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As long as it isn't paris.
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.
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.
Food fight this Chirac!
Pooooooor Frahnce! And it looks like Hillary's visit to talk with the Olympic Committee made no diff either.
Anything that causes France discomfort, I am all in favor of. I'm just thrilled that the Hillary/Doctoroff group got squashed. OUT.
NON!
Congrats to the UK. Frankly, I can tell you none of us in NYC wanted it anyway. What a pain in the ass.
Now if only one could get the Frogs to pay for it...
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.Chirac has become an obnoxious caricature of himself. Why did he irk the Finnish members of the Olympic committee with such crass remarks?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.
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.
I guess they decided the food in London is better. London has great restaurants - great Indian and other far Eastern food, better French restaurants than in France, great Italian restaurants - you don't have to have English food if you don't like it, so Chirac's remark made him sound like a hick who's never been out of France.
And by the way, how many Republics and other types of government has France had since the Revolution? (A stable form of government is more pertinent as to which country you can "trust" more.)
I see France
I see Chirac
Crapping in his pants.
That's where he lost it, right there. The minute he said that they knew that everything he said was a lie.