great news!!!
lets just hope we can fill the seats - would hate a uk olympics to look as empty as athens did!
I just hope their is a plan in place for the venues after the games.
Great stuff.....I wonder if the Finland vote had anything to do with it..?Jacques Chirac is Frances answer to our Prince Philip when putting your foot in it!!
Does talk of 'frogs' not violate the AUP?
ever the cynic, just wish they put as much effort behind the birmingham & manchester bids (there up north-beyond the M25, for those of you in london)
*ducks in anticipation of the hail of bullets*
They may of won it,but I think you will find most people don't want Tonight did a poll and 70% of those who voted didn't want to the fact we are hopeless when it comes to the Olympics apart from the odd gold medal here and there.
i dont want to put a dampner on the whole we won we got the games, but its the folks in london that are going to have to pay for this in their taxes. now australia is the only country ever to make a profit from the games and us brits have a habbit of building things and saying it will cost x amount of pounds when in reality it costs more like xxxxx amount. hope it will be worth it.
x rache x
well i dunno if you remember,but we all paid for the millenium dome,only to have it lay idle for god know`s how long,and obviously we are gonna be paying for the olympics ,so hopefully the goverment wont fuck it up,as it usually 2 fingers to france ,hopefully we wont be paying for another white elephant,but that remains to be seen.
WITH YOUR LONG BLACK HAIR
AND GARLIC BREATH
YOU ARE FRENCH
AND WE HATE YOU
vive la difference !!! swingingheaven the great british grande fromage
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hi all
we are all smiling now, and are happy that London is the host city for 2012....but, during the next seven years taxes will be raised to pay for the event..i am happy for London, it will create lots of jobs in the stratford area....but then again i am cynical, and believe that no one else will benefit from this major world event, apart from London itself. although i cant see the stadium becoming a huge white rabbitt that the dome became, a possible solution would be that the milton keyne dons could move back to London, and become great again with Vinny Jones as a newly Appointed manager. going off on one there alittle sorry.......But well Dome..Done London...christ i've just realised i'll be 40....in 2012
sophiebifem
yes and the construction industry ,,will absolutely reap the rewards
we will get pay increases ,,more overtime,,bonusus
and be able to watch parts of the proceedings from incomplete stadia
Hopefully it will kickstart an interest in sports in this country, and that the new venues created for this will be put to good use.
More interest in sport = a fitter population
A fitter population = less heart attacks and less drain on the NHS
So maybe in the long run the olympics (and other sporting events) will save the country money... or at least stir up a bit of pride that our capital city beat the likes of New York, Paris etc
well done london
we now have the games here
its about time the goverment started putting monet towards schools of excellence for talented young sports people just like the aussies do it would be very embarrasing to be hosting the games and not performing
colin