Excited by the Olympics??

[dyna-ti]

Not excited in the least.More concerned that the powers that be would rather close down services leaving its countries peoples short so they can host a competition. :?

 

[tintin40]

It's the media hype & bullshit that gets me. :evil: Now its just about money money money

 

[feetabix]

Ha!.....sounds like I've turned on to grumpy old men!.....bah!......

 

[grahame]

Nope. They stole Eastway and are now trying to weasel their way out of providing the promised legacy venue for road and offroad cycling.

Still, only 1 year and 2 weeks until the drug abusers' sports fortnight is finished.

 

[markoc]

I'm largely ambivalent about the whole thing - which is disappointing as it is pretty much on my doorstep.

Ticketing was a farce - and I've not got any, so maybe a tinge of bitterness. However I'm just not excited by the whole thing.

The addition of a sign under the "Essex" boundary to state that my adopted home county is now the home of olympic mountain biking is quite laughable.

 

[tintin40]

Ha!.....sounds like I've turned on to grumpy old men!.....bah!......

Don't get me started Computers are anther load of ol shit we are forced to live with in so many ways. Hyped that are perfect and yet the first things to be blamed when things go wrong :x

So much bullshit in life.

the money being spent on the games could have been spent on much more important things

 

[feetabix]

I was being tongue in cheek petulant, but it's been such a hard past two or 3 years for us in the 'real' world.....I am self employed and barely make ends meet some months despite being away from my family for 60 or 70 hours a week......I'm unable to attend a friends wedding this weekend due to not being able to miss work......the olympics for me represents a note of positivity for the future and a time in a year when the climate will hopefully be picking up a bit!.......(soap box slides back under desk).... :roll:

 

[BarneyRubble]

Just another poorly conceived public project badly planned and shockingly over budget. Also see the Dome, Edinburgh trams, Scottish Parliament, Jubilee Line, Channel Tunnel etc. Why can't we do these things properly?

Not to be pedantic, but out of the list of projects you wrote above, the only one that ISN'T over budget is the Olympics. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympi ... -hold.html It is also ahead of schedule in nearly every department with 88% of buildings complete, so hardly badly planned.

That is not to say I agree with billions of tax payers money going to fund yet another event which will only benefit London and the South East. I also still find it moronic that the Mountain biking is in the flattest county in the UK, but hey ho.

I would much rather they had given everyone in the country £169 to spend on something nice i.e. Retrobike.

As you might have gathered, I am not that excited.

 

[grahame]

It's only "not over budget" because the budget was inflated so massively (to £9.8billion?) soon after the bid was "won".

If we'd stuck to the original budget, it would be way over.

 

[BarneyRubble]

It's only "not over budget" because the budget was inflated so massively (to £9.8billion?) soon after the bid was "won".

If we'd stuck to the original budget, it would be way over.

The fact remains, that before any design/construction work had been done they estimated how much it would cost and have delivered within that figure. That can't be said for the other projects mentioned, where costs spiraled mid construction due to poor project management and contractual disputes.

The estimate of cost at bid stage was too low, but only once awarded could the costs could be more accurately calculated. It is impossible to accurately estimate how much a project of this scale will cost at pre-tender stage because to work it out is an exercise which costs millions in its own right. If they had done that before the bid was submitted then lost, everyone would have complained that they wasted huge sums of money on the unsuccessful bid - see the last world cup bid for an example.