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Extra cash for 2012
Team GB Olympians will have an extra £29 million of funding after the cash was released by the British government.
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Comments (2)
Jim says...
this will be a typical 'london' event costing too much money which will probably never be recooped!! case and point the millenium dome, waste of money, new wembley, cracking stadium but once again over budget and not woth its building cost!!!! london and the government and all these silly organisations ought to stop ripping off the taxpayer time and again for nothing in return!!!
Posted 21:07 2nd December 2008
Rhys Jaggar says...
Legacy won't come from athletes winning events. It'll come by focussing a young generation on the benefits of exercise and healthy competition, which makes them more healthy than their predecessors. There is a definite sense to me that someone, somewhere is now saying that London 2012 must be a failure. That we must spend £9bn for mediocrity. I'd like to know who those folks are. And what possible motives they could have? My view: it's Brown and his Blair haters wanting to destroy anything Blair was associated with. If that's true, England must NOT be allowed World Cup 2018. Because if Brown isn't big enough to back the Olympics, he can't be allowed to take the glory for the World Cup. If it's property developers wanting the Lea Valley site on the cheap, they must be named and shamed. If it's Livingstone using 2012 to do up the East End then pulling out of the commitment to do the Olympic bit properly, well shame on you Ken. You know something: there will be the following left afterwards for public use: 1. A velodrome, a swimming pool, an athletics stadium. Usable for 30 years. Long-term UK facilities. In the East End. 2. Lots of new accommodation which can either be rented out or sold on. London needs accommodation. And any more lies that it doesn't and the person lying lives on the streets. Until they die. 3. A major new park for East London. Should we rip up Hyde Park because of upkeep costs? Why not? Oh, that's for those RICH folk the other end of town, eh? Oh.......... 4. New transport links - ongoing benefits for commuters. REAL net cost JUST for the Olympics? A lot less than £9.3bn. Subtract the accommodation, the transport and the venues usable ongoing - net cost? I'd guess £4bn tops. Including £500m on elite sport training. Let's get real here.
Posted 18:13 2nd December 2008