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> “I bid for the Olympics because it’s the only way to get the billions of pounds out of the government to develop the East End,” he said in 2008.

Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London. It's not for the athletes, but it's because of them.




It didn’t pan out as great value for the tax payer though.




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