London have won the Olympic bid for 2012. Probably a good time to start avoiding the super-smug BBC sports output for the next 8 years… although at least it might stop them talking about 1966 for a while 🙂
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Yes, they should really stop talking about 1966. (As we all know the ball wasn’t in.)
Funny how the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish, are suddently referred to as British when they start doing things right, particularly in sporting events.
BBC coverage is pretty good unless it gets particularly obnoxious and nationalistic but I’d take it over the Irish coverage any day. It is terribly self absorbed though, do British people really want to watch Tim Henman more than Maria Sharapova?
Well, English women seem to want to, but that’s presumably for the same reason that the blokes want to watch Sharapova 🙂
I guess my main gripe about all this is that ultimately it’ll just be another way for the South East of England to get richer, and the rest of the country to miss out. (I can’t see them building new supporting facilities in Newcastle, Belfast or Aberdeen, somehow.)
Not true about this only benefiting London. After the Olympics some of the locations are being dismantled and relocated throughout the UK. So other parts will end up with fancy new stadia, not just London.
So they say. They told us that people from all over Britain would be able to visit the Millenium Dome just as cheaply as people in London, too, but we’re still waiting for the special travel deals they promised us. (I suspect it’s a bit late now.)
My sentiments exactly; this is going to cost me, the tax payer, huge amount of money and for what? The stadia will be dismantled afterwards? I will not believe that for a minute, but even if they were, so what? But I seriously doubt they will manage to get everything ready; remember the Dome, and that was just a glofified tent.