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| If you're tired of seeing the Back the Bid slogan everywhere and want to investigate other opinions, or see what is out there beyond this site, check out the links below... If you have a link you would like added, email admin@nolondon2012.org
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| A blog which pays attention to what the Mayor of London is up to and which has a very detailed piece about why we should say no to the bid. |
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| Some interesting stuff from the University of East London on the Olympic Bid - and some stuff that requires a postgrad qualification in sociology! |
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| 1992 British Olympics team member Michael Libreich writes about the misleading costs. There is also an Olympics Yes/No discussion. |
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| A discussion forum entitled London Olympics 2012 |
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| The London Olympic Bid - Money Well Spent? A good look at the financial realities of staging the Olympics. Includes comparisons of what the proposed 2.375billion could have bought instead. |
| Olympic facts and fantasies |
| Olympic facts and fantasies - a site put up by a group campaingning against the winter olympic games 2010 in Canada. |
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| Did you know that the Athens Games eventually cost the Greek population between 10 and 12 Billion US dollars; more than 5% of the annual gross domestic product? and..." If you think the Greeks overcommitted, the Chinese have budgeted US$23 billion for the 2008 Olympic games seven times more than the Sydney games, and 32 times what Los Angeles spent for the 1984 Games! ". What chance is there of London sticking to its 2.375 billion? |
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| Forbes Magazine: "With the possible exception of Moscow, they (the bidders) risk 17 days of chaos and financial drain, for a chance at reflected glory." |
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| Will the Olympics be another white elephant for london? |
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| Bromley-by-Bow to Stratford: A Sacrifice Zone is any area of land whose speculative value is outweighed by the costs of capitalizing on that value, ie. it costs more to make it saleable than would be gained by selling it. When a space achieves this state, it becomes a sacrifice zone. |
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| Did you know that the bid itself, just the bid, cost the UK Approx. USD $25.5 Million? |