Commiserations to Paris, I really wanted them to win, and they should have won too. I'm in the UK but was praying that London wouldn't win, mostly coz we're going to be a laughing stock when the entire thing turns out to be even more of a fiasco then Atlanta!
You need only mention Wembley and the Pickets Lock fiasco as examples of how useless we are at getting things done at all, or them going way over time and budget and in all this celebrating no one has mentioned the OVER 300 businesses who are about to be chucked out of their premises, some of which have been going very successfully for over a century and who now face going out of business (with people losing jobs as a result), because the crappy level of compensation they are being given won't help them find commensurate premises anywhere else in the city, and as a result the businesses will fold!! Don't imagine they feel much like celebrating tonight
Okay rant over - the IOC have made their decision and they now have 7 years to live with it!
