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Cosmic_Guru

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Got all 4 tickets I applied for - athletics and cycling. Olympic stadium here I come - should be decent weather in early September and there is usually a football interlull* at that time.

* technical term coined by Arseblogger to describe periods of extreme football dullness caused by 2 week international breaks

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probeater

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This thread is far too positive imo, the majority of people who applied for tickets in this thread didn't receive them (yet the government has stolen millions of pounds worth of tickets this week) so to add some well needed balance to the thread here's some Olympic news the goverment doesn't want the public to dwell on:

Chelsea-Ives415.jpg

This female who's a role model for the Olympics (Olympic ambassador) has finally got her comeuppance, she assaulted a rickshaw driver earlier and got away with it because the victim couldn't make it to court so her being jailed for 2 years for the riots is a good thing. I messaged her on facebook just after the riots happened and didn't reply to me personally yet she called me a dick on her wall but she seems to have removed her profile now.

I hope a few more people in the Olympics are arrested and get longer sentences for stealing so much money from the tax payer, conveniently everyone has seemed to forget that the Olympics is now running well over budget, back when this government report was made (2008) it was predicted it was going to cost £4 billion all in whereas now its looking at being well over £10 billion. This means that every Londoner is going to have to pay thousands in extra tax over the next couple of decades <_<

Ontop of all this extra cost last week it was shown that foreign tourism maybe down as much as 90% year on year as unsurprisingly the majority of tourists (as public as a whole) do not care about the Olympics as it doesn't relate to them in anyway, its a archaic throwback to yesteryear, when people thought that swimming/throwing a javelin etc.. was exciting. Athens expected to get 150,000 visitors per night back in 2004 but only got less than 10% of that figure, the Olympics has directly contributed to reducing them into the state they are in now economically, the same could happen to us!

After this olympics I don't think other countries are going to bother. Now that we have motorised and extreme sports along with youtube there is no reason to watch someone trying to set a time running along a flat piece of ground, frankly its boring in comparison to someone risking their life going 200mph+ or getting massive air of a jump.

Adding bmx and mountain biking to the Olympics is a start but overall there are far too many non sports in there atm which are just a waste of the spectators time.

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Well it may not be the last but it will be the last big budget one, I doubt they are going to spend £10 billion on hosting in 2016 when its in Rio. The return and value for money from the Olympics simply make it not feasible, especially in this economic climate.

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Graham S

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Yeah, I got tickets for the cycling. The Sunday, so it's the finals of the men's sprint and team pursuit, and the women's Keirin and Omnium. Quite pleased, because I wanted to go to the velodrome, as I've got tickets for the athletics stadium and the aquatic centre for the real thing, and it was one of the venues I'd have been disappointed to have missed out on seeing.

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Well it may not be the last but it will be the last big budget one, I doubt they are going to spend £10 billion on hosting in 2016 when its in Rio. The return and value for money from the Olympics simply make it not feasible, especially in this economic climate.

Beijing was the last 'big budget' Olympics, standing at something like £30 billion.

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tbh when all the dusts settles in a decades time or so its probably going to surface that this Olympics has probably cost us a similar amount, when all the hyped up "dual use" stuff doesn't make a fraction of the money back compared to what was predicted in 2005 or whenever they did the feasibility plan.

Aside from that, just how many times bigger is china compared to the uk (east london)? I think its well ott.

This thread popping back up reminded me that I'm not going to risk my health this summer, it occurred to me earlier in this thread that it could be an infection risk for the surrounding population (std mainly) but it seems quite serious.

London 2012: Mass gathering risks disease spreading

Mass gatherings, such as the London 2012 Olympics, can be a hotbed of diseases from across the world, public health experts have warned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16545017

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JohnC

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/feb/18/olympic-seize-roads-patients-suffer

So ambulances on urgent runs, but not full emergency requiring blue lights, can't use the priority lanes. They have to stay in the expected traffic jams. Meanwhile Coca-Cola and McDonalds can use them. Nice.

Maybe ambulances can loosen restrictions on when blue lights are used ;)

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NecroMorrius

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The Olympics is bullshit.

I simply don't get it. Perfectly rational people keep surprising the hell out of me by leaping over themselves to get tickets for the bum-scratching event or whatever. I must not have the gene which makes you find it in any way interesting. In my head it's this huge government juggernaut which nobody gives a shit about, but people keep proving me wrong.

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for centuries man has dreamed of pushing their mind and body to the very limit of endurance in the pursuit of sporting excellence. to prove that through dedicated training and ambition they can achieve greatness. to be the very best and to hear their name echo throughout time. to be called a champion and an Olympian.

and now they can. by wearing bits of plastic and riding a tiny, brightly coloured bicycle up and down some bumps.

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