Time to cancel the 2012 Olympics?
Posted: March 31st, 2006 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: culture, sports, uk |You have to worry about the London Olympics in 2012.
If we – in league with a dastardly Aussie construction firm – can’t muster a single stadium, then what hope do we have to construct an Olympic Village?
Yet again, professional incompetents Multiplex have announced another delay, this time slipping back into 2007 (the stadium was supposed to be ready for May’s FA Cup final). Whether this is because most of Britain’s construction industry is permanently stoned, or because they’re genuinely useless, is unclear. What is clear is that we – with the 2012 bid – have bitten off far more than we can chew.
Multiplex have already admitted they will lose £183m on the project, which is already knocking on for the £1bn mark. The whole debacle is an embarrassment.
Wouldn’t it be better to give the Olympic authorities in Lausanne a call, explaining that it’s probably best they give the games to someone more competent? I’m sure the French will be laughing their socks off as obstructive cranes and smelly portaloos mar the opening celebrations.
It’s just not worth the self-flagellation and humiliation.
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Survived the commonwealth games in Melbourne, i found myself almost suffocated by the influx of the tourists.
My impression of London is a crowded city always have people kept coming in streams, I wonder how it would be in 2012 Olympics.
It will be chaos, but Athens is equally chaotic and they survived.
Kathmandura, you have no idea how useless Britain is at Project Management. we’re absolutely incompetent and the last thing we need is the global spotlight on our collective uselessness.
Are you based in Australia? My mother grew up in Adelaide.
spot on