2012 Olympics

[Chris]

Do you think London should host the 2012 Games?

[Jason The Argonaut]

Without a shadow of a doubt, I think London can and will win the 2012 Games. Plus apart of East London will be revived, and will have a extremely good sports facilities once built.

[Tab]

I would love to see London get the Games but I don't think it will happen.

[strongbow]

I would love to see London get it, but I think Paris will just clinch it. They already have most of the stadia in place, and the transport links are second to none. Shame we can't say the same for London. Can we get the transport sorted out in the capital by 2012? Answers on a postcard to....

[owdun]

Notice all you Southern boys are up for it. but as most of the cash will come from the lottery, why should all the benefits go to London?. The South has had more than its fair share of prestige projects, when most of them should have been located in the Midlands, where there is better road and rail access, and shorter travel distances for the North of the country. I realise that North of Watford Gap is unknown territory to most Southerners, but there is a lot of resentment in the rest of the country over the unfair distribution of projects paid for with lottery money.


Aye Owdun.

[davo141]

there is most definitly a huge north - south divide on every possible issue

jobs
houses
house prices
funding
cost of living
etc etc etc!

share the wealth i say! never going to happen though!

The new wembley should have been built near the NEC for easy access for the whole nation! no one can deny that can they?

cheers,davo

[Jason The Argonaut]

Notice all you Southern boys are up for it.

Well of course, just like if it was up north all the people from the north would be up for it. Am I right ?

The South has had more than its fair share of prestige projects, when most of them should have been located in the Midlands

Well the Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester's in 2002. The only other major sporting event to be held in this country in the last 10 years was Euro 1996. So what prestige projects should of been held in the Midlands ?

I realise that North of Watford Gap is unknown territory to most Southerners, but there is a lot of resentment in the rest of the country over the unfair distribution of projects paid for with lottery money.

Watford where's that then , blame lottery fund.

London 2012 Olympic Games you know it make sense.

[Chris]

London is the only place to hold them they got the hotels several football stadiums already in place and the extra load to the transport system will only be 5% so will not be that bad and what difference does it make if its down south or up north if you wanna go its only a few hours drive

[chunky from york]

REMEMBER, these are the people who organised and built the Millennium Dome ! The words Celebration and Brewery spring to mind.

[Jason The Argonaut]

The new wembley should have been built near the NEC for easy access for the whole nation! no one can deny that can they?

cheers,davo

I do davo , how would it be more accessible to the rest of the country if it was built near the NEC ? There's only one place for Wembley to be built that is Wembley, London. That's where it's all ways been that's where it will always stay.

I can see some people don't take to the idea of the games being held in London. So who's got any suggestions on where else we could host them in this country ?

[Chris]

Cardiff

[Andy O'Pray]

Winning an Olympic bid can be a double edged sword. A few people get very rich very quickly and if it goes tits up the poor old taxpayer is left holding the bag. I lived in Calgary during the 1988 Winter Olympics and as always there were cost overuns, disruptions to the citizens and last minute panic, Calgary was fortunate that it came out of the thing revenue neutral.

Now ask the taxpayers of Montreal, who were left holding the over expenditure bag for years to come, while the few who made a fortune disappeared. If I am spared I will witness the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Already the speculators have started to move in. House prices are going through the roof, with the resulting tax increases.

Admittedly, after a successful, revenue neutral Olympic games, one is left with a good infrastructure, but it is not all wine and roses en route. As for distances to the various venues. To go from Vancouver to where the downhill skiing will take place is a 2 hour 45 minute drive. They are going to try and shave 30 minutes off this by spending hundreds of millions on road improvements, admittedly this will be a benefit after the Olympics.

From my experience such events are peppered by Murphy's law. As Chunky has said, the same people involved in the Millenium Dome are going to be involved in the Olympics.

Aye - Andy.

[df2inaus]

An unidentified New Yorker said it best; "this is the greatest city in the world, we don't need the Olympics."

Londoners take note. You have nothing to prove. The Olympics are for the little kids on the block, like Toronto.

The only good I can see coming out of it is that the trains might run on time for a while.

[I love beasting]

London's a sh*t hole, id like to see it in a cleaner city.

[Jason The Argonaut]

London's a sh*t hole, id like to see it in a cleaner city.

And that's your reason why is should not be in London, because you think its a shit hole and it's not clean. How weak is that, I think your comment more suites some where closer to home.