The Olympic legacy has to be kept safe from party politics, London 2012 supremo Lord Coe said at Labour's party conference.
The Tory peer got a warm reception as athletes, torchbearers and Games volunteer took centre stage.
But Labour's ex-culture secretary Dame Tessa Jowell and the PE teacher who mentored double gold medallist Mo Farah attacked the Government's "dismantling" of school sports.
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