Poor Jeremy Hunt is getting frightfully carried away with his £12 billion Olympic baby:
“come and enjoy what will be the most exciting time in British history.”
Guido is looking forward to catching up with all the “excitement” after a month at the Maison Secondaire.
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Andrew Pierce on Ed Balls…
“Porky Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls sweet-talked guests at a fund-raising dinner by saying if he wasn’t a politician, he would be a chef. That’s not surprising, since he was accused of cooking the Treasury books when he was Gordon Brown’s boot boy.”
is there anyone in the world that Tony hasnt screwed in some way?
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I am more excited by DUEMA – it is on my twitter page and you should put it on yours if you care
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With the dire state of public finances in mind…. Jeremy hunt is a prat.
Hunt the c u n t…
The Olypmics can fuck right off!
Joint first but modded
The Drachma returns!
http://www.westbournemouthukip.com/main.htm
Let’s look at the TRUE cost of the Olympics, after what they conveniently count as others budget but is reliant on the “games”.
Between £12bn and £24bn according to Sky News, I calculated about £18bn three years ago and everyone has been rubbishing that figure for years – more fool you!
Don’t forget, most of the jobs “created” went to immigrant construction workers who were cheaper than the British, and virtually NO locals have jobs off the back of this 2 week jerk-off event… the same lies of “benefiting the locals” that where told when Canary Wharf was being built.
Then there’s the obscene pay rises the transport unions have got PUBLIC SECTOR workers for doing their own jobs.
Who have got mega rich from these “games”? The Labour and Tory politicians who pushed this, the IoC, the corporations, and the crooked athletes. The taxpayers paying a hefty bill to enrich these scumbags. It’s the ultimate confiscation of wealth to enrich the few.
+1
Bread and circuses
How much did the fragrant Tessa say that the fiasCoe would cost?
Perhaps her fiddler hubby helped with the figures.
Blue Buckets on the Zil lanes. Any takers?
i agree
the olympics and fuck right off
It’s a straight forward fraud.
1. Bid low – 2.4 bn
2. Slowly ramp up the costs. [Extras]
3. Apply the blackmail. Government has approved it and bought in. They won’t pull the plug
4. Get the ticket concessions for your private company, and rack in the cash.
What should have happened is as soon as the costs went above 2.4 bn, the government calls in the bidders, calls in the Olympic committee, and gets the bidders to say, sorry we have to pull out, we lied over the costs.
Then they get jailed, assets confiscated, and we all live happily ever after.
Same applies to defence contracts.
You only need to do it once or twice, and the scam is over.
I fully endorse this idea.
Sorry to rain on the party, but this just isn’t going to happen until the whole corrupt Westminster circus is sanitised. Think decades.
Good plan. In the meantime, for every £1billion it’s gone over-budget, two of Seb Coe’s fingers should be amputated with a pair of secateurs.
No anaesthetic.
Seb’s not from Norfolk, so he’ll run out of fingers too soon.
Cut off his foreskin – oh I guess he ain’t got one.
Shalom.
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As time progresses… so the requirement specification evolves. The idea of a fixed price project is a joke. Ultimately the joke is always on the public.
Wake up.
I wonder if the Olympics would go ahead if Iran and Israel are at war and tossing nuclear weapons at one another? Just a thought….
Not an olympic sport.
It does feature in middle eastern highland games though.
The Iranian “When you’re in a hole, stop digging” team has unfortunately had to withdraw due to a failure in the digging cessation process.
The Israelis on the other hand are to field a full team in the “Occupy Palestine” sideshow, and may in fact reinvade Whitechapel. Crack teams of pork butchers have been drafted in to reduce the likelihood of this.
and take that arrogant bastard “Seb” Coe.
I’m not arrogant.
I’m perfect.
All deliveries around the back please. Too fast and too steep with the spending.
How in the f.u.c.k.i.n hell cah whoever estimated the cost of the games get it so f.u.c.k.i.n wrong, and the sad thing is everyone with half a brain cell kows its going to be at least 5 times more than the original figure………….
