How come they never address the security issue of people reaching into the Hudson river and pulling out an unregistered firearm?

Do they really need the Olympics to make some of those improvements?

Nice logo.

NYC would have probably done a better job of filling the venues with fans. It's crazy when I see all these events on TV and see tons of empty seats.

That's pretty cool. It's a bit disconcerting to hear an American talk about kilometres and football, hopefully I will become used to this!

Given the cost, it probably would have been better for NYC to get it - it's too expensive for the us in the UK and of course, we wouldn't want Paris (runner up in the bidding) to get it. Still, I'm enjoying the games and I'm glad to see that we've done pretty well so far. Shame about the women's fencing.

I don't see why any city would want the Olympics, especially big established cities. It seems like when it's over it all goes to shit because it costs too much to operate or there's not enough people to use it and willing to pay to make it worth operating.

And during the time of it being there and leading up to, all transportation would be overloaded, the rest of the city would experience strains on everything. And then when all the extra population leaves, you have to clean up which adds more artificial burden.

Atlanta would be the one to look to. And I haven't heard anything overly negative about it, they broke even. But overall it wasn't any huge plus to the city, aside from intangible feel-good things. And it had impacts across the country, like the National Guard being called in to help police the event and all the work they left behind when they were gone for weeks.

Can think of lots of other things a city could decide they want to do and actually create something useful and long lasting, not something they spend 4-5 years on and end up with some TV footage and memories and maybe a lot of debt.