Olympic Announcement 'Event'
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 20:31:43 +0100, Paul Terry
wrote:
In message , congokid
writes
I was in Trafalgar Square this afternoon. They're building a stage or
something for the event.
It'll be a bit of a damp squib should the decision go to Paris.
I very much hope that it will - they are much better able to fund the
likely multi-billion pound debt (I see that Toronto are still paying off
the interest nearly 30 years later,
Do you mean Montreal? That was the last Games to lose money. A lot of
things have changed since then.
while Greece is saddled with a chain of unused facilities that nobody
wants
Hence the "no white elephants" policy. There's a reason why the bid
team has been banging on about the legacy aspect.
We'll know soon enough...
--
James Farrar
September's coming soon
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