I worry that it was the same people who guestimated the cost of Camoron’s beloved HS2 at £33billion.
Be afraid.
How hard can it be to have a contract drawn up that the figure quoted is the cost you pay no matter what………..Every contract I am involved in has penalty clauses………
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Penalise the politicians for getting it so wrong. Effing useless.
+1000
PS, that was to 31
We need the Olympics as much as we need the EU.
I could suggest some games that would boost attendance!
Hunt the rhyming slang?
Even less, I’d say.
Here in good old Suffolk, we have been told that the police expect to have to spend about £375,000 just to “escort the Torch” through the county. Lord knows how much per mile this is, but I can think of better ways to spend that than this display of hubris.
The whole thing is a disgraceful waste of money, but I promise I really do feel sorry for people who live and/or work in London, who apparently have to put up with daily trips through the Seven Circles of Hell.
I attended the same august public school as Hunt, albeit long before, and I don’t remember that it encouraged this sort of gushing hyperbole.
Is he going to ban the Argies already?
Its well worth the money because it will make everyone take up sports and be healthy. I’ve already lost 2 stone you know.
That wasn’t supposed to go there. I ws just thinking though, that a nice flypast by the vulcan would be a treat for them.
Saw that fly at Farnborough last year – brought back memories of seeing my first Vulcan flypast with a Concorde in ’71 or ’72.
Fucking marvellous aeroplane, and well ahead of the game at the time.
The javelin events will be in the shape of an exocet missile?
I have been asked to partake in the aforementioned event.
The proviso was that I be the competitor to catch the missile.
In my ever open gob.
I think you are assuming it will be aimed at your big mouth.
F bloody F S!!!
The word is PARTICIPATE you stupid cow.
He has a novel way of appe/aling to taxpayers.
“We’ve already spent all the cash. Billions and billions and more billions. Its all a waste..we all know that..so you might as well enjoy the party. After all, its all paid for now. No refunds. Would be a shame for you to just sit and sulk in the corner when there’s going to be a man with a flame going sort of near your house. And fireworks! You like fireworks don’t you? Want to see what £850 million looks like in fireworks? well just tune in then. Come on..buy a flag..No point moaning..we won’t get the cash back now..”
Sounds like a party political broadcast by the last lot.
How ungrateful of the Civis Londonii to fail to appreciate the panem et circenses laid on for them!
I suppose they won’t be satisfied until Boris wins the whiff-whaff.
Fucking peasants.
I personally know of no ordinary east end-type Londoners able to afford the tickets.
Perhaps they could add some interest to Olympics by including a few new porn events – synchronised breast wobbling, fastest manual , greatest volume swallowed etc. I’m sure Britain has some classy girls who do do us proud.
I volunteer for the bl0wj0b marathon. Dr Alice Roberts can do me first.
17: Oh yes, Doctor Alice **************
Now you are on to something here. The XXXXX Olympic Games, The Marathon Roasting, 100 Metre Sprint Wank, an exciting new variation on the Pole Vault, The Long Hump and Synchronised Tribbing. It’s the future.
Tribbing – yet another new word I’ve leant here
Rather nice to watch. Plenty of free videos on the Net.
Perhaps you’d like the felching event. Épée, sabre and foil.
Oops, did I say felching? I meant fencing.
Bit confusing though – you’d win the Gold Medal for coming second.
What could possibly go wrong
Plenty
Shame no-one managed to get tickets to the actual sport.
Lies!
When i signed off on the bid it was only going to cost £2 Billion.
You cannot trust the Tories on keeping projects on time and on budget.
ooooohhhh!! my Hero!!!!
There’s something about Jeremy that gives me a whiff of lavender every time I catch him on TV. I’m reliably informed that he’s also a big fan of musical theatre.
Ooh, is he a confirmed bachelor with fastidious habits? Sounds like a nice boy.
