The Olympics kicked off on Friday night with great fanfare.
Thousands of spectators, teams, and athletes have flown across the pond to compete and witness the games at great financial cost. London has spent billions of dollars to host the games in hopes of reclaiming that money in the future from tourism, use of the created venues, and tax revenues from development around the new complexes.
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The Olympics are outrageously expensive. I hope they can recoup the costs but sometimes I wonder if it is possible. It makes for some great TV though every couple years.
I totally agree Lance, I’m addicted to the Olympics on TV, but I am so glad that Chicago didn’t get the 2016 games. While former Mayor Daly and others said there would be no taxpayer money involved we all know how reliable those promises would have been. This would a have been a fiscal disaster for the taxpayers in Illinois.
Funny you say that, I think NYC was in the running for 2012. I can’t imagine what the costs would have been no less what a traffic nightmare it would have been had they won.
A co-worker of my daughter’s (she’s interning at the British Consulate in Chicago for the summer) evidently went home to London to visit family, but came back to Chicago early because the city is just gridlocked with all of the visitors in town for the games.
The Games are great but the committee that runs it is so political it makes me want to run a Marathon! (I have no idea what that means but it sounds interesting……maybe…..doesn’t it?)
Anyway, I can not stand the politics of it and sadly it has turned me off to the entire affair.
Thanks for mentioning Adaptu! Go Team USA!
Thank you kindly, sir! Hope things are well!
Boxing event in London Olympics is marred by controversial decisions by Judges. Badminton also has its own share. Hoping everything will be smooth in next days. Thanks for these useful information.