Olympiad 2012 is in LONDON

[BrokenVisage]

Damn it, why England? And why does NY have to choke like that, I thought we had it in the bag a couple weeks ago.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: Dari
With the British elections; the EU Constitution debacle; the fight over the EU budget; the British taking over the EU Presidency; the G8 meetings with Blair dreams of ending African debt popular; and the Olympics win for London, that guy is sitting on top of the world. The triumph of perfidious Albion.

Chirac sucks.

With French economic problems, the debate over the farming subsidies, lack of popular support for Chirac and now the kick in the teeth of not getting the Olympics, Chirac is sitting on top of a dung heap.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Lonyo

Originally posted by: Dari
With the British elections; the EU Constitution debacle; the fight over the EU budget; the British taking over the EU Presidency; the G8 meetings with Blair dreams of ending African debt popular; and the Olympics win for London, that guy is sitting on top of the world. The triumph of perfidious Albion.

Chirac sucks.

With French economic problems, the debate over the farming subsidies, lack of popular support for Chirac and now the kick in the teeth of not getting the Olympics, Chirac is sitting on top of a dung heap.

Yeah but you know the French, they'll blame the US for it!

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: spherrod
I'm sure Blair will enjoy meeting Chirac at G8 now...

Ha ha ha, suck it Jaque!

 

[rh71]

I wonder what this means for the West Side Stadium in NY now...

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: rh71
I wonder what this means for the West Side Stadium in NY now...

Would you really want that many extra people in NY, especially for rush hour?

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: rh71
I wonder what this means for the West Side Stadium in NY now...

Would you really want that many extra people in NY, especially for rush hour?

exactly my point - I hope it means buhbye. I hate the gdamn traffic around the city as it is.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: NFS4
France owned again.

Well... they beat us, so I'm not sure if that's something to gloat about.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: rh71
I wonder what this means for the West Side Stadium in NY now...

Would you really want that many extra people in NY, especially for rush hour?

exactly my point - I hope it means buhbye. I hate the gdamn traffic around the city as it is.

Uh...it was shot down last month, they're fixing up Shea instead (regardless of the loss of the Olympics).

 

NYC got pwned. We had no chance of getting it hosted here. Glad to see it went to London. We don't need anymore traffice here.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: NFS4
France owned again.

Sweet.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: dwell
NYC got pwned. We had no chance of getting it hosted here. Glad to see it went to London. We don't need anymore traffice here.

And London does?

 

[isasir]

I'm just glad it's not in NY.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Damn it, why England? And why does NY have to choke like that, I thought we had it in the bag a couple weeks ago.

You were never close. Perhaps some of the promoters tried to make it sound like you had a chance, but were really never in contention.

 

[The Green Bean]

wohoo its in London

 

[mcvickj]

Bummer. I had an interest in attending the games if it was in NY. At least it isn't France.

 

[EKKC]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Damn it, why England? And why does NY have to choke like that, I thought we had it in the bag a couple weeks ago.

blame stupid ny politicians for fighting against the west side stadium for no obvious reason. why would the IOC give the olympics to a city who at the last month finally decided to kill the west side stadium and as a last resort threw up a plan for shea stadium.

i think the new shea stadium is still happening, so the mets will get a new home, just that it wont get converted to a olympic stadium and they dont have to share with the yankees in 2011.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Damn it, why England? And why does NY have to choke like that, I thought we had it in the bag a couple weeks ago.

blame stupid ny politicians for fighting against the west side stadium for no obvious reason. why would the IOC give the olympics to a city who at the last month finally decided to kill the west side stadium and as a last resort threw up a plan for shea stadium.

i think the new shea stadium is still happening, so the mets will get a new home, just that it wont get converted to a olympic stadium and they dont have to share with the yankees in 2011.

NYC never really had a chance anyway. The IOC would almost surely hold off giving another olympics to the US. In the last 30 years the olympics have been in Lake Placid, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Salt Lake City. The 1976 games had been awarded to Denver, but they turned them down in 1972. So that's a combined total of 5 games awarded to the US over a 30 yr period, so to give another to the americans would be almost a certain no go. Of course between the SLC and what would have been the NYC games there would have been a 10 year gap.

 

Originally posted by: Lonyo
And London does?

That's DannyBoy's problem Where is that Brit?