That’s Ryan Giggs!
I hate all sports except darts.
Do they lower the board for you?
Liebour lowered the bar for us.
Darts is a sport? Since when?
Synchronised swimming.
Synchronised swimming FFS.
A ‘sport’ which seems to have evolved from Disney’s Fantasia.
I’m looking forward to the ladies’ synchronised rimming. I have a ringside seat, so to speak.
I consider all televised sport to be a cure for insomnia. Hope to stock up on books and dvds to provide at least some relief from the monotony. Depressing. Always gives the impression it’s never going to end.
It’s going to be three months of hell, isn’t it. Starting soon.
Just try to get away from it, fucking media maelstrom it will be.
+1
Beach volleyball might be OK.
The Olympic venue of Gravesend mudflats on a rainy day might detract from the spectacle.
a few unexploded shells might add a certain frisson donchakno?
Suppose when it was first envisaged it was going to be the ‘Tony and Ken’ or ‘Gordon and Ken’ show.
Hope the politicos stay well out of the way
I have tickets for the Duck Upping….should be good.
No wonder I post on here.
Our gang had our own Olympics in 1948 and the big boys made me enter the boxing. I retired in the first round with a bloody nose.
OOOOO Bah!
No.wow still know how to do itAncient Chinese curse…may you live in exciting times, thank fuck David Coleman will not be doing any more BBC commentaries, “and Svetlana Nakarova has smashed the field, (chortle!), she’s left them all for dead (cums in pants)”.
Ah, David Coleman…
‘If that had gone in, it would have been a goal.’
‘The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.’
‘He’s 31 this year: last year he was 30.’
‘Forest have now lost six matches without winning.’
Anyone heard from Silent Bob today?
Pardon?.
You could do with a wash. I can’t see through you any more
was he the Neon God you made?.
How do you hear silence?
Cough when the Conductor raises his baton.
Filth.
I would prefer a good shit on a saturday morning
Ed Miliband on the important issue facing the world…
“David Cameron’s example of responsible capitalism was the chocolate orange. He’s failed to sort it out, why?”
” GUESS”
Shades of Steven Milligan
Whereas Useless Ned’s vision of society was described in ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
He wants a good tolchocking in the yarbles.
I’m really feeling quite orgasmic! – no really!
Ed’s Facebook Salmond loaded question
Do you agree with me that the Government should use its power to block Stephen Hester’s £1million bo…
But no hat tip to Alex
Couldn’t George Osborne have said ‘as the major shareholders the government (people) could have intervened regarding the RBS bonus handout, but potentially it may have caused many more problems, e.g. board resigning, shares plummeting, public losing more money, so we decided not to’ – or does he think we can’t handle the truth?
Or,
Last year Gordon Brown, along with his state salary and expenses, received over 600,000 quid and showed up to vote just twice.
Unlike Mr Brown, Mr Hester had nothing to do with destroying the UK economy or RBS. So who do you think is worth more money?
Ah, now is the time for an upgrade from pot and kettle to pot, kettle, saucepan and cream jug, just watch Question Time to see the full tea-set (and that includes you Dimble the Dormouse).
Some athlete named Bolt will be running at the “games” for maybe 20 seconds in total. What is that 20 seconds from £12bn costing taxpayers?
2 weeks in minutes = 20,160
1 minute = £595,238.0952
1 second = £9,920.634
20 seconds = £198,412 taxpayers wasted to watch a Bolt.
Money well spent Hunt? You c*nt!
And I bet that it’ll be downhill with the wind behind him.
And, like most of them, he only runs really fast if he’s agreed the amount of winning bonus in the contract……
Ask fiasCoe about the deal with Ovett.
Oops…….sorry if some of you still believed it was just honest sport !
A bolt from the blue; oops, a bolt from the black, innit?
“come and enjoy what will be the most exciting time in British history.”
“Come and enjoy the British benefits system”…. thousands will be on a one way trip.
