http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/25/3185684/london-olympics-2012-prohibited-item-list



Which looks like because BT are official sponsors and are charging £5.99 for 90 min of Wifi.

It's just one giant money making farse.

I saw on the news yesterday small business' local to the olympic village getting in trouble with trading standard for using the words like "London", "2012" and "Olympics" on their menus, posters, flyers etc because they hadn't paid any money into the olympic pot.

When the torch passed by work the other week the first thing you saw was a great big Coca Cola lorry, followed by Samsung, and then Lloyds TSB. About the only thing about the procession to do with the olympic games was the fact that most people were wearing tracksuits.

A selection of Olympic Park food prices

Traditional Cornish Pasty £3.00/£4.50/£5.50
Cheese & Onion/Pork & Apple/Lamb & Mint/Chicken Chorizo/Steak & Ale pasty £4.50

MSC Fish & Chips (Haddock) £8.50
Mushy Peas £1.50
Pickled Egg or Gherkin £1.00

Carved Hot English Roast Beef, Multi-seed roll & Horseradish Sauce £8.00
(many other world cuisines also available)

Big Mac £2.69 (meal £4.29)
Quarter Pounder with cheese £2.69 (meal £4.29)
6 Chicken Nuggets £2.69 (meal £4.29)
Cheeseburger/Hamburger 99p/89p

before 11am only
Bacon Sandwich £3.50
English Ham & Cheese Croissant £3.50
Mozzarella, Tomato & Spinach Croissant (v) £3.50
Meal Combo: any breakfast item plus a choice of juice £6.30

Selection of sandwiches £3.80-£4.10
Pastries, Muffins or Cakes £2.50-£3.00
Chocolate Brownie Slice/Flapjack Bar £1.50
Nature Valley Cereal Bar £1.50

Trebor Mints & Gum 80p
Twirl bar £1.09
Dairy Milk bar and a half £1.50
Double Decker Duo £1.50

Flake ice cream cone £2.50
Caramel Tub £2.50
Orange & lemon ice lolly £1.50

Fairtrade tea £2.00/£2.40
Fairtrade coffee £2.40/£2.80
Cappucino/Latte/Mocha £2.80/£2.90
Americano £2.50
Espresso/Macchiato £1.80/£2.20
Hot chocolate £3.10

Heineken/Cider (330ml) £4.20
Lager/Ale (half) £2.40 (pint) £4.60
No 1 Fruit Cup (Pimms) £6.00/£10.00

Coca Cola (500ml) £2.30
Fruit juice (330ml) £2.80
Powerade (500ml) £3.00
Innocent smoothie (250ml) £3.00

Vitamin Water (500ml) £3.00
Abbey Well water (500ml) £1.60
Water from drinking fountain £0.00


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That can't be right Egg, that's cheap for London prices! You pay more than that for food at Thorpe Park/Alton Towers.

Happened here with the rugga world cup.
Prices went hope, hotels and accommodation went up and places were not allowed to use the naming of the event in promoting their business if they did not have right too. Even schools got into trouble over fun events with world cup names they not allowed to use lol.

The thing I have to say though was that the advertising was not in your face. I seen youtube clips of the torch runs and yep - IN YA FACE!
Which I been shocked by. Especially for the Olympics.

Obviously many of you have missed the fact that the Olympics is there to make money.

The Olympic committee want to make lots of money. They don't care if the host country ends up deeply in debt providing their pig trough is full.

The sports people want to make loads of money. They are paid for what they do, same as in the original.

The sponsors want to make loads of money. They have to sell their products and keep their employees and shareholders happy.

Get real folks, this is how it is going to be from now on. Amateur sports, at least at the highest levels, is dead and will remain so.

While I am not saying there is a money factor I think you miss probably one of the primary thoughts on that was.

What happens when you go to events like Adobe Max and like myself doing presentations in front of 200 people or if you go to CES or going to an Apple Event.

You have the dedicated wireless service there. Often with everyone trying to connect and use it it has a fit, can not connect and a pain. Lots of people have hot spots and mifi etc. But when a load of then runs it always seems to mess up your connections too.

Just gets a mess. I likely thought would be to try and reduce the issues so people have a means to connect in a good way? And of course make some money for BT too.