Flashback: 2005, a meeting room in the Paris offices of Toshiba, a screen mounted for the occasion shows the award ceremony Olympic Games 2012. Paris and London are elbow to elbow. The French generally a little grumpy and not thrilled with the idea of the cost of the Games have taken the game of good old Anglo-French competition , an issue of national honor. And then it Agincourt again, the English won the game, the English chauvinism is back up. In the country of tabloids, it's worth the detour. The French are disappointed, we do not really know if we wanted the games or beat the English but as there was neither the one nor the other ... Damn!
Fastforward 2008. Berezina bank, thousands of executives die of cold in Russia (presque. ..). The good Kingdom of England and her loyal subjects who dropped out of Manufactures for questionable financial arrangements was in the front line. Suddenly, the need to get out the checkbook for the gulf in dough that are usually the Olympics seems more painful than expected . Especially that it is work in terms of infrastructure upgrade and improved transportation and the British, like everyone else, have attacked eyes full of Beijing during the games and ceremonies grandiose accompanied them, and agonize a little to the idea of shame before the full 3 / 4 of the planet. For, certainly, if not the love of jogging is lacking a good Part of the English population, it is not always in the context of sporting achievement but rather in that to get a burger or fish and chips in local greasy spoon ...
hard to impress the world by scrolling through all this little world at the stadium on opening day ... WE CAN GIVE The olympics back, please ?
In addition, the British themselves began to issue some doubts on their organizational capacity following the incident at Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport . New terminal brand new, it was supposed to be during a demonstration of British genius, like the good old days of World's Fairs, the less steam. Make life more pleasant for passengers by upgrading an airport in overcapacity, great project. But instead of the well-oiled machine and the anticipated triumph, monstrous queues were formed and half were lost baggage, canceled flights, Passenger poorly supervised and angry looking wickedly not enough staff trained and exceeded. Oops ...
No reason to panic, there is still some years and the crisis will pass. But suddenly, the Triumph of the Games is getting a bit presumptuous. And if there is a common feature between the British and the French, is the total lack of modesty in victory, big or small. :)
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