London 2012 Olympics

11mn x the price of a ticket = y

the answer you are looking for is y hippy

This is the original £24bn article..

"Sky Sports investigators drew figures from freedom of information requests and public documents to reveal the cost to the public purse could be as much as £24bn."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092558/London-2012-Olympics--335k-taxpayers-money-spent-toadstools-sculpture-Dorset.html#ixzz1sUhnVEUn

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Sky ha
we all trust what Sky's got to say don't we

add "lol" for effect

"carrying the flame from Tower Bridge to the stadium in Stratford."

How? i can only see that it will travel about 500m then have to dock to carry it up to the stadium.

Up Bow Creek?

This is the original £24bn article..

"Sky Sports investigators drew figures from freedom of information requests and public documents to reveal the cost to the public purse could be as much as £24bn."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092558/London-2012-Olympics--335k-taxpayers-money-spent-toadstools-sculpture-Dorset.html#ixzz1sUhnVEUn

Yup it's all going according to plan. (someone's plan anyways)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/price-of-london-olympics

"The National Audit Office noted that public-sector funding has almost tripled, while private-sector contributions dwindled to less than 2%."

oh so sky's numbers include the crosss rail and eurostar projects

"The National Audit Office noted that public-sector funding has almost tripled, while private-sector contributions dwindled to less than 2%."

Edzackerly.

Care to have a guess at what percentage of tickets our wonderful private sector sponsors have been allocated?

FFS - £9.3 billion and the best news I've seen is "Be thankful it's not £24 billion".

4 times over budget, a wanktastic ticket allocation to ensure nobody can see just how many tickets went to bankers, chums etc, patronising ads on the tube to say "feck off and walk to work if you didn't get a ticket to our summer banker jolly".

The best example and demonstration of just what a load of propoganda and bullshit this is are the special laws being brought in to stop anyone standing up and saying what a bad idea this is.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of a global sports event, where physical excellence is exulted and used to motivate and inspire generations into sporting endeavour.

It's just nothing like that exists.

Instead we have the tacky money-making twatathon where sporting endeavour is used as a vehicle for a bunch of PR twats, logo designers, parasitic banks and politico chums to variously put a load of tax coffer money in their pockets for doing a substandard job, whitewash their harm to society, and have a good time at our expense.

And we've all got to behave like the Emperor's new clothes are really splendid.

edzackerly.

Care to have a guess at what percentage of tickets our wonderful private sector sponsors have been allocated?

22% ?

Edzackerly.

Care to have a guess at what percentage of tickets our wonderful private sector sponsors have been allocated?
Jung, I was mid-keyboard rantbash when you posted. Do you have those figures? I'd really like to see 'em if they're available.

we'll all get a go on the track in the coming years thats surely worth £9bn ?

proper banked wooden indoors track

#can'twait

Edzackerly.

Care to have a guess at what percentage of tickets our wonderful private sector sponsors have been allocated?
So a quick google suggests the only figure available is a flat 8% without further details and with quite a few comments about a lack of transparency.

Given LOCOG's trak record, where they are schtum there's usually something to hide, so it's safe to assume this 8% will comprise large sways of tickets in the best seats at the finals of each discipline.

2% investment cost vs 8% ticket allocation represents a nice return on the investment (notwithstanding the fact the 8% will be the best tickets available and therefore exponentially higher value). Add to that your own "brand stasi" supplied by LOCOG to enforce sponsor brand exclusivity and you've got the sweetest deal.

Had we known we should have formed a conglomerate and "bought" tickets through a sponsorship deal. Much better value.

Treating sponsors so preferencially to ordinary punters - good to see the spirit of the Olympics burning strong.

"The National Audit Office noted that public-sector funding has almost tripled, while private-sector contributions dwindled to less than 2%."

If that is true.. can't we just tell McDonalds and Coke to do one and pay the relatively small additional cost? Then we can take their 40% of the tickets and give them to the people who deserve them (families of the athletes and people involved in the grass roots of the sports, like the HH coaches).

The games lanes can become cycle only lanes and the venues can have bike parking with security… and we can take the sir from Seb Cunt and all have a lovely summer of sport without invasive advertising.

^^ This is true I pitched for the design work on the park, closed for a around a year to be re-purposed, the long term plans if they come off are pretty fantastic... But it's a 25 yr plan

Waste of fucking money.

Legacy? What a load of utter bollocks.

If I play my cards right I won't cough a fucking bean for this shambles.

we'll all get a go on the track in the coming years thats surely worth £9bn ?

proper banked wooden indoors track

#can'twait

Melbourne's got two.. neither of them are from the Oligarchimpics.

Waste of fucking money.

Legacy? What a load of utter bollocks.

If I play my cards right I won't cough a fucking bean for this shambles.

Council tax?

Well despite the potential travel disruptions, massive cost, ticketing issues, crappy logo, odd phallic mascots etc. I'm REALLY excited about the Olympics.

And I know I'm not the only one :)

Indeed. Boris Johnson seems genuinely excited as well.

Pfftt!

And after I said I'd vote you in as Mayor!

sulks

Pretty much sums it up for me...

great location for the publicity photo
some run down inner city primary institution

Keepin' it real, innit.

Well despite the potential travel disruptions, massive cost, ticketing issues, crappy logo, odd phallic mascots etc. I'm REALLY excited about the Olympics.

And I know I'm not the only one :)

This pretty much sums up the olympics perfectly!