Oh, no, don't mention the Pope!

Personally I'm not about the overall value of the Olympic hype but will wait to see how it all pans out. I can however imagine it will cripple London transport and road networks. ( is it really only two years away!) and may not be the gravy train that people envisaged. So far it seems to have just cost lots of money wtih exhorbitant debt interest and has inflated land prices in east London making it hard to produce good quality social housing there. I did do a course a few years ago where there were speakers from previous Olympic cities and academics who researched the Barcelona Olympics and the view seemed to be very mixed. Barcelone probably managed to get the best outcome in the long term as the Olympic Village and stadia are still widely used.