Speak up! Can’t hear you!
speak up!
And how did the 1908 games go down in British history and the the 1948 games?
And in those days the athletes weren’t all on drugs and sponsored to the eyeballs and the Olympic committee not a corrupt organisation.
By holding the Games, Britain is in effect subsidising the biggest commercial unaccountable show on Earth. We should be boycotting them not hosting them.
Recently wrote an article on the 1908 games ,stadium built in 10 months ,paid for by Franco-British exhibition next door and it made a small profit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
… and girlcotting, dear. Don’t forget the ladies.
How is synchronized swimming a sport? They could just as well have ballroom dancing by using the same criteria
O M G …you’ve given them the idea.
Nice to see you, to see you, nice.
Couldn’t stand to see Tess Daly daily.
Well, they have ice skating in the winter olympics.
Another non-sport.
Ice-dance?
For Fuck’s Sake.
Why not have Olympic Fire-Eating while they’re at it.
Just remember in 4 years time who started this
Don’t I deserve credit for getting the Olympics for London?
Ballroom dancing would be a much cheaper option, only a bigger pair of Y-fronts needed.
that would be coz both contestunts are in them?
The Olympic opening ceremony is to be called Isles of Wonder.
Artistic director, Danny Boyle, said it would be about a land that has been poisoned by its industrial legacy and the recovery of that land.
…by the social chapter and public sector destroying our manufacturing base.
Who exactly pays your salary, Danny Boyle, and for this disgustingly expensive Olympic jolly for politicians?
The poisonous industrial sector, you toe rag!
” The pipes the pipes are calling “
I predict that the opening (and closing) ceremony will be beyond parody. It will make the Queen Mother’s 100 Birthday parade look like a well choreographed piece of theatre.
The amount of excruciating multi-culti bollocks they’ll bring into it. Oh God. Can you picture it?
The most amazing thing is that the cheapest tickets were hundreds of pounds. It’ll be Millenium Night at the Dome all over again. A non-existent river of flame. Crap fireworks. The place will be fucking empty due to massive hold-ups at security but they’ll go ahead anyway because of the world-wide TV audience…
Kill me now…
“Kill me now”.
Have patience. Danny Boyle claims the private sector who pay all the bills are slowly poisoning all of us.
The Olympics is a huge waste of money and the NHS……………..
it’s massive con!
If all the McDonalds’ servers joined hands…………… How would you get served?
You’d be a lot healthier if you didn’t eat that McShite.
Seb Coe would run even faster with me running after him
fanny batter
And why do all those lady sprinters hide their camel-toes
Because they are pre-op.
“Résidence secondaire” please
You are either ahead of the curve or behind it, Guido !
“come and enjoy what will be the most exciting time in British history.”
Shit a brick – is he off his head? I find it hard to think of anything as dull or as outrageous at a 17-day sportsfest costing many billions of pounds we haven’t got and will never see back.
Can’t get to sleep at night, well listen to Laurie Penny for ten seconds and you’ll be out like a light.
Brillo, all that good work on the Daily Politics and it now counts for nothing. Why oh why did you have Penny on the show?
0/10 must do better.
MrHarryCole Harry Cole
by liarpoliticians
Laurie: “Labour are going to have to pull some policies out of somewhere”. Well their arse served them well for 13 years.
Watching a bunch of idiots with an unhealthy dependency on steroids running around a track sure is fun. Look out for the ladies with a six o’clock shadow who have pecs that many a bloke can only dream of having.
You rang?
The biggest and most expensive hype in history. It’s not as if the Olympics will benefit anyone outside of London
It won’t benefit anybody inside London either apart from the tube dr*iv*ers who will hold the whole event hostage at the 11th hour unless they get paid…
What sort of divers?
I f*ckin wonder!!!!!
Bastards!
I think the logo design was a good portent to the 2012 Olympics.
What a pile of utter, utter, rancid, eye-bleeding shit!
