> > From: "Malcolm Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/06 Wed PM 01:01:53 GMT > To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net> > Subject: RE: RE: Time to apply for press passes > > mike wilson wrote: > > > > > Olympic games in London 2012. > > > > > > > > OPDML, anyone? > > > > > > Time to move :-( > > > > > > Malcolm > > > > I think the virus spreads as far as Manchester. > > It's good for sport here, right now. For the future? What concerns me is > that resources will not be used well. There was an opportunity to build what > will now be the new Wembley Stadium on the site of the Dome, which has > massive transport infrastructure already in place. Now that site is vastly > underused. How will the funding really pan out over time? Will it be like > Canada, having the residents of the host city paying for decades after? Most > of the sports venues currently built are always struggling for cash to keep > them up to standard, so where will the money for new structures upkeep come > from in 2022 when it is a memory? In the meantime, I'm going to be living on > the outskirts of a building site for the next seven years.
The Olympics stopped being good for sport when they let "professionals" in. While I'm ranting, they should be made to compete naked - no tattoos allowed, either. Maybe all the brouhaha would die down and we could get back to sporting achievements and not commerciality. See how much it costs to put on, then. > > I hope at the end of the Olympics, the redeveloped area has a real future > use. Or will it all be housing ten years later? They seem to be knocking down rather a lot of perfectly good housing to do it. mike ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
