BS - bloody sport...

Actually it's not sport I object to, it's turning sport into a mechanism form making money.

The idea that you have to have something like this as a justification for getting the kind of maintenance and improvements that a like London badly - isn't it just a little crazy?

How it ought to be would be that cities would do these kinds of primarily for their own citizens; and the people deciding on where to put big events like these games would take it into account when deciding where to go.

Not "If you give us the games we promise we will make an enormous efort and make this place better, but "This is a pretty good city, with all the right facilities. We'd love to have you come and hold the games here any time."