So much for Paris then !
yehaw - take that chirac !
One in the eye for the ole enemies Spain and France then…first Trafalgar now this…I hate to think what the prices in London are going to be like…better book a B&B now!
Great news.
But you and you and sjd are so predictable. Keep the competitiveness for your races rather than derogative comments about other countries and their leaders. Every country who made a bid worked bloody hard.
Stop whining and go long of UK hotel groups, builders et al…
Did I say I was against it?
That’s why I thought Madrid was the best choice.
Paris - too many bloody strikes by RATP and SNCF, would be a total nightmare during the games, and city very expensive
London - really really expensive
Both are fun cities nonetheless…but I preferred Madrid.
Madrid would have been nice for sure.
I think they should have chosen Oxford. A right old toff of a town. They could have done the running in university gowns!
the swimming in univ. gown would have been interesting 
London will be really expensive but the sailing is on the south coast in Weymouth which i’ll be watching by telescope from my parents lounge. Cool !
so could the curling
oh sorry, it’s not the winter olympics is it. Doh
Having said that, it’s 7 years down the line - who knows what the climate will be like then. We’ll either have an ice age or it will be as hot as El P!
you’re still gonna be living with your parents in 7 years???
I’m not there now (30’s a bit old for that)!!! But I might be making a few visits down there in 7 years.
LOL…touche!
Parents do have their uses eh!
News just in…
“triathletes in the London Olympics will be offered grilled rat burgers on the bike course”
I didn’t even know they had a summer in England? Does the sun ever actually come out there? 
You really should have put spoiler in the title, some of us were waiting until we got home and watched the news to find this out. My whole day is ruined now.
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Well spain’s had their turn at Barcelona, Russia’a too poor. Paris, New York and London all great venues. But as sperera points out London ain’t cheap.
The one that’s really got my goat is Beijing 2008. Them frikkin Commies have got am appalling human rights record, they’re a nation of the rudest people starting from the moment you hit the airport, they together with the Vietnamese have got this insatiable greed that permeates right from the bottom to the top echelons of their society and they’re ultra Nationalistic much like Germany and Japan were in WWII. They’ve got Hong Kong and Macau and even with their country’s great continued economic growth they can’t wait to get their grimy handa on Taiwan which they have absolutely no right to.
It sucks how the international governments or specifically the IOC making political representation has given it to China because of their economic standing. That’s one big mutha country run by power hungry old fart dictators full of Chinamen with bad attitudes toward their fellow human beings. If you speak Mandarin and ever set foot in China this phenomena is very obvious. Just something about this Commi/Asian/turned capitalist mix, frikkin bad news.