Olympic lunacy

VFTN is pleased to see that the Olympics organisers have listed to the nationwide concerns about the spiralling cost and.... completely ignored them. Lord Coe has ruled out holding cycling events in Manchester where there is an existing world class velododrome based on a narrow interpretation of IOC rules on holding events outside the host city. Meanwhile millions of pounds are diverted away from the arts and grassroot sports to build a whole bunch of new venues which will get used for a few weeks in 2012.