hanouda

Massive white elephant. See if you can find the stadium from the 1908 games on a map of London. This will probably go the same way.

retired_yesmoncar

Ridiculous building an 80,000 stadium with no feasible long term plan.

retired_edsel25

I think the Olympics coming to this country can be looked at from both a positive and negative angle. I mean yes it will increase tourism and therefore income to the country which can only be a good thing.

But the spiralling costs i'm sure the government knew from the start, they should have been more forthcoming with their figures imo...the dispatches show on c4 shows the government knew about rising costs long before they were announced publically.

But i guess only time will tell.

retired_yesmoncar

You can't look at it from a purely financial angle.

The social impacts should be impressive.

retired_susan mcdonald

financially and socially the Olympics will make a profit. it's just impossible for it not to.

retired_ehicks84

looks fine. supposed to be wrapped in canvas or something, so they can play various images on the sides of the stadium. or something like that.

any chance of it getting built in time?

retired_ehicks84

don't countries like, almost always make a loss?

retired_tripaige

which 3 are bigger?

retired_leverne

what a rubbish stadium for so much money, its basically a scaled down version of Wembley

mattsaunders

£496m :eek:

And people moaned about Wembley