moneypenny20

A vast majority of funding came from the National Lottery and do you actually believe the people of Britain have no idea?

Wendee

I very much doubt it.

chris955

I think it is quite well known how much the Brits have spent, I'm not sure there would be much of a scandal.

rugbymatt

A few years ago Northern Rock, through no fault of the British public went bust, the government bailed them out. Then RBS went bust, we bailed them out, then Barclays, we bailed them out. Bank after bank, company after company went bust, we bailed them out, and they went bust through very little fault of the British public and we, as a people became cynical, depressed and miserable. The London Olympics had billions spent on it, our sportsmen and women got paid money to dedicate their lives and commit themselves to a life of pain, denial and at times real physical hardship and the resulting Olympics gives the country a boost, fills many, if not all, with a renewed sense of National pride without it being labelled as some right wind BNP symbol, we, in Britain realised we're not actually rubbish at organising the worlds biggest event, if we can do that, we can pretty much do anything, and.... and this is really important. The British people realised that despite the Media hell we normally live in we do actually live in a pretty good part of the world and for me, thats money well spent, it certainly made me much happier than bailing the bankers out.

Want to look for a scandal? Try asking where a good percentage of the bail out money went. I know for an absolute fact that not all of it went to pay off the debts, I know for a fact that some of it went to line some peoples pockets and they are far greater figures than the funding for athletes.

moneypenny20

Apparently spreading required.

rugbymatt

I bet it is you little minx!

commonwealth

now that's way out of topic lol

rugbymatt

Did you make your own "Forum Monitor" badge or did Sue send you one?

moneypenny20

Oh he definitely made his own.

rugbymatt

Yeah 'cos Sue doesn't hand them out to just anyone..... you know, like long standing posters....

commonwealth

you mean posers

moneypenny20

What, like me? You really need to remove that french fry, must be causing a greasy patch

moneypenny20

I had a chuckle at this. Nothing like rubbing it in, is there.

commonwealth

one of the selling points of the CWG 2018 bid was that Sally Pearson and many overseas athletes train in Gold Coast facilities.

Kapri

The majority of funding came from the National lottery and this is known by just about everyone.