Armstrong Backs Paris' 2012 Games Bid

[Mojambo]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050309/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_paris2012_8

This has got to be driving the freepers crazy, and he's even a Texan!

[rkc3]

Does anyone have the nerve to take a look-see over there?

[mr_hat]

1. In a desperate bid to have fewer projectiles hurled at him

from crowds lining the roadss in this year's Tour de France...

[jakefrep]

2. This will not go over well in the Europhobic Republic of Texas. nt

[KurtNYC]

3. Hosting the Olympics is a big money loser

Every city that hosts the Olympics loses money. Athens went 800% over budget (to around 10-billion euros).

Montreal still has a tax to pay for the 1976 games.
Atlanta is still paying on the bonds for 1996.

The Salt Lake City scandals, Ben Johnson, Flo Jo, vote fixing in ice skating, olympic records set by people that have since admitted to drug use or died because of it. IOC officials who demanded hookers, real estate, no-show jobs for family members.... Why does Lance Armstrong hate Paris?

http://www.businessjournalism.org/content/5029.cfm

[AllegroRondo]

4. St Louis made a profit in 1904

but it was done as part of the World's Fair

[joeybee12]

5. I think Lance has a chalet int he south of France--lives there part of the

year...so why don't the filth in Congress censure him? Hell, they're probably thinking of hanging him!