SOO MANY EVENTS

There are...SO....many.....events.
And times, and athletes, and heats, and locations, and countries.
When you are trying to follow the Olympics, weather your watching on the TV/internet etc or you are actually there, there must be a way of making in simpler to follow. I mean look at this list of events.
Long right.

There must be better way.

In an unsure time, can we support our athletes?

If you look at our athletes very clinically, they are just part of the Olympic machine, they need to be built and maintained too. We have already seen some American athletes lose funding from sponsors dropping out (source), could this happen to out lot? I hope not. We rely on the national lottery to fund our athletic program, but i suppose in these times people might be playing the lottery more.

On the other hand...
“This also might be a perfect chance for companies to jump into sponsorships, when other companies might be too financially weak to do so.”

UH OH!!!!!!!

Gosper, a vice-president of the Sydney Olympics organising committee, said: "I think you and your team face the toughest time – short of wartime – to get the project to 2012."
Outch!

Full article. Careful, its a tough read.

Lessons for London

Guardian correspondents round up the Beijing Olympics and look forward to our turn in 2012