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Hosting the Olympics

Having the Olympics in London and citing them in a quite poor part of London will really benefit the community as well as the economy. As stated by Mr. Deighton “We are not just creating a park, we are helping to regenerate a community.” All the people that used to live in the community of Newham have been rehoused to allow the Olympic village to be built. The Olympic village will allow the community to regenerate itself and although there are some negative effects the positive implications it will bring in the long run clearly outweigh these. The Olympic village and the housing provided will be converted to social housing once the Olympics are over. This will allow many people to have a great home and create a great effect of community. Similarly the sporting facilities can be used to house different sporting events also for the community and try and get some kids to get involved in sports. This is stated by Mr. Deighton as he said “The sports facilities will be adapted for use by sports clubs and the local community. New playing fields sitting alongside these facilities will be adapted for community use.” Overall it will have a hugely positive effect on the community and the people in Newham will clearly benefit from this.

Hosting the Olympics can be both beneficial and not beneficial for a Country. The cons of hosting the Olympics are that it costs a lot of money, the stadiums may not be used in the future, and area has to be demolished to provide space. -It costs a lot of money to host a major sporting event like the Olympics. This is because there needs to be many different stadiums built for the different sporting events like track and field, swimming, gymnastics, driving, etc. This may lead to an increase in tax for the locals. -The stadiums may not be used in the future. If not used or sold then they have to be destroyed because they aren’t being maintained, which costs a lot of money. -Lots of area is taken up for the stadiums and village. This causes the locals of the area to be forced to move and many buildings destroyed. These cons may affect how the country plans to host the event and they do need to be brought to mind when planning before hand to try to ensure that instead of negative impacts there will be positive ones.

We believe that the olympics will benefit the area as there will be numerous plus points. The area that the Olympic village is being build in is very poor and a huge percentile of young adults in the area quit school around 16 and for that reason they do not have the skills to apply for sufficiently paying jobs. Hopefully the London 2012 Olympics will be able to create lots of jobs that young people can apply for and it may also create more houses for the area, similarly it will hugely benefit the economy of the area. This is due to the stadiums being sold and used to house different sporting events and the immense increase in tourists that will come from that. Overall the olympics are a great event for the UK to house and if the predictions are followed and the housing is used for housing the poor people it will be a huge benefit.

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