Every other professional graphic artist I know thought it was a joke when it first appeared except the young turks you’d been in the industry all of 5 minutes who thought it was hip and radical – the little Hoxton tossers.
“Lisa Simpson sucking off a slot machine” was everyones best guess as to the inpiration for this monster of bradning.
Well done Wolff Olins you talentless c unts. You could sell pigs shit to the Savoy grill as caviar.
Iran said the 2012 logo really said ‘zion’ and got very upset about it all. So upset they plan to close the Straits of Hormuz so Iranian sports fans cannot row to London to see the Lympics and claim asylum.
Why haven’t the BBC interviewed Alistair Darling about Hester’s renumeration package? They usually ask him to comment about the coalitions fiscal matters. Running scared again at the BBC are we?
The left looks after it’s own.
Dumbed down BBC.
think the logo design was a good portent to the 2012 Olympics.
What a pile of utter, utter, rancid, eye-bleeding shit!
Every other professional graphic artist I know thought it was a joke when it first appe@red except the young turks you’d been in the industry all of 5 minutes who thought it was hip and radical – the little Hoxton tossers.
“Lisa Simpson sucking off a slot machine” was everyones best guess as to the inpiration for this monster of bradning.
Well done Wolff Olins you talentless c unts. You could sell pigs shit to the Savoy grill as caviar.
“What a pile of utter, utter, rancid, eye-bleeding shit!”
That’s my line
Oh Danny Boyle, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From Coryton, the oil now flows so slow
It will be closed, again the grass will grow for ever
when KPMG have failed to make a sale
KPMG have got real genius – a bit like me!
All paid for by stripping local sport all over the country of its funding.
Don’t forget the BBC have stripped funding of all sports coverage (excluding Wimbledon) to pay for the Olympics, the most high profile casualty is Formula One and they admitted it (irrespective of liking the sport or not, the deal the BBC did with Sky is grubby).
Today I have decided to be wadical. I don’t think Balls is doing too good and am suspicious that he’s after my job, he’s going too far and too fast. I’ve been keeping up to speed with the papers and have seen an ideal replacement for Balls. The guy is a financial genius as far as I can determine and has a fantastic knowledge o taxation, second only to Ken Dodd. He’s also hugely popular with footie fans – step forward ‘ar ‘arrie.
But how can I help to fill the blank sheet. I can’t rite
Ah!
Harry Redknapp a dysfunctional illiterate in charge of a mult-million pound “business”.
Remind you of anyone?
if the Olympics starts with a tribute to the NHS will it end with 1500 doves being released at the end to represent the souls of those patients who have died from MRSA in the last year.
Guido
Your reference to the article “How sorry is Austria today”
It would be a good idea to publicise the Racist behaviour of the I s r a e l i s, denounced everywhere else, rather than banking of about WW II !!
Gwido is under contract to Mossad
Get used to it
So was I.
Ceremonies supremo Danny Boyle reveals the opening ceremony of the Olympics will start with the ringing of the biggest bell in Europe and feature a performance by hundreds of nurses in a tribute to the NHS
Drip, drip
Will I be out of prison by then?
The nurses will all be congregating round workstations and playing Angry Birds then
The nurses will wheel patients into the stadium, park them in the corner, place a glass of water just out of reach and then forget about them until the closing ceremony two weeks’ later.
I’d have thought that the bell should be the in the finale to signify the event as being the biggest b e l l s e n d waste of money ever.
Stand by your bedpans …. and ….. OPEN.
I think ” I don’t need no doctor” should give us a second opinion
Good fcuking god, it sounds like something out of communist era East Europe. Thankfully I will be out of the country on holiday whilst the ghastly spectacle, in all it’s marxist glory is on.
I may actually show up for this occasion.
Guido should have used the pic on the front page of ConHome which reveals the Hunt giving a camera the wanker sign…self awareness not often seen among MPs
What actually was the most exciting thing ever to happen in Britain? Probably the Black Death.
