Don't mention the Olympics London 2012 (discussion of the organisation and logistics

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Originally Posted by race aficionado

The Olympics should be the pinnacle for the amateur sportsman that will later, if he chooses, look for the higher platitudes in professional sport.

:s mokin:

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That would be only for juniors competitors then. :)

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Originally Posted by MrJan

If you're due to play in the Olympics and an interviewer asks how important it is you're hardly going to reply "Meh, I'd rather win the NBA" ;)

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Especially if you're a tennis player. :D

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Originally Posted by MrJan

If you're due to play in the Olympics and an interviewer asks how important it is you're hardly going to reply "Meh, I'd rather win the NBA" ;)

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All tennis players, especially guys like Federer and Nadal put immense importance to it. If you followed tennis more closely, you would know it.

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

All tennis players, especially guys like Federer and Nadal put immense importance to it. If you followed tennis more closely, you would know it.

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Why would I pay more attention to a sport that I find tedious?

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Originally Posted by MrJan

Why would I pay more attention to a sport that I find tedious?

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So you don't come across as ignorant when offering opinions about it, for one.

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Originally Posted by theugsquirrel

So you don't come across as ignorant when offering opinions about it, for one.

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I didn't think I came across as particularly ignorant. I didn't say (or intend to say) that no one in those sports cares about the olympics, I was merely pointing out that it isn't the most important part of their year. For example, if there was another prestigious track & field event at the same time as the olympics then you can safely assume that the majority of athletes would opt for doing the olympics rather than the other event. If there was one of the major tennis tournaments at the same time as the olympics then I don't think you can say with so much certainty that the majority would choose the olympics.

As I said, the Olympics should be the absolute peak of a sport.

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Originally Posted by MrJan

I didn't think I came across as particularly ignorant. I didn't say (or intend to say) that no one in those sports cares about the olympics, I was merely pointing out that it isn't the most important part of their year. For example, if there was another prestigious track & field event at the same time as the olympics then you can safely assume that the majority of athletes would opt for doing the olympics rather than the other event. If there was one of the major tennis tournaments at the same time as the olympics then I don't think you can say with so much certainty that the majority would choose the olympics.

As I said, the Olympics should be the absolute peak of a sport.

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My apologies. That is fair enough.

Today they are touting that the games are "£500m under budget" as they 'only' spent £1.5bn of the £2bn contingency..
Erm, that means they are £1.5bn OVER budget!!

I guess the spin they’re trying to put on it is that they had allotted the entire 2B as an expenditure, but have now saved the taxpayer 500M :mark: .

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Originally Posted by Mark

Today they are touting that the games are "£500m under budget" as they 'only' spent £1.5bn of the £2bn contingency..
Erm, that means they are £1.5bn OVER budget!!

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Are the accounting for the security budget being massively increased - once they realised the original budget was inadequate? Or the increase to the budget of the opening ceremony once Danny Boyle's ego got involved? Some of these targets seem remarkably elastic and I'm sure there's a column marked target=actual on their spreadsheet.