound Board of Great Britain). The stadium opened to greyhound racing on 20 July 1976 with the first ever winner being a greyhound called 'Boss' who won in a time of 19.20 sec over 310 yards. The circuit is