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Still I suppose the favourable treatment the hosts get might help get out of the pool.
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Ruan is gone but the flegs and anthums debate should be goodDave wrote:They are NAT getting any money from us til Ruan is aloud to stay!
Ulster is BritishRooster wrote:Ruan is gone but the flegs and anthums debate should be goodDave wrote:They are NAT getting any money from us til Ruan is aloud to stay!
It is interesting that the mayor Miss Raggi says that they are still paying off the debt since the 1960 Olympics, now since it is Italy that is probably correct.Neill_M wrote:Seems any Italian bid was tied into their 2024 Olympics bid which has been withdrawn so both fall. Given the pattern of switching between NH and SH, South Africa out of the running with it between France and Ireland?
Interesting to note that in any NH RWC held, games have spread beyond the designated host country with votes no doubt being secured on such a basis. Ireland going to Chicago in November to play NZ could have benefits for their bid also.
When you think about it it is pretty well correct, look at the London venues for example, costs were totally wrong, and venues are not all in use.Olympic venues built by other cities around the world often became “empty skeletons”, abandoned and forgotten, she said.
She cited a study this year by Oxford University which found that the cost of hosting the Games was often far more than initially forecast.
The report, published in July, concluded that “for a city and nation to decide to stage the Olympic Games is to take on one of the most costly and financially most risky types of mega-project that exists, something that many cities and nations have learned to their peril.”
Yup, there weren't that many purpose-built venues anyway and some that weren't going to be used after the games (like the venue used for basketball) were built so they could be easily dismantled. The athletes village has been sold off as flats with a big price tag attached...Russ wrote:All London Olympic venues are in weekly if not daily use ...
So they are not all in use then if some were dismantled what happened the bike track ?mikerob wrote:Yup, there weren't that many purpose-built venues anyway and some that weren't going to be used after the games (like the venue used for basketball) were built so they could be easily dismantled. The athletes village has been sold off as flats with a big price tag attached...Russ wrote:All London Olympic venues are in weekly if not daily use ...
The velodrome is still there but it is heavily used for professional and amateur competitions. Even if you wanted to go as an individual for a whizz around the track, these sessions are booked up weeks in advance. They hire out the central bit surrounded by the track for exhibitions as well, as this is only really used for the professional races.Rooster wrote:So they are not all in use then if some were dismantled what happened the bike track ?mikerob wrote:Yup, there weren't that many purpose-built venues anyway and some that weren't going to be used after the games (like the venue used for basketball) were built so they could be easily dismantled. The athletes village has been sold off as flats with a big price tag attached...Russ wrote:All London Olympic venues are in weekly if not daily use ...
Has there ever been a multi-billion pound construction project that has come in under budget? The final figures were more than the initial guesstimates but initial budgets shouldn't be trusted for huge projects anyway as there needs to be a level of detail to plan against. There really wasn't a big cost overrun once they had proper plans.Rooster wrote:They still fecked up on costs though