> > From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/07/06 Wed PM 01:11:01 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: RE: Time to apply for press passes > > On 7/6/05, Malcolm Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> Will it be like > > Canada, having the residents of the host city paying for decades after? > > <snip> > > > I think that the rest of the world learned from Montreal '76. I doubt > that debacle will ever be repeated. In fact, IIRC, the Olympic > Commitee now makes sure that a proper funding plan will be in place > for each bid, to avoid such problems.
You are talking about the most bumbling bunch of incompetent nuggets ever to manifest itself as a government as the rest of us, aren't you? > > I should also say that the LA games (were they 84?) brought in > commercial sponsorship in a big way for the first time, so that > corporations, not governments alone, can put up the big big bucks > needed to run the Games. > > Congrats to London, BTW. It'll be a hell of a party! > > cheers, > frank > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > ----------------------------------------- Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/
