On 10/6/2014 4:06 PM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
<[email protected]>" wrote:
On a positive note: the IOC managed to demand that the norwegian King ought to
hold a party for the IOC leaders and additionally demanded that he should pay
their drinks. It was part of their 7000 page olympics qualification requirements
document. It is so heavily regulated that it explicitly specifies that the
personnel in the hotels MUST SMILE to the IOC leaders when they arrive. I kid
you not, even games and past times are heavily bureaucratic down to minuscule
details these days. So, due pressure from the newspapers/grassroots and the
royal insult the politicians eventually had to turn down the ~$10.000.000.000
winter olympics budget proposal. Good riddance. Live monarchy!
Yay for Norway!
