The Olympics are like landfills. No economically healthy city with reasonable citizen power seems to want them. Only politicians do.
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... secondary school instead of the olympics. Worked out at (IIRC) something like £5,000 a year each to spend on sport, in perpetuity.
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now why would that possibly be? ;-) I suspect we've seen the last in a functioning democracy.
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in the uk it's crowded out other sport funding. I once calculated the size of the endowment for sports we could give to every ...





