If anybody has been reading this blog, created during the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 - you may have detected my concern and criticism of the countless masses of resources, money and people power - wasted - on the Olympics. An event that only benefits a few, while the many feel the consequences years afterwards, and often years before - as will be the case if the London 2012 Olympic project continues taking its course, eating up money at a time when, some thinking people might suggest scaling back the project, looking around and thinking clearly. What could be done with some of the British Tax Payers money to be spent on the 2012 Games? A SWIMMING POOL MAYBE! Don't start me to talking... The UK Government and its sports department failed me repeatedly, personally i made a public protest against the closure of a public swimming baths December 31st 2005. I was kicked out of the pool by police and local leisure authorities, photographed by a local news team? a story or photograph never emerged, but i digress, little to add other than i was ignored, at least to my knowledge, in the Dudley Burough where this took place - Brierley Hill Baths, that used to stand next to the huge Tibetan Buddhist stuppa.
What follows in the quoted article, from the relatively respectable newspuss - The Independent - comes of no surprise, due to my experiencing the bad management of funds and un-clear thinking of MP's, councillors and so called Sports representatives whom could hardly run 100m, let alone discuss ancient Greek Mythology, Herman Hesse's Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game, or the war on some sportspeople who use some drugs. And all i wanted was to paint the swimming pool and make a work of art capable of resisting demolishion due to its value and placement looking out over the Merry Hill shopping Complex! But No, NO SWIMMING! And now the lies and bad management have bubbled over into a global financial crisis, Britain suffering, or the economy taking a fall in value.
I ASK: after the 2012 Olympics what kind of funds do you estimate the Government will have to build sporting facilites, for the public and majority of British citizens?
Taxpayer faces bigger bill for 2012 Olympics
By Amol Rajan, Sports News Correspondent
Friday, 30 January 2009
Work on the Olympic stadium continued as fears grew that private funding may dry up entirely
Work on the Olympic stadium continued as fears grew that private funding may dry up entirely
The taxpayer may end up paying to build every major venue in London's 2012 Olympic Games because private finance has dried up, the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority admitted yesterday.
John Armitt said it was possible that no private sector money would be found for the £1bn Olympic village in the heart of the park, the most high-profile victim of the global downturn which has already cost the taxpayer £326m more than was planned foR.
The authority has already given up hope of securing funding for the £355m international media centre, which will now be paid for entirely by the Exchequer. In total, £496m has already been used from the £2bn contingency fund set aside for the project. -- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/taxpayer-faces-bigger-bill-for-2012-olympics-1520389.html
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