Leicester City Centre designated Leicester's new cultural quarter, and is already the site of the Leicester Creative Business Depot(built on the old Leicester City Bus depot and keeping the initials) and the Athena. The LCB Depot opened in July 2004, and by the time of its first birthday had let 37 of 55 units, with talk starting of finding an additional site. Opposite the Athena, a new flagship £60 million Curve Theatre, Leicester, designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects, started construction in 2005, on a site that has been long-disused. It is planned to be ready for handover 2007 to the Haymarket company, who
OLY OLY OLY (Olympian) are post-nominal letters granted to athletes who have participated in the Olympic Games. The post-nominals are an honour designated to represent the special achievement of competing in the Olympic Games. The OLY initiative was introduced by the World Olympians Association (WOA) at the 8th International IOC Athletes Forum held on 11 November 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The first Olympian to formally receive the honor was IOC President Thomas Bach, an Olympic fencer from Germany. Within five days, more than 1,000 Olympians had registered. As part of the initiative, any athlete who participated at a Summer or Winter