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London has been all too willing to toss out the freedoms of its people in exchange for profits to the IOC.

This is how major sporting events work. It's pretty disturbing.

I don't know about the IOC, but I sincerely hope there's a backlash building against FIFA, and that maybe in a decade or so we'll have a World Cup that doesn't involve governments rewriting laws and such overzealous "protection" of corporate sponsors.

The Olympics is an incredibly complex event, but staging a bunch of football matches across a country is pretty simple, so there's little reason besides political convenience to allow such a corrupt organization to keep running the sport.

Profits? I find it hard to believe they'll do better than limit losses to something bearable.

This is a sincere question: what losses? It seems that they use 80% of revenue to help the location offset its massive costs and keep 8% for themselves.

My understanding is the games are going to be a massive loss for the city.

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