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I heard they are spending 27 million just on the opening ceremony complete with rain and farm animals
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Originally posted by Old Hack View PostOur kids wanted to go. I would have preferred to have been sliced in my testicles, repeatedly, with rusty used Gillette GII's, so we have bribed them with 6 weeks in France so we can avoid the whole shebang.
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Originally posted by kaiser78 View PostOlympic legacy, kids and all that...
I couldn't imagine anything worse, than a weekend/weekday in an already crammed full to busting capital, with millions more people and, allegedly, more sun, using an antiquated infrastructure.
Enjoy though, just not my bag. £150? Sheesh
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Originally posted by kaiser78 View PostProbably explains why my Olympics swimming tickets are costing £150 a pop.
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The games were never going to come in under budget. A couple of months ago an IOC official was on LBC and admitted the budget submitted in the hosting bid was deliberately low (ie as a loss leader) so as to ensure cost didn't blow out the London bid.
Probably explains why my Olympics swimming tickets are costing £150 a pop.
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They made massive savings by only using a few goats and cows for the opening ceremony.
HTH
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I know, this really tickled me. It's akin to listening to MF for financial advice....
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Olympics - Under budget? Nope...
But if you spin it right... BBC News - London Olympics 'to come in £476m under budget'
The £9.3bn budget, which included a £2bn contingency, was set in 2007 and was almost four times the estimated cost at the time London bid in 2005.
The budget was revised upwards after taking into account previously overlooked costs such as VAT, increased security costs, and an expanded brief for the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) to regenerate the lower Lea Valley area.
If i managed budgets in this manner, my client would have me off site before he could get his shoe back from up my backside!
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