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London wins 2012 Olympics
news.com.au ^ | 6 July 2005

Posted on 07/06/2005 5:05:25 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher

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Up your's Chirac and all your Froggy mates!!
1 posted on 07/06/2005 5:05:26 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

ALREADY POSTED

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1437451/posts


2 posted on 07/06/2005 5:07:30 AM PDT by phoenix_004
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Not the bit about how France can be trusted...LOL!!!


3 posted on 07/06/2005 5:09:03 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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As long as it isn't paris.


4 posted on 07/06/2005 5:18:34 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
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When I consider Chirac's comments regarding the British (their food, etc), I have to laugh.

Personally, this whole Olympics deal is more of a nuisance. I don't question the short term prestige, but what good does it do for the city in the long term? They end up with facilities that go unused, and have to be maintained at taxpayers expense. I am not any more likely to go to Atlanta, Los Angeles, or Lake Placid than I would have been otherwise.

On a sidenote: Whatever happened to the World's Fair? When I was young, I think it was in Tennessee, but it was so long ago, I can't remember. Is it as big a deal as they made it out to be then? I never hear about it anymore.


5 posted on 07/06/2005 5:18:40 AM PDT by RangerM (Perhaps he was comfortable within his skin)
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London wins 2012 Olympics

Hey, there's something screwy here. Its only 2005.
How can London win the Olympics?
Did they win all the events or just a majority?
Didn't the US win at least 1? Our typical 14 year old female gymnasts are ony 7 years old right now. How can they be judged?

I would have expected this kind of corruption in maybe Russia or China. And most definetly France. But I wouldn't expect it from Great Britain.

6 posted on 07/06/2005 5:24:30 AM PDT by mountn man (Everyone brings joy into a room. Some when they enter. Others when they leave)
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Food fight this Chirac!


7 posted on 07/06/2005 5:29:00 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: RangerM
On a sidenote: Whatever happened to the World's Fair? When I was young, I think it was in Tennessee, but it was so long ago, I can't remember. Is it as big a deal as they made it out to be then? I never hear about it anymore.

Check this out: Expo Museum

8 posted on 07/06/2005 5:32:27 AM PDT by mountn man (Everyone brings joy into a room. Some when they enter. Others when they leave)
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Pooooooor Frahnce! And it looks like Hillary's visit to talk with the Olympic Committee made no diff either.


9 posted on 07/06/2005 5:32:51 AM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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Hillary & Bloomberg is never a winning team.

As for Chirac...suffer in your jocks, you Frog Assh*le!!! LOL!!!ROTFLMAO!!!!!!


10 posted on 07/06/2005 5:37:03 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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Anything that causes France discomfort, I am all in favor of. I'm just thrilled that the Hillary/Doctoroff group got squashed. OUT.


11 posted on 07/06/2005 5:42:57 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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NON!

12 posted on 07/06/2005 5:47:02 AM PDT by AbeKrieger (Islam is the virus that causes al-Qaeda.)
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Congrats to the UK. Frankly, I can tell you none of us in NYC wanted it anyway. What a pain in the ass.


13 posted on 07/06/2005 5:48:19 AM PDT by montag813
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France would have experienced more discomfort if she had won the bid. Only one (if I recall correctly) site has made a "profit" on the Olympics - virtually every city that hosts this political orgy loses tons of money. Now that would be just desserts for France!


14 posted on 07/06/2005 5:53:02 AM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (In all things give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.)
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Now if only one could get the Frogs to pay for it...


15 posted on 07/06/2005 5:55:05 AM PDT by GSlob
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Thanks for the link.

It's strange that they don't have it on a regular schedule, for instance every four years (like the Olympics).


16 posted on 07/06/2005 5:57:05 AM PDT by RangerM (Perhaps he was comfortable within his skin)
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Whatever happened to the World's Fair?

Worked at Expo '67 in Montreal; one of the better World's Fair, at least in my opinion. In spite of higher than expected attendance at Expo '67 it was a loss financially for the city of Montreal. That has been the experience of any city hosting a World's Fair. Aside from the prestige aspect, which has diminished greatly over the years, hosting the World's Fair isn't worth the trouble and expense. Fewer cities are interested; countries and corporate entities willing to sponsor a pavilion at a World's Fair have declined ... which means they are now much smaller.

17 posted on 07/06/2005 6:15:08 AM PDT by BluH2o
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With a World's Fair like this, no wonder it's inspired the world!
.............................


Nagakute & Seto, Japan

Opening:
25 March 2005

Closing
25 September 2005

Theme:
"Nature's Wisdom"

Sub-themes:
"Nature's Matrix"
"Art of life"
"Development for Eco-Communities"

Projected attendance:
over 15 million


18 posted on 07/06/2005 6:19:15 AM PDT by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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Chirac commenting on British and Finnish cuisine:
With the English capital reportedly just behind Paris in the race to host the 2012 Olympic Games, French President Jacques Chirac's derogatory remarks about British cuisine were rather ill-timed.

Just 24 hours before today's 117th International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session, French newspaper Liberation quoted Chirac as saying, "One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad. The only thing they have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease."

"After Finland, it is the country with the worst food," added Chirac, who arrived here Tuesday.

Chirac has become an obnoxious caricature of himself. Why did he irk the Finnish members of the Olympic committee with such crass remarks?

That's something that I will say when I'm drunk, but not something that a European President should say in a fancy banquet surrounded by world leaders.

19 posted on 07/06/2005 6:19:24 AM PDT by george wythe
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Worked at Expo '67 in Montreal; one of the better World's Fair, at least in my opinion

My family went to both the New York World's Fair and Expo '67. I was in fifth and seventh grades, respectively and both were wonderful experiences! It was during this time that my love for science was developing and how those two venues fed my imagination! (I also liked Rene Simard's rendition of "Welcome to Montreal" when the Olympics were hosted there.)

20 posted on 07/06/2005 6:27:50 AM PDT by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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