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Fingers crossed we win but as many cities (i.e Paris for 2012, England ( i know it's not a city) for the WC) have found out in the past, this is not guaranteed.

At least with the World's normal punters will be able to buy tickets and not be the over hyped olympics which is so disconnected from the rest of the country. Just hope this time people in the UK will be able to buy the tickets they want like the rest of europe was allowed to for the olympics and not through a silly ballot system.

Finally, did anyone from 2012 explain why the UK public wasn't told about how they could / allowed to buy tickets from European countries. Why did take a newspaper report to find this out. Surely people at 2012 knew the system other countries were doing to sell their ticket allocation.

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Didn't London 2012 bid get told off for saying they would offer each competitor a open return flight? If so, what's the difference between that and Doha bid to promise to underwrite the IAAF's £5m prize money commitments?

Suppose it would be daft of me to ask who is paying the bid costs and underwriting the staging of the event......

The unelected Coe and his cohorts playing with other peoples money again.

@4 - maybe we should just not bother staging any event of any description then!

It's good for the country as a whole, and it's good for our economy when people from all over the world are spending their money in our country.

@5 - It's good for London and the surrounding area, it's not good for the rest of the country. The money stays in and around London and the South East.

ATHLETICS IS OUT-OF-DATE !!

Stop wasting taxpayers' money on these non-events. I for one won't be watching Olympics next year.

What is there to be exited about. People running?? I see these lunatics everyday on the road and in the Parks. Give it a break, will ya ??

Boris is a bit loopy, isn't he???. I mean, there are important things to spent money on than watching athletics..... . . . Are you all going mad ????

Great attitude Matt.

For a start, yes there is money paid out to secure the Games however if you consider another artice on here states the bid team expect the 60,000 capacity to be sold out for each session there will be a considerable sum coming the other way from visitors and locals alike.

And secondly, re the actual activity, I'd hazard a guess these "lunatics" find themselves in a very fit and healthy state. How terrible.

#7 you might as well say about literally everything. Why on earth you think it is out of date, is absurd. It's no more out of date than any other sport such as cricket, rugby, football, tennis, etc.

@7 Really? Really?! I guess if YOU aren't a fan then there is absolutely no way that anybody else should be allowed to enjoy the top level of sporting competition in its purest form then. Also, you know that adding another question mark or three doesn't make it any more of a question. Or any more cretinous a comment for that matter.

Personally I'd rather have the World Champs than the self-congratulatory event that is the Olympics - either that or scrap one of them.

And don't forget today is also the decision on who will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games in 2018 to follow Glasgow 2014 - the Australian Gold Coast or Sri Lanka's Hambantota. The Commonwealth Games is the world's third biggest multi-sports event watched by a third of the world's population, so worth a mention!

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To see the world's best compete, of course I want them here in the UK. Fingers crossed we get them and it may go some way to correcting the mistakes of 2005.

@7 tax payers money wasted, well it depends on your point of view regarding athletics. There is a good case for staging the games but very little can be offered for not competing for them. In fact I could give countless examples, where on a daily basis, we waste far greater amounts of tax payers money.

#7 - I'm sure the tax burden of dealing with obesity and smoking neither of which are common traits of sports persons, is a hell of a lot more than staging this one off event. I also tend to find the social benefits of getting school kids active in sports to be great as they learn how to be with other people and before you say it, although isn't a team game it still brings about camaradery.

If you're going to get anti-athletics far worse the amount of drugs cheats and the failure of the authorities to deal with them properly (2 year to 4 year bans).

I personaly think this is way too quick to be hosting having only 5 years before had the Olympics. Surely the whole thing should be spread much further and perhaps we can do it in 2015/19 so a new generation can watch it and be inspired.

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@7 - Yes I know where you will be - sat watching 'your' premiership side on sky??

tsk - another wandering football fan with no interest in anything apart from their sport. I can do both - running helps to counteract the beer gut you get watching footie!

Good to see money doesn't just talk as the main advantage for one sporting organisation.

Well done to the guys who made the successful bid.

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HERE WE GO AGAIN !!


We've been told by the Coalition Government to tighten our belts as austerity measures are being introduced. Now the money saved looks likely to be earmarked for more Athletics meetings, or if not that, then its foreign excursions again to some poor Third World countries to annihilate their people and destruy their infrastructures.

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...the bill for next years Olympics has already escalated out of sight and nobody is counting any more, coz they are embarrassed to tell the taxpayer the billions they are being asked to pay for it.

These lot really need their brain looking at, or better still, their backside kicking !!