{"id":188,"date":"2003-01-23T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/london_olympic\/"},"modified":"2003-01-23T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T13:20:23","slug":"london_olympic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/london_olympic\/","title":{"rendered":"London Olympic Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture, Media and Sports Committee has just reported back on a proposed London Olympic bid. The amount of deliberation that&#8217;s being made over what is likely to be a relatively small outlay at least initially, seems to be immense.<br \/>\nAnyhow their <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/front_page\/2684835.stm\">response<\/a> seems to be that we shouldn&#8217;t go ahead &#8220;at any cost&#8221;. Well I really doubt that Gordon Brown would have quite gone down that route.<br \/>\nThe costs of the Olympics can very nearly be covered by sponsorship and other revenues. Then there are grants from the EU payable for renovating a deprived area &#8211; and we are talking about one of the most deprived areas in the UK.<br \/>\nThe cabinet meeting is next week, but if the fourth largest economy in the world can&#8217;t put on the Olympics then it&#8217;s a pretty desperate state of affairs. Madrid and Paris will bid, as well as Moscow and New York. The US has had way too many Olympics recently, and Moscow&#8217;s last hosting was in living memory. Spain had Barcelona, so I rekon if we were against Paris, we&#8217;d have a fifty-fifty chance. Otherwise, I don&#8217;t know when we&#8217;d next host a major sporting event.<br \/>\nAs for the issue of what to do with an 80,000 seater stadium. I&#8217;m sure that a combination of a football stadium for Spurs or a replacement for the decrepit Crystal Palace stadium could do it justice. Very careful planning and it could host many events with removable surfaces and the like. Maybe a roof?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Culture, Media and Sports Committee has just reported back on a proposed London Olympic bid. The amount of deliberation that&#8217;s being made over what is likely to be a relatively small outlay at least initially, seems to be immense. Anyhow their response seems to be that we shouldn&#8217;t go ahead &#8220;at any cost&#8221;. Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}