Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! That is all we get here is tourists. It would have brought new jobs and businesses here. I want to know who is buying that land the Jets wanted to use as there staduim. Cablevision made a socalled offer of 600 million are they buying it now or not? Or was that a bullshiit offer. Now that the Stadium is off the table is MSG offer also off the table. If it is what should we do about Cablevision give them a free pass?
Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! Thank MSG for that. I don't recall ever seeing Bloomburg, Clinton and the other NYC senator ever in a advertisement on tv together promoting the games. I guess it was because two were demos and the other one was a rep/demo. Politics are more important to them rather then getting the olympics. Clintons trip to Hong Kong was merely to cover her blabby arse.
Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! Moscow, New York City and Madrid have been elimated which means Paris has basicly won.
Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! The moment has arrived... It's between London and Paris... Rogge to the podium...droning on and on...get to it, man... Thousands in front of City Hall in the City of Light and among the Lions in Trafalgar... And the winner is... LONDON!
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Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! Jesus. The English won something against the French. Take that ya froggy bastards! I'm kinda happy and sad really. Would have liked to have seen Paris get it, because I have deep and emotional memories of a spending summer there during the World Cup with my parents. The atmosphere in the little streets and amongst the locals was fantastic. But, seeing as it is in my capital city (some 300 odd miles from where I live though) I can't say I shall be thrilled that it is right next door. Still. Its not that out of reach and if improves the public transport and facilities over there, then so be it. I'll support it whole-heartedly seeing as we've got it. Guess I'll always love Paris - but quite clearly Chirac is now going to get a barrage of abuse. The guy probably couldn't win a game of tick-tack-toe right about now.
Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! I would have preferred it in Paris; Eh. No biggie. No question that Chirac will get the extended smackdown...
Re: Olympics 2012, NYC!!!!!! And the people regurgitating what's been spoon-fed to them about New York not needing more tourists as if that's the real issue. And since when more tourism is a bad thing, except for argument sake and for this particular anti-Olympics effort? Special interests have won as usual, so long as the media is on their side. A sad sight indeed. Sabotage at its best. We were doomed from the beginning............. Congrats to London!!!
I just wanna see how the development in london turns out. Are there people living where they plan to build the stadiums and what not?
Couldn't of happened to a nicer city. Congrats London. I think this puts NYC on the top of the list for 2016.
I think the way we hosted the Commonwealth games in Manchester could have tipped the balance in our favour....
Only if Chirac hadn't said what he said about British and Finnish cuisines........ Finland had two votes.
This should make the dinner at Gleneagles tomorrow night extra special. I say we arrange a special meal for Chirac. Like a Happy Meal, for instance.
The only thing funnier would have been if it was Berlin. Remind me never to have Chirac campain for anything I want ever.
I wouldn't mind London getting the games... ...if I hadn't have lost the $30 I put on Paris! Son of a bitch.
This isn't far from what happened, my on-site (Singapore) BOC friends are telling me, AFATK. Of course, the whole thing is absurd in a way, b/c the people get behind a World Games where only 40% of the process (the candidature document) is transparent, and the rest is politics behind the scenes, done to politicians by politicians in a purely political environment. You can rest assured that whichever side lost this is asking these questions, and that the winner thinks the same, but that they're better at it than the others, which of course they are. I'ts just ironic that people, regular people, would put their energy behind a process that was less than transparent. For London, they better hope that the wave of sport energy is more like Barcelona than it is Montreal or Atlanta. That's their LOC's only job. My work has to do with development of a model that critically examines the effect of Olympiads on human rights in Olympic cities; it will be interesting to employ that model on an ostensible democratic environ like the London MSA.