Leave Diane out of it.
What about Susan Boyle coming second?
Who will be in t u r d place?
Looking at he,r I reckon she hasn’t come for years.
The launch of The Sun newspaper in 1964 must be the winner.
The Blitz?
Strictly come Dancing and Celebrity Eastenders cook-up on a bike hosted by Graham Norton.
What about me being ” humbled”
It will be shit. And even that outcome is likely to be too optimistic.
Legacy of Livingstone – “we will spend anything to make sure the Games come to London”. Of course, no-one was asked.
Good job that we can afford it without having to cut back on a anything.
I would love to go after all we Taxpayers (suckers) have paid for the damn thing
Anyone know where I can get a ticket from ?
I can get tickets for the Paralympics, worthy though that is it has little appeal for me, there you go Guido how many Tickets has Govt Depts ordered for those ?
If I see that smug Loed Coe one more time conratulating himself on the News I shall vomit,
The idiots have fallen into a Bob Crow cunning plan again, Olympic tube drivers will demand £10,000 pounds an hour, I have have got an alternative plan.
‘Last year, it was announced that Martin Creed had devised a public artwork as part of the Cultural Olympiad programme that would attempt to persuade everyone in the country to ring a bell as loudly as possible for three minutes on the morning of the opening ceremony.’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jan/27/london-olympics-2012-opening-ceremony
An all incluse diversity-approved event, including as it does any lepers.
MP’s will be welcomed then.
We’ve already rung the Lutine Bell enough for that poxy Italian ship. What’s worse is that the BBC have signed a £M contract + bonus for the ship’s captain to star as the italian in a remake of ‘allo ‘allo.
To be sponsored by Bell Pottingerl?
“attempt to persuade everyone in the country to ring a bell as loudly as possible for three minutes on the morning of the opening ceremony.”
WTF???
Who, except a complete retard, is going to ponce around ringing a bell?
Do they really regard the general public as some sort of demented kindergarten?
Just how far up their own arses are the people who are planning these events?
LOL!!!
Jesus wept, get over it Guido. Dr*ve, Dr8vers anybody would think this is a Chris Huhne facebook of the word that dare not sp*ak its name.
Boyle also revealed that nurses would have a starring role in the ceremony sequence because, he said, the NHS is one of things that is “unique about us… along with our sense of humour”.
eg … You want FEEDING and WASHING??????
I will be entering the 100metres. This is one of my basic Human Rights.
Bang !!!
Bob Crowe will lead in the team from Cuba.
Nobody mention Cuba’s NHS.
…. but only if they are paid an extra £2500 + triple time
Not forgetting the slums of inner-city Britain.
He he and guess who’s the millionaire?
Well I hope if Boyle’s using nurses he gets some sexy ones and not the fat bitches who work in the NHS.
I suppose it’s my fault that they are so massive. I’ve got a Vending Machine
( VAT 20%) on every corridor.
The NHS is safe ’till after the Games then.
The Department of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport is a total waste of money. If Dave had any realistic intention of reducing the deficit, he would disband it immediately. He won’t of course, because the fecking stupid public wants its bread and circuses.
Who the fuck dreamed up this enormous waste of public money?
Livingstone – I presume
Blair I think.
Livingstone always knew it would be a cash landfill. But he was smart enough to know he’d get a new train line and a free football stadium,shopping centre, some houses and the potholes filled in from Heathrow to Dartford for no cost to him.
Does this guy remind you of anyone?
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16157826
Let me get this straight: we pay billions to host these games (all monies from the taxpayer) and then the Govmint asks the taxpayer to buy tickets to, er, lower the margin of loss.
Makes sense to me.
And then gives a billion pound stadium away to a local soccer club.
There you go. No charge.
Don’t mention it.
I’m amazed that the rest of the Premier League isn’t up in arms.
‘Hold on a fucking minute – we have to spend 300 million quid on a new stadium, money we can’t spend on players, and you give these fuckers a stadium? Who have I got to give a blow-job to for a free fucking stadium?’
