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Daft Olympic legacy

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    #21
    How about holding an X Games type event?

    X Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #22
      Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
      A holding centre for zombies?
      If you know the story, it's more of a transit centre...
      Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

      C.S. Lewis

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        #23
        How about a return to gladiatorial games?

        Labour vs Tory
        Socialists vs lions and tigers
        Asylum seekers vs skinheads


        I'm sure we could pack in the punters.

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          #24
          Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
          How about a return to gladiatorial games?
          And this is how in your view Britain should preserve Olympic athletics legacy?

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            #25
            Why is it an issue if Tottenham Hotspur don't play in Tottenham? Manchester United don't play in Manchester and nobody cares too much about that.

            Having a big stadium in an inaccessible part of London just for Athletics is a ridiculous idea.
            Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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              #26
              Originally posted by Alf W View Post
              Manchester United don't play in Manchester and nobody cares too much about that.
              Well, that's like Old Trafford to W Mosley St - Google Maps 3 miles from Old Trafford to Manchester's city center.

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                #27
                Originally posted by suityou01 View Post
                I thought you were a fat lad. Or is it ogling women in leotards that gets you interest?
                Erm there is Olympics beach volleyball where quite sensibly they have strict rules to make sure the women are wearing skimpy clothes
                Doing the needful since 1827

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Alf W View Post
                  Why is it an issue if Tottenham Hotspur don't play in Tottenham? Manchester United don't play in Manchester and nobody cares too much about that.

                  Having a big stadium in an inaccessible part of London just for Athletics is a ridiculous idea.
                  The problem raised is that the Olympic stadium is on the doorstep of both West Ham and Leyton Orient. They feel Spurs will take their support.

                  Regarding the name, they probably wouldn't be told to change it, but there is a new rule about that. Moving grounds happens all the time, but since Wimbledon moved to Milton Keynes the new rule stops clubs who move outside their "community" retaining the community's name (ironic as Wimbledon hadn't played in their community for the ten years before that anyway).

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
                    Because the 2012 GB Olympic Committee had no foresight when they got all dewy-eyed about Olympic legacy (take a bow Seb Coe, Tessa Jowell and Ken Livingstone), we'll be left with one of:
                    1. A white elephant athletics venue, hardly used
                    2. West Ham playing in a half-empty stadium with the worst views of the pitch in the country
                    3. Spurs playing in West Ham's manor having knocked the bloody thing down and started again

                    Which would be the most sensible option?
                    4. West Ham playing in a half-empty stadium with a massive pitch.
                    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                      #30
                      Why did Spurs want this stadium anyway?

                      Why not re-develop WHL?

                      Is it because they wanted a bigger stadium than the plot at WHL would support?

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