Originally Posted by GAH

Whenever tickets come up for sale on the official website they are oversubscribed by about two million, the demand is there, people from all around the country are going if they can get tickets, whatever the event, and any empty corporate seats are being offered to the forces and their families, to reward them. All the street events are jam-packed with spectators. The feel-good factor these games have generated has been brilliant, all the talk of banks, unemployment, Spain, American shootings, and Syria's in-fighting is bunched at the end of the news now. Best two weeks in probably a decade over here, and inspiring kids like never before to try sports; I've never seen so many families riding bikes around the streets at weekends. Even if the cost had been twice the amount, it would have been worth it, now having seen what it has done for the UK to cheer up a shitty year, and inspire the younger generation. Sometimes it is not all about money, it's the knock-on effect success can have.