You English are so bloody stupid.
you did not win the Olympic bid you were set up by the French. they are having a good laugh at your expense. they knew you were quoting Vat exempt figures and kept quiet.
Who in their right minds build a massive new stadium in London without any clear plan for its long term use after the first month?
As for that Jermemy Punt bloke he is to slick and smarmy for his own good. He won’t be in Parliament much longer.
Like those suckers the South Affers and their monuments to folly – soccer world cup stadia in the bush.
The 2011 rugby world cup here in NZ mirrored what you can expect in London.
1. Outrageous budget blowouts.
2. Taxpayer money bled into conceited activities.
3. Cringeworthy promotional hype.
4. All manner of cash suckers flocking to the honey pot.
5. Inept crowd and traffic “management”.
6. Neverneverland economic spin-off “benefits” – nothing empirical you understand, but just take our promotion company’s word for it.
7. Faux patriotism – I can see Spitfires and Midsomer!
8. Snowdrifts of made-in-red-china plastic tat.
9. Early disappointment for many, shouldn’t really be here contestants.
10. Flat anti-climax – that after-party “what was that all about?” bingeing on budget crisps, acid stomach sensation.
Let’s hope the weather’s awful and the strikes are national – just for the laughs.
You can’t guarntee the awful weather. But you can guarantee the tube dr*iv*ers will be coming away with at least a five figure bonus for a weeks work. Or the trains won’t run.
Health and safety you see.
Can I come and join you there, Guido? I can’t abide Seb and Co. Why does he always close his eyes when being interviewed in that oh so superior way? Not even a glimpse at my tits!.
The most exciting time in British history? Surely things like the Battle of Hastings, Waterloo, the odd Viking rape & pillage, various World Wars etc. would rank higher on the historical excitement scale than one pretentious Olympics.
It won’t even be the most exciting thing on television that day.
It is an ignored fact that the Olympics violates the European convention on Human rights (Article 14) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) due to lack of race- and gene-neutrality in track, field and swimming events.
Here are the facts.
Some competitions such as weight lifting are organized to ensure that inherited body differences do not affect who wins. This is done by the use of different classes for inherited body differences and Sinclair adjustment coefficients. Winning in athletics therefore can be race-neutral.
But with the exception of weight lifting the IOC organizes all other single competitor track, field, and swimming events without regard to inherited body differences. Because inherited body differences vary across the globe, this results in some geographic areas having few or no single competitor event winners. For example, no Indian has ever won a track and field Olympic event and only two Chinese athletes won medals out of a potential 141 at Beijing (Zhou Chunxiu, Bronze, Marathon; Zhang Wenxiu, Bronze, Hammer throw). The example of weight lifting shows that competition could be run to remove the effects of inherited advantage but there is no will in the IOC to change how events are organized to make them race-neutral.
This is a major violation of rights because exercise is major factor in reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetics, cancer and psychiatric illness. Research shows adult uptake of exercise links to sport participation at schools. Moreover research shows that during adolescence the brain’s reward circuits are maturing and so determining whether people as adults take part in exercise.
All parents have a right that the reward circuits of their children which affect their exercise uptake mature without being prejudiced by race. Thus it is a human right that all sport and athletic competition is organized to be race neutral. This requires not only that school sports are race-neutral but also adult ones. First, school athletics/sports are closely linked to the international practices at the Olympics (there is even a “Youth Olympics” associated with the IOC). Moreover adolescents look at their potential in terms of engaging in athletics to the Olympics.
The lack of race-neutrality at London 2012 is therefore a major rights denial to individuals with Indian and Chinese ancestry. The IOC could organize the Olympics so it was race-neutral (weight lifting shows it can) but select that it does not. The IOC thus perpetuates a racially linked competition lack of success in single competitor events and through this a racially linked impairment upon health. This is a major violation of human rights for those of Indian and Chinese ancestry.