Our British cousins should keep this in mind.....
We have the open space and resources because we kicked your ass twice. Those same resources and people from "the middle of nowhere" saved your ass twice in the 20th century.
The Brits are sounding like a bunch of Frenchies on this one.
Uh, the Salt Lake City Valley is pretty full of people. Not too many muzzies, but still not really too much different from running a big event in London.
“Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere.”
By “middle of nowhere”, I will assume you meant where there aren’t any Muslims living in huge numbers with designs on turning your town into Pakistan on the North Sea.
And also SLC took place only a few months after 9-11, you brit-t*at. So yes it was a bit harder to hold that Olympics than most.
p.s. You already had one muzzie attack a torch-bearer, so you need to try harder.
Duh, maybe what Romney said was true?
PM Cameron is busy surrendering his country to the invading Moslem horde.
Why should anything he says be considered credible?
Any Republican candidate has to deal with the opposition making mountains out of molehills.
Comparing a Winter Olympics to a Summer Olympics is comparing Apples to Oranges. Winter Olympics typically are held “in the middle of nowwhere”, and are on a much smaller scale than the Summer Games. The security challenges are nowhere near what a Summer Games faces.
The Opening Ceremonies are TONIGHT, July 27....9 PM London time, 4 PM U.S. Eastern time, tape on NBC at 7 PM Eastern time.
I hope someone starts a live thread later on today.
Theme of the Ceremony is "Isles of Light". There will be a cast of 15,000 Brits participating in the opening and closing ceremonies.
Who will be the person who actually lights the Olympic flame inside the stadium? History indicates it's likely to be a British athletic or cultural icon....who will perform the deed in some spectacular or unusual manner.
Leni
Are Americans aware of just how many major sports events and tournaments Great Britain hosts and has hosted in recent years?. And how many it is due to host just this decade?.
Not one so far with any violence, terrorism or problem. From Glasgow to London, Cardiff to Edinburgh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_sports_event_hosting_in_Britain_during_the_2010s
Are Americans aware of just how many major sports events and tournaments Great Britain hosts and has hosted in recent years?. And how many it is due to host just this decade?.
Not one so far with any violence, terrorism or problem. From Glasgow to London, Cardiff to Edinburgh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_sports_event_hosting_in_Britain_during_the_2010s