LONDON NEEDS THE OLYMPIC GAMES LIKE IT NEEDS THE PLAGUE
When London “won” the Games in 2005, the total cost was estimated at £2.4 billion and later revised upwards to £3.3billion. Later, Olympics minister Tessa Jowell told the Commons, that this has risen to £9.3billion, including a contingency fund of £2.7billion.
Experts believe that this “figure is ridiculous” (Jack Lemley) and that the final bill would top £ 20 billion.
The former chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority said it was clear from "very early on" that he was working to a budget of "well over £12billion".
But Mr Lemley, who expects that figure to almost double claimed in an interview that he was banned from revealing the truth.
We will never know the total costs, but we know that the benefits for the people in London will be very little.
During the Games in 2012, London will be paralyzed (looking at the amount of road works even nowadays, we have already reached the first stage).
There are lots of reasons to oppose “modern” Olympic Games as they are planned by lobby groups, politicians and officials who’s job it is to fart all day long into their comfy chairs and to count their money.
BRING THE NATIONS TOGETHER ? … what a big lie!
Olympia is about nationalism… And it is about the medals table!
Its not athletes compete against athletes, but nations against nations. I can be the best 100m runner in the world, but I cannot participate in the Olympic Games if I do not represent a nation.
Of course I (or better: my nation) will be sponsored by Nike, or adidas, or puma or whatever Coca Cola and McDonald is paying the organizers, the officials and the top athletes to show their commitment to sports. And if I win, its actually not me, because I am watching the flag of my nation going up the post, I have to put my hand on the heart (or take a black glove and raise your fist towards the sky, or just hold my penis) and then I have to sing “God save the queen” or “Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit” or whoever wants to be saved. And a journalist is screaming with tears in eyes, nose, mouth, and arse “Gold! Its gold for Germany!” (or UK, or China, or whatever).
…And watching gymnastics, where brain-dead parents forced their 10 year old to ruin their body just to perform in front of a group of spectators, which might (or not) have a high percentage of paedophiles… but this is a complete different story.
YES, We love the Olympics... well, we have to: Journalists stopped to publish critical articles and deverybody is so happy. These "journalists" have plenty to write before and during the Olympics, means...nobody is critical any more: free parties, free tickets, freebees, wonderful stories of winners (of course only pretty winners!), celebrities, losers, weirdos... isn't it all wonderful?
Marching ahead of everybody is of course the BBC who can fill their London evening news alfready completely with Olympic stories.
We love Seb Coe, and Boris of course, and all the people who will make lots of money for themselves but are saying "the Olympiques are good for everybody" without even have to explain this...And the Prime Minister David Cameron said recently: We want to welcome the world (yes, pay 1200 £ for a double room, which normally costs 150) to the greatest city in the world in the greatest country in the world (he forgot to say
and the greatest Prime Minister in the world). Yes! Welcome to our plastic world with plastic celebrities, plasic journalists and plastic brains...