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Listed below are comments made by asbo49 between Thursday, 23rd October 2008 and Thursday, 23rd October 2008.

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Which sports are on the move for London 2012? 12:48pm on 23 Oct 2008 I think its not so much where in the country the games are being hosted but the fact that they are in the UK full stop. I live in South Wales and have no problem with the games being hosted in London. As the UK we should be proud to host the Olympic games as one United Kindom??

My concern however is the typical and quite frankly embarassing attempt to do it on the cheap as is always the case with Britain as a whole. You only have to look at the Chinese games just witnessed. There we have a country beaming with pride at being able to put on a spectacular display, they looked like they wanted the games and pulled out the stops to make it special. Special it most certainly was.

Following that would be hard for any country as the next host but sadly it falls on us. So what is our answer? Well, you guessed it, the UK is about to embarass itself on the world stage with another half baked, cut down debacle of a performance that smacks of having no interest at all. (Heathrow Terminal 5 anyone??) Which begs my biggest question. Why did we bother to compete to host the games in the first place. It seems to me it is being treated more as a burden rather than a specatacle now. I am sure the French would have been more than happy to put on a show. Quite frankly I am beginning to wish it WAS being hosted in France. The Beijing games were games to remember, ours, well simply farcical and forgettable.

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