"The deal with the Olympics ought to be really simple," Rowan Moore (architecture critic of the Observer) told Dezeen during a filmed interview yesterday. "It's this very big amazing event which, if it goes well, gives the host country a big buzz, as happened with the London Olympics, and for that you have to pay £12bn, or whatever the real cost is. And that's almost the beginning and the end of it. If you wanted to regenerate east London there'd be much, much easier ways to do it than holding the Olympics, and much cheaper."
He added: "But the people who promote the Olympics find it hard to admit that. They say it's about regeneration, it's about boosting sporting legacy, it's about boosting business, it's sustainable. All these things are absolute bullshit."
(Sept 26, 2012 de zeen)