Monday, 27 October 2008

London Olympics 2012

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Among my post retirement reflections, I wrote, light heartedly:

6. If you thought the opening of Terminal 5 was a shambles, just wait and see how we shall fuck up the 2012 Olympics.

Well, it's well over budget already and today several athletes are putting out pleas for sponsorship for badges or the like to be pasted to their sports clothing at a price of course. Nothing to get excited about there but get this:

At the 2012 Games, it is planned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Israeli athlete's massacre by Palestinians at the Munich Games. And the Metropolitan Police are going to get 'expert advice' on how this should be managed so as not to offend 'local and travelling Muslims.'

I'll say no more.

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