London 2012

[altogetherisi]

 I can't stop watching the Olympics!

I've been fairly skeptical about London hosting for the whole 7 years of build up - it's meant for other people, it's ridiculously expensive,  it would mess up the summer, wtf is that weird red tower thing all about, why does that football club want to destroy the Olympic stadium before it's even been used, that

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[arkeiryn]

As far as I can tell, dressage is basically look pretty on a horse while the horse does awesome things ;) The opening ceremony was so good though, I found myself in hysterics so many times XD

[bergeronprocess]

As a resident of another Olympic host city--Atlanta--I understand ALL OF THOSE PRE-OLYMPICS QUESTIONS. I was really young when we hosted, but I can recall retroactively that it was expensive, there were crowds, the cauldron was weird, the mascot was weirder (I mean, not even its designer knew what it was, hence the name Izzy the Whatsit), etc. But in the end, I feel that the investments made in the city for the Olympics generally paid off, and East London especially may see a big benefit over time from all those investments