Nick Cooper ) gurgled happily,
sounding much like they were saying :

As a nation we are desperately short of world-class sport facilities,
not just for holding events, but for training. It's five weeks from
the Commonwealth Games trials, and British swimmers are having to fly
out to Slovenia, because there aren't enough decent places to train
here, FFS! There are only twenty 50-metre swimming pools on nineteen
sites in the entire country - Berlin alone has more than that.
Australia had 1,600 in total, 45 of which are full Olympic standard.

Why do we need to host the Olympics in order to build more swimming pools?

And wouldn't it make more sense if we were putting more facilities in to
spread 'em about a bit rather than cram 'em all in one corner of one city
in one corner of the country?