NEWS: London To Host The 2012 Olympics!, page 1
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Topic started on 6-7-2005 @ 06:47 AM by MickeyDee
After the elimination of Moscow, New York, Madrid and Paris, London has been chosen to host the 2012 olympics. The decision was announced at 12:46pm by the IOC from Singapore.



www.sky.com
Against all the odds, London has beaten Paris to win its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games.

The two cities went head-to-head after Moscow, New York and Madrid dropped out in the first three rounds of voting.

Big-hitters such as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, France's President Jacques Chirac and US Senator Hillary Clinton were all in Singapore to promote their bids.


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Would i love to have seen the look on Chiracs face at 12:46 today!!!

Go on London!

This is excellent news for Britain, it will bring alot of tourism and money to some much needed areas of London!

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reply posted on 6-7-2005 @ 07:10 AM by dawnstar
"Those who pay the bills might argue that it’s not.

If that lesson was learned anywhere, it was in Greece – where seven years before the Games, the cost to host the Olympics was estimated at $1.3 billion. When the actual detailed planning was done, the price had jumped to $5.3 billion.

By the time the Games were over, Greece had spent $14.2 billion, pushing the country’s budget deficit to record levels. Athens got some new roads out of the deal, but now finds itself stuck with world-class venues that have largely been gathering dust since the Games.

Anyone need a rowing facility cheap?

The cities bidding for 2012, of course, say that can’t happen in their hometowns. Their operating budgets are mostly projected to be in the area of $2.5 billion to $3 billion, and in New York, city and state taxpayers are on the hook for only $250 million of any shortfall.

From there, the accounting gets a bit more tricky. New York is forecasting spending another $7.6 billion on infrastructure costs."

www.fortwayne.com...

the new york state legislatures, over the years have managed to set up this nice little scheme to skirt the state constitution through various venues like the port authority and rack up an amazing amount of debt through is has been referred to as "sluch funds", I've tried to track down just how much that stadium they wanted to build in NY would have cost, as well as other projects that is wouldn't have been contingent on....
and well, where this money was coming from. it would have easily racked up about a billion in debt, funneled through these barely legal if they are legal slush funds....
I am glad we didn't get it!



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