Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: London 2012  (Read 4091 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Dan

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2002
  • Posts: 1766
    • Show all replies
Re: London 2012
« on: July 07, 2005, 03:05:35 PM »
Quote

Tigger wrote:
Of the recent summer olympics, only Athens has lost money.  I am guessing that London Olympics will make money and provide years of work for alot of people.
     -Tig


Work, I´m sure. Money hardly, unless you meant the IOC-delegates and various builders.
Athens, Sydney and Atlanta all lost money, Beijing and London is gonna lose money on it to.
As for why London and not Paris it´s a mix of politics and economics mostly economics(just think about Paris already having a up to date Track&Field stadium, thats lots of lost money for building contractors...)
Apple did it right the first time, bring back the Newton!