Facilities and equipment to meet training needs of the Olympic athletes are likely to be provided at the proposed world-class sports village at Odsal Stadium.

Bradford Council and Bradford Bulls are considering the effect of the games on the village before submitting the planning application by the end of the year for the multi-million-pound complex.

Today, project manager Simon Woodhurst said the size and content of the stadium would remain the same as originally planned.

"But we are still working on the flexibility in response to the decision to hold the 2012 Olympic games in London.

"The situation also opens other funding channels to be considered.

"But the overall objective is still to meet the needs of local people and give them top class facilities," said Mr Woodhurst.

The Bulls and Bradford Council are working in partnership to create the village, which has won the support of Sport England and regeneration agency Yorkshire Forward.

The village will include a world-class sports centre and swimming pool, new pitch, changing facilities and stand for Bradford Park Avenue Football Club, an eight-lane athletics track, three outdoor playing pitches with a state-of-the-art synthetic surface, and one grass pitch.

There would also be a cricket field and pavilion and cycle track. Informal landscaped areas where the public could walk, jog and exercise have a been included.

Chris Caisley, chairman of the newly crowned Super League champions said: "Whilst the city centre redevelopment is important, by far the most important project we have within our grasp is the proposed Odsal sporting village.

"We need to get more of the community involved in sport and recreation, particularly our young people.

"If we can achieve that, it will not only be a great start in the efforts to cure the city's oft criticised for obesity and other health problems.

"It will also energise a lot of youngsters who at present do not have a lot to look forward to and show them is a lot to be gained from sport.

"We at the Bulls are happy to play our part in the process and use our expertise to get people more involved in sport and recreation.

"But the sporting village is a first vital step to improving the city's very poor sporting facilities.

"We need to step up a gear and get the scheme approved by planners as quickly as possible - within weeks, not months.

"The time is right, with respect to the Olympics in 2012, with the enormous publicity that the Bull's latest championship win has generated for the city.

"The sporting village is just the start but it will mean that more and more people from Bradford and the surrounding areas can use it."