Tankus Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Looks like the New York bid has just collapsed....Planning permission for the primary staduim has been turned down ....No staduim ..... no bidThere is a fair chance that the bulk of the New York votes may go to the UK for "political" reasons It may be just enough to beat Paris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 How does the voting system work then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 beats me .... I'm only repeating what was said by an IOC insider on channel 4 news .....result in 30 days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted June 7, 2005 Report Share Posted June 7, 2005 Voting procedure. Voting will take place in successive rounds until one candidate receives a majority of those voting. The ballot continues until one candidate gets an absolute majority of the votes cast. IOC members ukom a country whose city is a candidate in the election must abstain from taking part in the vote.Non-votes, spoiled votes, and abstentions do not count toward the calculation of the majority. For example, if 100 members are present, but four (4) abstain, the number of votes needed to win is 49. If no candidate city achieves a majority in the first round, the candidate with the fewest votes drops out of the running, and the members vote again on the remaining candidates. If two or more cities are tied for the lowest number of votes, a runoff election will be held between them, with the winner going on to the next round.http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/events/117_...election_uk.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Sounds as though they are electing a pope, all it needs is some smoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I hope that Cherie Blair's visit to the USA has put them off Brits enough to not vote for England. I don't want the Olympics here - we will screw up the capital budgets again and place a further burden on the tax payer. I note that Wembley stadium is way over budget and the contractor is grizzling that he will make a huge loss - serves them right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I hope that Cherie Blair's visit to the USA has put them off Brits enough to not vote for England. I don't want the Olympics here - we will screw up the capital budgets again and place a further burden on the tax payer. I note that Wembley stadium is way over budget and the contractor is grizzling that he will make a huge loss - serves them right.I don't honestly know how the contractor has the nerve to bleat. Those costing such jobs as these are paid thousands per annum for their so called abilities. The complaint is that steel has gone up in price. SO WHAT, the people doing the costing should have built such a contingency into their costings, and allowed for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Voting procedure. Voting will take place in successive rounds until one candidate receives a majority of those voting. The ballot continues until one candidate gets an absolute majority of the votes cast. IOC members ukom a country whose city is a candidate in the election must abstain from taking part in the vote.Non-votes, spoiled votes, and abstentions do not count toward the calculation of the majority. For example, if 100 members are present, but four (4) abstain, the number of votes needed to win is 49. If no candidate city achieves a majority in the first round, the candidate with the fewest votes drops out of the running, and the members vote again on the remaining candidates. If two or more cities are tied for the lowest number of votes, a runoff election will be held between them, with the winner going on to the next round.http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/events/117_...election_uk.aspAnd here's me thinking it was the Country that gave the IOC the biggest bung. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 heh ....It used to ....... who was it who said " If I die , I want to come back as an IOC member "....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Being the troll that I'm am .... I'm not overly concerned about the games ... I'm just thinking about what it will do to the local property values and improved transport links in "my " manor .....Just how shallow am I ..................?strictly paddling zone only ....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurdy Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Take from it what you can - Londoners especially will be paying for it for years to come.I used to love the Olympics but since they all became Pros it's lost its appeal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 I agree. Isn't hosting the Olympics normally a losing (financial) proposition for the city? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Isn't hosting the Olympics normally a losing (financial) proposition for the city?Of course it is. That's why our little treasure is so keen on it. It will create huge losses, for who ever happens to have his head in the trough and hands in the till at the time, and will remove some of the residual stigma of profligacy from our Tone himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Atlanta made money I think ....Maybe the lottery will chip in ...after all they blew a billion on the cheesy dome ..God knows we need the new rail links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted June 8, 2005 Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 Be careful what you wish for:The U.S. Olympic Committee made grown men and women cry last month when it eliminated Houston and Washington, D.C., from the running to host the 2012 summer games. Texas-sized tears rolled in both towns. D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams looked more crushed than Charlie Brown after a play date with Lucy. New York City and San Francisco made the cut.To the taxpayers in the losing cities: Be glad and rejoice. To the "winners," one of whom will be nominated in November to pitch the International Olympic Committee: Watch your wallets.In the same manner that massive taxpayer funding of private sports stadiums is falsely sold as a means of economic development, costly Olympic bids are couched in terms of urban renewal -- only with more odious rhetorical drapery. Hosting "the world's greatest sporting event," government cheerleaders tell us, guarantees "World Class" status. The endeavor, moreover, "will pay for itself."Actually, federal, state and local taxpayers end up paying for these athletic enterprises with few lasting benefits. The federal government spent nearly $400 million to boost the Salt Lake City (make that World-Class Salt Lake City) winter games, including $220 million for Olympics-related security and more than $100 million in federal transportation subsidies. The federal tab for the 1996 Atlanta games was $192 million. Georgia taxpayers forked over $240 million on top of that -- so that reporters and tourists from around the world could spread the word about its sweaty, traffic-jammed capital.Them's peanuts compared to the current finalists' bids on the table. The New York city proposal is a $2.3 billion bread and circuses blueprint that includes new construction of an Olympic Stadium for track and field games on Manhattan's West Side, plus more than $1 billion for renovation and expansion of parks and recreational facilities around the city and construction of a sprawling Olympic Village at Hunter's Point, Queens.http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=1854 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2005 heh...peanuts ....UK blew close to $2 billion just on one dome to celebrate our dearly beloveds leaders vision of "cool Britannia" Allthough I do see your point on the spin .........but then thats the name of the game in London whats $500 million ...? If it means that I can get a seat on the train to work and get there on time ...selfish ...yes ....£100 on my council tax ...? Im having to pay that much if I wanted just to park a car outside my own house ...Then it might be fun too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Take from it what you can - Londoners especially will be paying for it for years to come.I used to love the Olympics but since they all became Pros it's lost its appeal.Same here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Hmmm...... went through Stratford today on my way to a freebie car show down the docklands .....looks like work has already started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Its a huge site ...this was outside the station at Stratford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Its a huge site ...this was outside the station at StratfordWhy did they crucify her, what had she done wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 There's no cross - she's drawn waiting to be quartered, not crucified... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 There's no cross - she's drawn waiting to be quartered, not crucified...It an invisible one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 London wins.And I can't get to the BBC news website now... too many users I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 The good news is that we thrashed the French - the bad news is that we won.Whats the betting we make a "Dome" of the organising and costs so the taxpayer has yet another burden to finance London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 6, 2005 Report Share Posted July 6, 2005 The Dome could form a venue for this silly spectacle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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