It could not have gone better, run smoother, moved us more, been splendid for Team GB, made several athletes superstars, great for Tom, Mo, Jess, Vicky - and most of all Danny Boyle (looking forward to tomorrow's closing ceremony) and Seb Coe - well done Seb; you did it!

Hey, JK good bloke, dont forget Coe's co-accused BIG-BUCKS C-O-K-E !

If there's one thing that the whole Anglophone-zone ia good at it's - a DAMNED GOOD SHOW !

Recalling, now backstage, GREAT BIG WIT OZ Anglo-Dame Edna far-from/Everage:

"I love a warm hand on my opening (and closed-thing.)"

LoL.

But we still lost after so much hype and expense.

Not to Party Poop with another reality check.

But never mind 'Damned Good Show' Overture & Curtain-Up to Fine Finale; plus Dame E. E's Warm-Closure.

Try these links for a very oddly mainstream unreported eye-OPENING ending, to unending, unseen Olympic-medal sized exploitation ongoing unchecked.

First this from Jules Boykoff, former pro soccer-player who represented the US Olympic team. Now an associate professor of political science at Pacific University, Oregon. Writing on activism, climate change, and the politics of sports, he is author of 'Beyond Bullets/The Suppression of Dissent in the United States', and co-author of 'Landscapes of Dissent/Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space': " Security officials are exploiting the Olympics as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to multiply and militarise their weapon stocks, laminating another layer on to the surveillance state.”

www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jules-boykoff

www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/10/255426/...mpics-for-londoners/

www.indystar.com/article/20120728/BUSINE...s-social-media-event

It was a successful fortnight but what will it achieve for London?

Doubt more tourists will come but it was nice seeing Londoners celebrate.

Now come the bill at which time In The Know returns to say 'I told you so'.

And ITK, as usual, will be wrong; a superb investment; you can never spend too much boosting enthusiasm, optimism, positivity; the benefits will come for decades. Lord Coe for Prime Minister, I say. And congratulations to Jeremy Hunt who deserves great praise for holding it all together against great odds and predictably negative media.

And let us not forget Ken Livingstone who got them for us.

Too true JK.

Rockin Red Ken, Beckham & Co (plus Coe) nailed it in '05, then the BLiar-Brown brigade humped the first HARD 5-years of work. Just in time for opportunist BIG BUFFOON BORIS (blond spider from afar) to claim the gory-glory with, in our nous, not a nod to the pre-'010 mob.

Meanwhile we also wonder why Alf's World Cup'66 and-all-that Wingless-Wonder-Winners, Banks-Hurst et al weren't name-checked ?

Cept of course they're all-Anglos not the Godhead 'Team-GB'. CONveniently forgetting that the bulk of O-medals came from Anglos, plus Rockin Jocks, Wacky Paddys, Top Taffs etc.

And, a crowning GOLD finale from lonely long-runner Farah ex-far off SomaliLand - STILL not formally recognised by ex-Empire Bullshit Blighty God Almighty !

I disagree.

events will overtake the games as they have elsewhere. The one big benefit was locating them in a basically inner city area instead of some vast wilderness.

Yer mean "Absolutely Trashed".

Local Ma n Pa shops Fascist-Market barred from even displaying the 5-Rings/O-logo PWNED BY GLOBAL BIG DOUGH - WTF ?

F**k their Fascist Five-Rings - give'em TWO FINGERS & UP-Urs Coe & Coke to-go !

Next Customer Please.

I speak wearing my capitalist hat Whole Truth but at heart I am a fashionable left-wing Marxist.

I am sure whole communities were razed in the process and the 'low cost' housing will be a bare minimum.

I despaired to see the story the other day of the million dollar former council flat near Buck House.
One of the joys of London, like New York, was the amazing mix of classes and cultures in the centre.

All changed forever by ghastly New Labour and Maggie.