Still Want The Olympics?

Sco

[cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]Was always late 2007, so they've made it, test trains started yesterday I believe.

As for Moons on stick, they were clean out of them, how about a Star on a string?

Fair enough, Ninja - a pointless tangent. Olympics will have to be fantastic and offer (non frivolous) long term benefits for it to quell my worries over the costs.

paulbaconsarnie

smoke your way to a cheaper olympics themontreal way.

northstandsteve

Salad Spinner you keep details of your Extension to yourself you mucky bugger.

Charlton Dan

$2.3bn = £1.2bn

How come ours is cost 10 times that even taking into account that they already have a stadium and the Winters are smaller?

Rothko

Montreal was a summer Olympics, and they basically used it as an excuse to re build the city.

Charlton Dan

This is the up coming Winter Olympics in Montreal.

Rothko

Up and coming winter Olympics is in Vancover.

That Story is about the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

kinveachyaddick

the actual cost of the games is £2bn - all the rest is govt. spending on regeneration of East London, using the Games as the springboard/excuse to do this

http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=2088

if the govt chooses to spend £8bn on the East End that's up to them
if you don't like it use your vote at the future local/general elections

Off_it

Jesus, did anyone understand my post re costs above?

Do you still want to believe everything you read in the press?