[the scotsman]

I think Cameron’s comments refer to the geographical ‘easiness’ of hosting an Olympics in more open country, as opposed to a huge city like London, which is geographically in a more packed area.

IMO his comments werent a dig at the 2002 games being in some sort of ‘backwater’.

[edpc]

As someone already pointed out, the 2002 Olympics were winter games. By necessity and due to the sports involved, they're in more open, remote locations.

If anything, that negates his criticism. The infrastructure exists in a large city for operations on that scale. The logistics are a bit more of a challenge "in the middle of nowhere."