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Old 08-05-2012, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Tomma View Post
London is massively underprepared for the Olympics, these prices plus the fact hardly any Londoners got tickets (so people from elsewhere would come) goes a long way to suggest the Olympics is just a money making ploy for a country who's economy is on its a@@e!
Serious question..... how will it make any money? The cost of putting the event on is being projected as £24 billion. I know loads of businesses have/will benefit and a lot of the infrastructure can be reused, but surely we'd all be a lot better off with it being in some other country, with someone else paying for it.

I just can't imagine it generating that much revenue for the economy.
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