London 2012

[angelicGrace]

Just cause you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. NYC is a major torrist attraction yet their streets still have pot holes and there are how many homeless person's living on their sidewalks and in their allys. A city only has so much money and things always get put on the back burner. You can't afford everything so to speak. It has been my experience that this particular issue is more universal than most would care to admit.

[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by Tony G

The fact that the Olympics have been in the US so often over the last few decades, they didn't deserve it again at all.

Oh really? Yea... understatement of the year!

1896- Athens
1900- Paris
1904- St. Louis
1908- London
1912- Stockhom
1920- Antwerp
1924- Paris
1928- Amsterdam
1932- Los Angeles
1936- Berlin
1948- London
1952- Helsinki
1956- Melbourne
1960- Rome
1964- Tokyo
1968- Mexico City
1972- Munich
1976- Montreal
1980- Moscow
1984- Los Angeles
1988- Seoul
1992- Barcelona
1996- Atlanta
2000- Sydney
2004- Athens
2008- Beijing
2012- London

[Tony G]

Twice in the same country over the last 20 years. Happaned with any other countries on that list? You can sit there and decide that for yourself as you've chosen to ignore the gist of my comment.

I said last few decades, not ever.

[Revan]

Originally Posted by BrentWilson

Oh really? Yea... understatement of the year!

1896- Athens
1900- Paris
1904- St. Louis
1908- London
1912- Stockhom
1920- Antwerp
1924- Paris
1928- Amsterdam
1932- Los Angeles
1936- Berlin
1948- London
1952- Helsinki
1956- Melbourne
1960- Rome
1964- Tokyo
1968- Mexico City
1972- Munich
1976- Montreal
1980- Moscow
1984- Los Angeles
1988- Seoul
1992- Barcelona
1996- Atlanta
2000- Sydney
2004- Athens
2008- Beijing
2012- London

There's something off with that list, I know for a fact that Lillehammer, Norway had the Winter Olympics in 1994. Or are you talking about something else? :ermm:

[Tony G]

We're talking about the Summer Olympic Games..

[Chris M]

Yeh - The Winter Olympics are usually held in cold places, like Canada, Alaska, Iceland etc...

Satan

[Dean C]

Originally Posted by angelicGrace

and for whomever said London was dirty and they would rather it go to Paris - Cause Paris is clean? We are talkin the city that the torrist areas are ok, but the rest of the town literaly has garbage collecting in the streets. (No i haven't seen it for myself, but I somehow don't see the 80 person's who went my senior year in high school all coming home and telling the same lie).

Well you just proved your point. The whole of London is dirty and horrible, even the main tourist areas. I would say there is one area in London which is now ok, and that's because it literally is an exclusive area where you have to have a pass to enter to the complex, is Greenwich by Canary Wharf. Aside from that, it's horrible for miles around.

[angelicGrace]

I am taking it you have seen this with your own eyes. You might be totaly correct even if you haven't seen. But somehow that isn't the story my Brit best friend tells. Nor was in the case in the images pouring out of the UK after this mornings gastly attacks on them.

[BamaStangGuy]

Originally Posted by Tony G

Twice in the same country over the last 20 years. Happaned with any other countries on that list? You can sit there and decide that for yourself as you've chosen to ignore the gist of my comment.

I said last few decades, not ever.

So often being all of twice? Which is what I pointed out... so...

you've chosen to ignore the gist of my comment.

If they got it again it would be in 2012 which is plenty fair imo.

Don't hate

[Tony G]

For the olympics, yes, it's a lot if a country gets it twice in 20 years. The olympics only happen 5 times in 20 years. So yes, it is "often"