2012 olympics

[Craig.]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050606/sp_ ... MlJVRPUCUl
well apart from the butt kissing quotes at the end a pretty good read. Not sure if london having the games is a huge bit of good news, depends on how much debt it will end up creating. we shall see with the final vote.

[Woodlouse2002]

I think it's Paris's turn now. I don't think they've hosted for a long time. I wouldn't mind seeing them come to London though.

[Hyperion2]

Paris hasn't hosted in a while, but France hosted in Albertville in what, '88 was it?

[Craig.]

the irony is a private companies greed is costing new york the millions the olympics could bring in, over land it may never use anyway.

[ATI_7500]

Why not Leipzig? Why?  :P

[Politically Incorrect]

I think it is plain stupid to spend all this money building stadiums and hotels to accomadate visitors just for some games! Then to see all of it wasted when the games are done.
I can think of millions of better uses than to support the Olympics

[Craig.]

lucky for london that Wembly which is being built now is being used for the games. So its going to have pleanty of use before and after for international and national soccer games.

[Fozzer]

I would love to see it held on an ice flow somewhere in Antarctica... ...!

We have enough traffic, etc, problems in Britain as it is..::)
LOL...!

Paul.

I will be 78 by then, so I just hope that my failing hearing and eyesight prevents me from having to put up with it... ... ...!

[Hagar]

I will be 78 by then, so I just hope that my failing hearing and eyesight prevents me from having to put up with it... ... ...!

I'm with you on that Paul. Where shall we go for the duration?

[ATI_7500]

I'm with you on that Paul. Where shall we go for the duration?

*Waves from the other side of the Channel*
*Nudge*
*Nudge*

[Hagar]

*Waves from the other side of the Channel*
*Nudge*
*Nudge*

Waves back across the Channel. I might just do that.

[Saitek]

Would be a great source of revenue for the UK and a brilliant boost for the economy at the expense of the tax payer, more especially the folk in and around London.


That aside - London struggles now with traffic. Tubes are packed and roads jammed. As for the notrious London Orbital the whopping M25 (otherwise known as the Worlds Biggest Car Park), which is clogged up so tight now, can one imagine what it would be like with MORE chuggers all trying to get to and form Heathrow!?  Help!:o

[Craig.]

but hey this new road charge thing could be in place by then, cha and might i add ching.

[Hagar]

You have to consider the cost of providing all the facilities before thinking about profit. The only ones likely to benefit are the wide boys & criminals. I bet they're rubbing their hands at the thought of all those tourists. The Olympics is not like it used to be & each new venue has to outdo the previous one. That doesn't come cheap. Unless it's carefully planned this could bankrupt the city. I can give you two examples of how things are done in this country nowadays, the Millennium Dome & the new Wembley Stadium. In my view we would be better off without it.

but hey this new road charge thing could be in place by then,

That hare-brained idea deserves a thread of its own. On second thoughts, maybe not.

[Saitek]

Well if it comes to figures do not look to government officiated accoutants.
Take a look at the scandal at Edinburgh. The biggest waste of money I have ever seen in my life. Holyrood. It cost more than ten times what was predicted. Half a billion pounds - nearly 1 billion US$ for a disgustingly new age house. That is bad investment. The dome was only a tenth of that.  ::)