They ate their wheetabix!
I have to say I thought team GB was going to do awful at the olympics and only get a handful of medals. Mainly because most of the preamble was our athletes were mainly going for the experience but they were aiming for London... Obviously not.
Having said that, are our expectations going to be too high now for London and if we do as well as this Olympics will it be seen as a major disappointment? One problem London will have is that it cannot spend anywhere near as much as China could plow into the Olympics... it will be a firecracker in a grit box in comparison...
There are 2 big differences between China and London that you have to realise to put things into perspective. Anything the Chinese goverment wanted to do, they could do. There are no debates, public consultations, cost reviews, planning meetins. They want it it, happens. Anything that is built, such as their new national stadium is there to stay.
London if they are smart enough, wont even try to compete on scale. Everything that is done in London will have to have a lasting legacy for local communities. The stadium will be brought down to 15-20 thousand people for a running track, or entertainment venue or soemthing. You cant just have 2 90000 seater stadiums in london doing nothing. Sport and factilites back into the community.
That will be Londons legacy. My only hope for london that it actually kick starts peoples mentatilites and does some kind of u turn on what is turning into a fat nation.
