Former Town chief executive Simon Clegg has taken on a consultancy role with Madrid’s bid to stage the 2020 Olympic Games. Clegg, 53, left Portman Road after four years earlier this month.

Madrid 2020 chief executive Victor Sanchez is pleased with the appointment: “Simon remains a hugely respected figure within the Olympic movement.

“His experience of managing British athletes at 12 Olympic and Olympic Winter Games, six as Team GB’s chef de mission, including the best British performance for 100 years in Beijing coupled with his deep involvement in the bid process, means that he brings to us an almost unique perspective.

“We are sure that he can make a really positive contribution to our project over the final few months as we prepare for the vote in Buenos Aires in September.”

Clegg said: “I am delighted and flattered to be invited to join the Madrid 2020 team. They have an excellent bid founded on utilising a significant number of existing venues and have made really positive enhancements to their previous consecutive bids for the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games.

“The indisputable economic impact of London 2012 to the UK demonstrates just what a positive financial driver hosting the Games can be for a country and I look forward to helping Madrid secure a positive outcome over the remaining months of the campaign.”

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tractorblue99 added 12:56 - Feb 19 Thought it meant Real Madrid when I saw the headline!
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oscarwhiting added 12:57 - Feb 19 Same
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PinstripeBlue added 13:02 - Feb 19 Lucky the Madrid bid team didn't read this 'Clegg bashing' site!! I hope he does a good job.
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simonsays added 13:03 - Feb 19 Thought he would have tried to help Guam stage it!
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TractorCam added 13:05 - Feb 19 Haha, as if i actually thought it was going to be Real or even Atletico Madrid....
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ChrisMakin2012 added 13:06 - Feb 19 All he has ever cared about was the Olympics, no football knowledge or commitment. This news continues to prove it. Glad he went
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AndyUK61873 added 13:12 - Feb 19 Wish him all the luck in this new adventure. He was out of his depth at Ipswich, but certainly did not shy away from the media during the hard times.
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Marcus added 13:24 - Feb 19 They forget to include his prestigious work for Team Guam.
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bluefeast added 13:26 - Feb 19 He can paint the turnstiles for each venue.
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Bandbox_Blue added 13:31 - Feb 19 Mmmm. It seems he had this lined up before he quit Ipswich then. Football was never really his thing was it.
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TJS added 13:33 - Feb 19 He's wasting his time - 2020 Olympics will be in Tokyo - complete no-brainer.
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itfc1981 added 13:47 - Feb 19 I thought he would declare Rhodes an independent nation and bid for them.
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itfchorry added 13:57 - Feb 19 He is probably penning his Madrid list of acheivements right now
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sheepdags added 14:11 - Feb 19 "indisputable economic impact of London 2012 to the UK" - what about the triple dip recession?
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bluefeast added 14:29 - Feb 19 Cant believe my , He can paint the turnstiles comment has been marked down . Very clearly the sense of humour lacks , i for one am still laughing at it.
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bluefeast added 14:31 - Feb 19 Anyway here is a laugh for those not seen before. Univercity of Cambridge academics have proven that by the year 2020 you will never be more than 6 feet from a football player who has been on loan at Ipswich
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town4life added 14:36 - Feb 19 sooo when he left his words were "looking forward to spending time with family" and now he has a job in spain? proves the amount of trash he spilled when working at town
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bluemikey100 added 14:43 - Feb 19 thought he signin madrid cos mourinio leavin or maybe back up for ronaldo who will buy shirt with clegg on the back
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algarvefan added 14:43 - Feb 19 Come on guys, would they employ him if he was as crap as some make out on here? I am ambivalent about Cleggy but some of you do post some crap on here and blame him for things which have nothing to do with him, mostly to do with performances on the pitch. Give the guy a break and I for one wish him the best of luck down here on the Iberian peninsular.
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SamWhiteUK added 15:03 - Feb 19 Tractorblue, I'm sure that's probably the point
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Marcus added 15:33 - Feb 19 @sheepdags - to be fair the Olympics caused an increase in consumer confidence for a short time which bolstered the economy out of recession but things hadn't recovered enough and in the next two quarters things slowed down again. In reality double-dip and triple-dip is just paper talk. We're in one long recession and bobbing along at the bottom, no big recovery and no dramatic crash. Criticise who you want but get your facts right.

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el_nino added 15:59 - Feb 19 Olympics is soooooo 2012.
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BlueBadger added 16:39 - Feb 19 What are they thinking? Surely they need to bring an 'athletics man' to this job?
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itfc1981 added 17:28 - Feb 19 bluefeast about as funny as Clegg returning to Ipswich.
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kerryblue added 17:34 - Feb 19 He must have been having a career break as our Chief Exec,hell love it over there most lizards do.
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