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Old 11-13-2018, 10:41 PM   #1191
chemgear
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Originally Posted by RoadGame View Post
https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/20041426

The London 2012 games were delivered under budget and the same advisors who helped bring that about were supporting BidCo.

Man the No side really worked themselves into a lather. What a shame.
I believe that they moved the goal posts.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...bn-budget.html

The Government yesterday issued a glowing report on the Olympics coming in under budget – despite the cost being almost four times the original estimate.

Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson said it was a ‘significant achievement’ that spending on the 2012 Games was expected to come in £476million under its £9.3billion budget.

But his boast was declared ‘disingenuous’ by critics, who pointed to the initial estimate of £2.4billion made by the Labour Government when London won the bid in 2005.



EDIT: So yeah, if Bidco had the help of these guys . . . 400% of their original budget is . . . kinda bad?

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