[Andreas]

Just saw it on Eurosport; London was selected to host the summer olympics in 2012.

Needless to say, I'm very satisfied with their choice. And compared to New York, at least they won't be broadcasting the games on TV during midnight.

[karajorma]

Excellent!

France have had a lot of big sporting events recently. It was only fair that the UK should get something.

[Nico]

I am very satisfied too I don't like sports, I don't like medias being saturated with sport all day long, and, above all, I don't like taxes increase
Go London!

[karajorma]

Couldn't give a toss about any tax increases. All the money would be plowed into infastructure and I've been saying they should do that for years.

Besides your media will still be saturated with sports come the olympics anyway

[General Freak]

HAHA IN YOUR FACE YOU STUPID PARIS (which btw I think is a very nice and beautiful city, which also deserved to host the Olympics).

[Taristin]

Good. You guys can have it. Hopefully this'll change Bloomberg's plans on how he spends the state's money, instead of on that lame ass stadium.
NY schools are in such horrible shape, and they want to spent 1 billion on a new stadium. Assclowns.

[Nico]

Originally posted by karajorma
Couldn't give a toss about any tax increases. All the money would be plowed into infastructure and I've been saying they should do that for years.

Besides your media will still be saturated with sports come the olympics anyway

Nah, will be much less of it, like for the last ones... Greece, wasn't it? Overloaded, yes, saturated, no (they'll skip minor stuff).
As for money, it's been known for years that the subsides resulting from hosting the OG are far from being enough to balance the expenses, so no, bad idea. Natioanl infrastructure construction is a good thing for national economy, methinks, but surely not OG installations
I prefer new railroad plans (yeah, heard that was planed) to a new useless stadium. The Stade de France is already waaaaaaaaay enough

[aldo_14]

I'm dissapointed; it just means more and more money will be shovelled down south as usual.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by karajorma
Excellent!

France have had a lot of big sporting events recently. It was only fair that the UK should get something.

Euro96 was in the UK, wasn't it?

[aldo_14]

Euro96 was in England, yes.

Rugby World Cup in 1999 was held in Wales (with games in England, Scotland and Ireland as well)

European Cup Final was held at Hampden in 2002 (Uefa cup final due for 2007)

Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester in 2002

Indoor World Championship (Athletics) were held in Birmingham in 2003.

[Kie99]

The European Cup Final was at Old Trafford in 2003.

Pretty good for a nation with cuisine so bad we can't be trusted.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I hope they like the bill too

[Martinus]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I'm dissapointed; it just means more and more money will be shovelled down south as usual.

[color=66ff00]Look on the bright side: All the louts will head south for a few weeks. More peace and quiet for you.
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[karajorma]

Originally posted by aldo_14
I'm dissapointed; it just means more and more money will be shovelled down south as usual.

Well Manchester did try a few years back and failed. If you want money shovelled up north try winning your own bid

[aldo_14]

We get bugger all money when we need it anyways.  I still remeber when the government promised £5m for upgrading Hampden, only to cancel it just before work was due to start (costing hundreds of thousands/millions in penalty payments to the contractors whose work was no longer needed).

The Manchester example is just as bad; more money shovelled in there than there has been up here in yonks.  I don't think there was ever any official UK Gov support for the Euro 2008 that we lost to the Swiss, either.

[karajorma]

If you're talking about the goverment wasting ****loads of cash you only need to look at Wembley Stadium as an example of them doing that sort of thing in their own backyard so I don't think we can use that as an excuse.

And Blair probably only backed the bid to stop Red Ken from taking all the credit anyway.

[Flipside]

No doubt sticky little fingers will get into the Lottery fund for this anyway

I'm kinda glad, but our transport system is overloaded with the simple task of getting all the cities inhabitants to work every day, it's in no fit state to be taking the volumes that an Olympic games would bring.

We were going to have a Ice-skating stadium built just down the road to us for the Winter Olympics a while ago, but the government took one look at the transport facilities to and from the proposed site and withdrew the offer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1675955.stm

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
If you're talking about the goverment wasting ****loads of cash you only need to look at Wembley Stadium as an example of them doing that sort of thing in their own backyard so I don't think we can use that as an excuse.

And Blair probably only backed the bid to stop Red Ken from taking all the credit anyway.

Actually, I was meaning spending lots of cash.  The government didn't waste cash on the Hampden fiasco - it was the SFA that had to pay contractors when funding was pulled.

[Rictor]

In an temporal exclusive, BBC has captured this image from the upcoming Olypmic Games to be held in London.



Oi! Wankers!

[Drew]

thats cool, i was rooting for London