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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

2012

just in case it is not too late to register my vote for the london olympics.
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and thrice no.

and for all of you who say but it will mean regeneration for the east end, it will mean better transport and it will mean there are sporting facilities in the east end that can be used by all - the so called legacy factor.
to all of you i say:
if the east end needs regenerating (and it does) then do it - don't worry about having an olympics there.
if london needs to sort out it's transport facilities (and it does) then do it - don't hang about hoping for the olympics to kick start it.
if the east end needs sporting facilities (it does) then build them - why wait for there to be an olympics.

if the bid fails (fingers crossed) does it mean that all of the above will be forgotten?
or is it that politicians such as ken and tony just want to get their names attached to the hosting of the olympics?

here's hoping that chirac and his boys get the nod (not often that i will say that about the french!)

3 comments:

Hobbit's Journal said...

And the winner is .... London, though it really should be Nottingham as its such a centre of culture and etiquette.

Shep said...

Hah! Take that cheese-eating surrender monkeys!

Really don't think the London Olympics would be such a good idea...but it's all worth it for this! Imagine Blair's shit-eating grin across the table from Chirac at the G8!

Deb said...

I wouldn't want the Olympics in my town.

Hope you and yours are OK.
Sorry to hear of the mess.