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Interest: zero. Olympic spirit and ideals: zero. Advertizing: maximum. Financial benefits for the host: extremely deficitary at every Olympic event since Munich 72 (I saw a docu on TV some time ago where they calculated costs versus economic benefits for all summer and winter Games since 72, and they were always left with deficitary balances which seem to fall deeper into the red numbers with every event following). Compensation due to infrastructure built for the event: insufficient.

Panem et circensis. Olympia has little to do with it. Britons may want to riot and hang their government for having increased their debts by bringing the games to London. I for myself am happy that Munich and Berlin have lost their recent candidacies. Berlin and Olympics? Read about how the left senate have messed up the - megalomaniac but headless - airport project at Berlin Schönefeld, and you know how well-suited this senate would have been with the organisaiton of such an event. Economic corruption and political and administrational incompetence rank very high in Berlin.

Last Olympics I followed with interest and enthusiasm, was LA 84.