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Originally Posted by Chris
The Games were awarded to London in 2005 and at the time a lot of other countries wanted it. Including France, which wanted to bring the Olympics to Paris. The economies of the West were doing perfectly nicely as well (or so it seemed).
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but any thought that we were somehow saddled with an expense we couldn't afford at a time when nobody else was stupid enough to take it on is just fanciful.
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Even at the time, the country couldn't afford the olympics, as it was steadily getting into debt.
The trouble is that the IOC seem to have too much power. If they say jump, then our government will say how high.