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Quoth "Mils Michael" <mickmils@hotmail.com>:
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Look at it this way. Your country has just saved itself $8 billion you
can instead spend on useful things like hospitals and theatres, rather
than a three-week event -- and the Games will still be close enough
that you can travel to events easily, without worrying about all the
rubbish on the streets the next day.
I'm vaguely excited I'll be able to watch some Olympic fencing for once
(the BBC coverage of it was woeful last year, even for digital
viewers), but I'm cynical enough to believe the Games are, at best, a
very mixed blessing.
Predictably, all the local politicians are beside themselves, because
they'll suddenly have a nice big pot of money to roll around in.
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