Olympics 2012 awarded to London!!

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Posted by George Smiley on Jul-06-2005 11:53:

Olympics 2012 awarded to London!!

Woo hoo! In your face France!!

Posted by PEZ68 on Jul-06-2005 11:57:

Posted by chesco on Jul-06-2005 11:59:

well done londonia, a much needed boost for british athletics.

Posted by George Smiley on Jul-06-2005 12:01:

Just hope they'll let us field a British football team!!

(Could give us yet another vote in Fifa if they have to establish a British FA as well!!)

Posted by George Smiley on Jul-06-2005 17:36:

Posted by InterMilan31 on Jul-06-2005 17:38:

Thank god keep them out of my city

Posted by evil_bastard on Jul-06-2005 18:11:

Football venues:

Cardiff (Millennium Stadium)
Glasgow (Hampden Park)
Belfast (Windsor Park)
Manchester (Old Trafford)
Newcastle (St James' Park)
Birmingham (Villa Park)

Wonder how much money we net from having some games at wor stadium?

Posted by George Smiley on Jul-06-2005 18:37:

Dunno whether they'd have it in Belfast or Scotlan, bit out of the way...

Fortunately in 5 years Sheff Utd will have a 36,000 stadium and is supposed to be the best in Yorkshire so it should be there!

Posted by evil_bastard on Jul-07-2005 00:44:

They already decided on the footballing venues a while back but they'll probably consider more venues between now and 2012. Stadiums up and down the country will have improved by then, Liverpool and Arsenal are both building shiny new stadiums and I'd be very surprised if they didn't use Arsenal's Emirates Stadium as it'll be right on their doorstep in London.

Posted by evil_bastard on Jul-07-2005 00:51:

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Originally posted by George Smiley
Dunno whether they'd have it in Belfast or Scotlan, bit out of the way..

You can fly from London to Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow or Belfast in one hour, we live in a small country so it won't be a problem.

When Australia had the Olympics they distributed it between all the big cities, not just Sydney, and Australia is massive compared to the UK.

London is very congested already so they'll be happy for other cities to host some of the events. Other cities will be very happy to have events come their way because it all boosts the local economy.

Posted by sensorium on Jul-07-2005 07:28:

Good for them. Bad for the French.

Posted by sector.30 on Jul-07-2005 11:21:

This is ace, I was going to say comiserations to France since the Paris bid did look good from their presentation, but then I read how bitter their press are, claiming our secret services helped us win (i mean ffs!), and now I don't care hehe.

Posted by RubiK Cube on Jul-07-2005 15:45: