London 2012

Cheesie-the-Pirate · Post by **Cheesie-the-Pirate** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:05 pm

Too right!

Fantastic stuff right there!

I saw Rogue get a little smirk across his face and thought "damn, it's Paris".

I've never been so glad to be wrong!

Wally · Post by **Wally** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:10 pm

Egan wrote:It won't happen, reading reports in England the officials have basically conceded that they will not win the bid and that it is impossible to beat Paris.

You will find that Paris is the host of the 2012 Olympics...not too far for Londoners anyways.

True.

yob · Post by **yob** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:38 pm

Egan wrote:London arent getting the 2012 Olympics...an official has conceded that no matter what they do they won't have a chance to even beat Paris.

Hey mate can you give me this Saturday's lotto numbers?

Mitchelldaicos · Post by **Mitchelldaicos** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:50 pm

Wally wrote:
Egan wrote:It won't happen, reading reports in England the officials have basically conceded that they will not win the bid and that it is impossible to beat Paris.

You will find that Paris is the host of the 2012 Olympics...not too far for Londoners anyways.
True.

Geeez, this decision will annoy the smug frogs, they will probably boycott !!! Or demand England pay their travel costs because they HAVE to go all the way over (or under) the channel now.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:27 pm

yob wrote:
Egan wrote:London arent getting the 2012 Olympics...an official has conceded that no matter what they do they won't have a chance to even beat Paris.
Hey mate can you give me this Saturday's lotto numbers?

Bam. Snap. He'll probably give you numbers that arn't in the Lotto.

Egan · Post by **Egan** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 3:13 am

1234567

It has to happen some time in lotto history.

Joey · Post by **Joey** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:40 pm

It has just a chance as any other number group

sandyhill · Post by **sandyhill** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:17 pm

For those interested -

Coe assures future of London stadium
The Age
November 6, 2006 - 11:40AM

London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) chairman Sebastian Coe has re-affirmed his promise to the IOC that the city's Olympic stadium will remain a venue for athletics after the Games.

At the end of a difficult week for LOCOG, in which former Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) chairman Jack Lemley said he resigned because of political squabbling and fears of spiralling costs, Coe said any proposed use of the stadium by a soccer club would be on condition that an athletics track was retained. British sports minister Richard Caborn said last month that Premier League club West Ham United had been in discussions about moving to the 80,000-seat stadium after the event.

"We made a very strong commitment in Singapore that this would be a track-and-field legacy," Coe told the BBC on Sunday. "It's vital that we are able to progress this on the basis that we understand what the legacy is. "If football wants to play within the confines of a track-and-field configuration and are prepared to give track and field primary usage and are coming to the table with a 100 million pounds plus to make this a viable operation, of course we would look at that but at this moment nobody is remotely in that ball park. I do take seriously the commitments we made in Singapore. These were not warm words to get us through a difficult Wednesday; they actually meant something."

During the bidding to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), London made it clear that the stadium, at the heart of the Olympic park in east London, would be re-configured after the Games to a 25,000-seater athletics stadium. Asked about Lemley's predictions that the costs for the Olympics would spiral, Coe said it was "inevitable" that they would increase because of ambitious plans to regenerate one of London's poorest areas and leave a lasting legacy.

However, he said the 2.5-billion-pound budget for delivering and running the Games held fast and that further costs depended "on what the government decided it wants to do with the whole project. (The Government) is talking about 35,000 to 40,000 new houses; of course that is an extension of the ambition and that will cost more than the simple budgeting that we took to Singapore for the costs of a Games".

the crow · Post by **the crow** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:31 pm

the contract for the 2012 olympics is going to cause quite a few problems from what i have been hearing...looks like it will be a HOK design

james_ · Post by **james_** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:17 pm

London 2012 officials have revealed the much-anticipated design for their new £496m Olympic Stadium.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:17 am

Over $1 billion AUD for a 25,000 seat venue with 55,000 temporary seats.....and it's going to exclusively used as an athletics venue afterwards?

ROTFL!!!!!!

Did the poms learrn nothing from Perry Lakes?

Egan · Post by **Egan** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:02 am

Did the poms learrn nothing from Perry Lakes?

Can you imagine what they could have done to Subiaco in the 1960s if they had developed an Athletics track on there.

Although Perry Lakes is a symptom of the insular nature of football authorities to Subiaco Oval up until 1998.

They could not have used the WACA, due to it being in cricket season. The local pecularities of that time period, meant it was inevitable they needed to build the white elephant.

500 million pounds is not that much. Remember it is easy to get carried away when converting, but over 1 billion AUD would not buy you much more in England...

RobertHeatleyStand · Post by **RobertHeatleyStand** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:32 am

Absolute rubbish compared to the original design.

Why the hell did the IOC allow London to submit the original plans only to have them modified afterwards?

Isn't the final main stadium part of the bid and an integral piece in the candidate decision making at the time?

Egan · Post by **Egan** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:15 pm

They have recreated Maracana...

britishspud · Post by **britishspud** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:40 pm

IT'S FCUKING sh*t........