Bob McCowan from the fan 590 put it best when he said that "If our countries workers worked for 20 cents on the dollar we could afford to put on such an extravagent display of showing off." That "Birdnest" stadium cost $400, 000,000 dolars.
I love the olympics and will watch as much as I can but I thought it would have been better elsewhere. I'm glad our Prime minister chose not to attend, But I fear that it was because he forgot it was this week due to his lack of a brain.