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Originally Posted by carlwaring
Source for this figure please. I can only find £9.4bn and £24bn (though that wasn't a very thorough search  ) |
The British House of Commons Public Accounts Committee puts the figure around 11 billion Pounds ($17.31 billion); Games Monitor calculates costs at 13 billion Pounds ($20.45 billion); but a Sky Sports investigative report estimates that, including public transport upgrades, the price tag will be closer to 24 billion Pounds ($37.76 billion)]
http://youxie.ca/sports-scholar-how-...-west/?lang=zh
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
To be honest I never thought that the point of hosting the Olympics was to make money.Or to even break even.
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Neither do I, I'd have just preferred it if we hadn't been screwed over so royally...