I love your ideals but you need to be a little bit more pragmatic about who this big wonderful event you're so enjoying is paid for.

Yes. But, it has been pretty flashy hasn't it? It's a bit socialist of me, but I do have to wonder whether you could have staged a less showy (but still sportingly excellent) Games with considerably less corporate wonga, for the same public/lottery wonga. I appreciate that this is not the way the Olympics roll nowadays.

You could, let's face it, still make an awful lot of money in sponsorship without making over half the seats for the men's 100m final unavailable to the general public.

I'm a playa. I like bling.

Braap braap.

Not really. It's Livingstone's scheme, no matter how many times Boris pops up on television.

He won't have been anywhere near the setting up of the admin team for the handover and over-seeing of the housing association though, not for several years.

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If they invite Cameron along to open the first "affordable rent" apartments you'll see a man smiling with his mouth but with his ears ringing from Thatchers bollacking that morning

The big test of the "legacy" will be in 10/15 years time when we see the amount of GB athletes competing as they will have been the kids inspired by these games

when do they decide on the 2024 games

They don't decide on 2020 until next year, so 4 years after that, probably.

I think a better legacy would be the number of kids participating in sport. Preferably instead of playing computer games and getting fat.

I think that's what the "Inspire a Generation" thing is really all about. Of course if you increase the talent pool and keep going with the elite performance programmes it's quite likely that will have a knock on effect at the elite level.

Quote: Road To Nowhere "I have and been to the Estádio João Havelange which will host the Athletics and the Maracanã where the opening ceremony will take place. Get in touch, I can tell you loads if you need it.'" www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18804464 Looks like the Olympic ideals are alive & well in Rio. Read the last para: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19110769

Quote: Road To Nowhere "I have and been to the Estádio João Havelange which will host the Athletics and the Maracanã where the opening ceremony will take place. Get in touch, I can tell you loads if you need it.'" www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18804464 Looks like the Olympic ideals are alive & well in Rio. Read the last para: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19110769

I think this may interest some on here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19144983

I think this may interest some on here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19144983

As GCH mentioned, I've been down for 5 days and saw loads of different sports, most of which I haven't seen before. The handball was something I really enjoyed, but nothing could top Friday night in the Olympic Stadium, cheering on anybody British but most especially the lovely Ms Ennis.

Tickets were hard to come by, there's no denying that, but they were available. A bit of patience, a bit of pre-planning and in some cases luck allowed us to get to 7 events over 5 days.

One of my most abiding memories will be of the "Games Makers". Tens of thousands of volunteers who are the most pleasent, happy, charming people you could wish to meet. Also, once inside the venues there's no advertising anywhere. Sure there's a McDonalds (well 4 to be precise) inside the park, but there's numerous other food outlets as well.

Overall one of the greatest sporting experiences of my life. I agree that the legacy bit will take a few years to determine but at this moment in time I'm a complete believer.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19171008

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19171008

To be honest, I've ended up finding the availability of tickets at short notice for events I applied for ages ago quite annoying.

It will have been lovely for people who could head to London at short notice or on the off chance, but I have a 6 month old baby and no family to babysit within 100 miles. Pre-planning is exactly what the ticketing prevented for me.