One month from today we shall know where the next-but-one summer Olympic Games will be held. My English friends who live in London hate the thought that they might be held there except those who can go away and let out their houses or apartments for some exorbitant fee.
Anyway, a sizeable minority (about a third) of Londoners and almost the same proportion in the UK as a whole are hoping, with good reason, that London won't win. The Athens Games eventually cost the Greek population between $10 and $12 billion and the Chinese have budgeted $23 billion for the 2008 Olympic games – seven times more than the Sydney games. What chance is there of London sticking to its present guess of $4.33 billion?
For me, the English venue for the sailing - the only sport that interests me - sounds pretty dreary (Weymouth) and I'd be happier if the games went to Paris - the French will have the sailing events in La Rochelle which would be much nicer.
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Edward Cabot Ames III
This is where I write about the pleasures of a gentle life in Boston and anything else that takes my fancy
TEDDY III
Edward Cabot Ames III
Location: Boston, Mass, US
Leading a very happy and busy life in the home of the bean and the cod. Perhaps the only male within 30 miles to whom the fortunes of the Red Sox are a matter of complete indifference. Unfortunately my partner Nastasia takes an interest in them but I think it's only their thighs she admires. We spend about four months of the year in Europe - Switzerland and France mostly. I am really serious about getting a job some time soon. But I aim to be in the America's Cup Team before I am 30.
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