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The minister responsible for the successful London bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, Tessa Jowell (I find her name rather irritating for some unknown reason), has admitted ‘they’ would not have bid for the Games had it been known that a recession was just around the corner.

It is interesting how ‘unseen’ this economic disaster was by the very people who are employed and paid to know about such things. Already the budget has climbed from the original £2.4billion to a staggering £9.3billion and what I would like to know is have the London Olympic Committee taken their blinkers off yet…?

This could be the chance to stage the very first budget olympic games which could set a precedent for the less wealthier nations around the world to have a chance of doing the same in the future. Instead of full sized villages how about communal huts for the athletes – forget about using brick and concrete, everyone knows that steel buildings cost 60% less to construct and you can also dismantle them when you are finished.

Instead of swimming pools let the swimmers utilise the Thames River – up and down several times would take care of the 1500 metre races. And the cyclists could pedal around Royal Ascot racecourse…

I suggest the medals be made out of papier mache and get every school child in the UK busy with making them, each one personally signed…

I reckon it could work – and the people who are actually paying for them, the taxpayer, – might actually be able to afford to attend them.

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