Comments on: London Olympics 2012. Poor buggers. http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:08:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ezish http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers/comment-page-1#comment-39514 ezish Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:47:55 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers#comment-39514 Here is my blog about olympic closing ceremony. http://olympicsbeijingtolondon.blogspot.com/ Here is my blog about olympic closing ceremony.

http://olympicsbeijingtolondon.blogspot.com/

]]> By: Marketing Network http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers/comment-page-1#comment-39502 Marketing Network Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:23:18 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers#comment-39502 Nice Comics! Mr. Coe must have really a lot of things to do after China closure. And I expect the same, London Olympics have to be better than the logo! Nice Comics!
Mr. Coe must have really a lot of things to do after China closure. And I expect the same, London Olympics have to be better than the logo!

]]> By: sean http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers/comment-page-1#comment-39496 sean Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:50:09 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers#comment-39496 Forget about the cyborg made for TV Olympics, Barcelona and Sydney especially are the benchmark games, most of the infrastructure is already there, the issue for London is transport, last year 15.2 foriegn tourists visited London, I cant see how an extra 12k on top in athletes and another half a million coming to see the events will hardly impact.. Reading between the lines, I think London got 2012 as it was more focused on the IOCs mission to promote sports and not citys and countries. Paris got this very wrong and the IOC had an advanced sense of the the beijing money no object, hard on model, and sees London at the counter model. Forget about the cyborg made for TV Olympics, Barcelona and Sydney especially are the benchmark games, most of the infrastructure is already there, the issue for London is transport, last year 15.2 foriegn tourists visited London, I cant see how an extra 12k on top in athletes and another half a million coming to see the events will hardly impact..

Reading between the lines, I think London got 2012 as it was more focused on the IOCs mission to promote sports and not citys and countries. Paris got this very wrong and the IOC had an advanced sense of the the beijing money no object, hard on model, and sees London at the counter model.

]]> By: Steve Rose http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers/comment-page-1#comment-39492 Steve Rose Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:11:00 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers#comment-39492 I hope the government in London can improve its human rights record and admit mass murder of people in Northern Ireland. I also hope London can respect the minority rights and grant full autonomy to Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Gibraltar, Wales and Scotland. As the world watches, we demand the government respect its promises when the game was awarded to London. I hope the government in London can improve its human rights record and admit mass murder of people in Northern Ireland. I also hope London can respect the minority rights and grant full autonomy to Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Gibraltar, Wales and Scotland.

As the world watches, we demand the government respect its promises when the game was awarded to London.

]]> By: notinlondon http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers/comment-page-1#comment-39484 notinlondon Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:14:57 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers#comment-39484 Its Londons problem, not the rest of the country's why is the UK tax payer haveing to pay for the games not all but will end up with a big bill, but we can't afford to pay for cancer drugs something very wrong there, also why is it Team GB, and not team UK. Its Londons problem, not the rest of the country’s why is the UK tax payer haveing to pay for the games not all but will end up with a big bill, but we can’t afford to pay for cancer drugs something very wrong there, also why is it Team GB, and not team UK.

]]> By: Attila http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers/comment-page-1#comment-39483 Attila Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:57:56 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/london-olympics-2012-poor-buggers#comment-39483 Here's Charles Stross' tongue-in-cheek suggestion for a new sport in London for 2012: Here’s Charles Stross’ tongue-in-cheek suggestion for a new sport in London for 2012:

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