Too Bad, Paris........London Gets the 2012 Summer Olympics
 

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050706/D8B5SD7O1.html

I guess England can say to France, "In your face!"

What's in London that Paris doesn't have anyway?

boy that chirac sure has a big mouth............wonder how he feels right now? did his fleshy mouth lose France votes?

Chirac mocks Britain for mad cow, bad food
04/07/2005 11:53

"The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow," Chirac quipped, according to the paper, prompting laughter from Schroeder and Putin.

They really decide these things pretty far in advance.. I guess they need the time for all the new venues to be built. :)

I guess that wiped the shit-eating grin off Chirac's face.

:D

go england.

Where are the 2008 Olympics?

Funny how everyone is against France. Not that I care who got the olympics. But why is everyone against France?

People just hate the french.. it's nothing new.

Some of you need to try keeping up with the news more often...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in706373.shtml

Beijing :helpme

Me :) :winkwink:

360 days of rain a year . :helpme

Lol, and besides that? I mean many ppl hate France. Why?

Good football teams :ak47: :frenchman

I think the many many strikes in Paris have todo with it btw

women with shaved legs and underarms

Lol that statement is so outdated.

I don't like people who eat frogs







Sorry could not resist - first thing that came to my mind :1orglaugh

London is so massivily bigger than Paris. Paris is a tiny capital city. The great thing about the Olympics is that we have shoved the Olympics in the dump end of London and are going to use the money to revitalise the area.

11.5M in Paris & 8.3M in London?

The fact that London is much more bigger in territory just means that the density of population is much lower.

Tho I doubt the choice has anything to do with the sizes. Moscow is 2M ahead of Paris in population and x10 bigger in size. And what?

It's all about strikes in Paris & terrorism in Moscow. IMHO

Londons economy most def will benefit. What are the improvements slated for London?

I wish new york got it

They are rebuilding massive parts of Londons East End. Creating rail links going from the east end into central London. This has been needed for years.

Personally I cant wait to watch all the tourists getting robbed at Stratford station.

to be honest that is part of what I thought too...i could just invision a blockade on the opening day

They are doing to that side of the docklands what they did to my side when we had the Dome put in. They are extending various transport links out to that area that are majorly needed, they are rebuilding a lot of the crappier areas, installing a ton of public resources and the atheletic facilities will become public usage..so public swimming pools, etc.

It is going to be great for that area!

Paris was the favourite, but congrats to London

too bad also for Madrid, New York, and Moscow. maybe next time

i guess i'll go to london in 2012.

London, unlike Paris, is not full of arrogant French fucks - once you figure that one out the decison is a no brainer :thumbsup

should be a great olympics