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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

just had to do an assessment can anyone tell me as there been events as big as olympics in london before? i thought millenium... it was a conversation assessment so spoken not that matters in regard to my question...

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Maybe the Queens coronation.....but doubt if it was as big as the Olympics.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Festival of Britain?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain

Wolf

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

what about other big events?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I read recently that it is probably the largest commercial construction project ever in the UK and one of the largest ever in all of Europe which surprised me a little but does seem realistic.

When you look at the capacity of the main Olympic site and factor in that it runs for 2 weeks, and then factor in the 6 or 7 events that will shut down part of the centre as well during that time then I think it's safe to say that nothing is going to have come close.

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By *elsh_lass74Woman
over a year ago

South Wales

Royal wedding last year maybe???

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

but then there must have been concert for 2/3 night in stadiums?

also remember the Olympics need 9'000 offices etc.

mellienium was unplanned and took control of it's self.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Wouldnt have thought anything would have come close to the olympics the only really big events that i can think of are state funerals and royal weddings

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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago

Cyprus


"just had to do an assessment can anyone tell me as there been events as big as olympics in london before? i thought millenium... it was a conversation assessment so spoken not that matters in regard to my question..."

Do you mean in celebratory terms, ie, Coronation, Charles and Diana's wedding?

In terms of expenditure?

or events that have changed the face of London? As in the great fire, the plague etc?

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Boris being appointed mayor. lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Royal wedding last year maybe??? "

That was a day and left no lasting legacy.

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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago

Cyprus

Olympics of 1948

Great smog of 1952 which killed over 4,000 people

etc

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

in terms of london coping.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

May 29 1968

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

PMSL and we have left it in the safe hands of boris johnson - it is going to be like the carry on olympics

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"in terms of london coping."

london always finds a way of coping... for example the july 7 bombings... numerous sporting and social events...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For a start this is the third time London held the Olympics.

I honestly get fed up with people going on how we'll cock up everything.

Actually we don't.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

so answer this in one word "yes or no" judging by if london has had comparable evens do you think it can come? i was arguing about cost, traffic, hotels etc..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

doesn't matter... i said there as been other event in london comparing to Olympics and london coped... afterward i thought what a stupid comment based on no fact.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Princess Diana's funeral required military planning to get her coffin through London and up the M1 to Leicestershire. Hundreds of thousands turned out to say goodbye to her. That has to be comparable for a one-day event.

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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago

Cyprus


"so answer this in one word "yes or no" judging by if london has had comparable evens do you think it can come? i was arguing about cost, traffic, hotels etc.."

If you put the cost into todays money....

I'd say the blitz

London coped.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"doesn't matter... i said there as been other event in london comparing to Olympics and london coped... afterward i thought what a stupid comment based on no fact."

They will cope, how can they not cope. They have coped with the 7/7 bombings. They have coped with olympics in the past. The worst that can happen is people wont get into london or anywhere to stay cause of jams ect. How long has the olympics been planned? When princess diana died they had no planning for that at all, the only reason the horses had been trained was because they where planning the queen mothers death. Its a massive event but we will be fine

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

my point being on millenium nothing was planeed loads and loads of people just urned up... and pissed...

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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago

Cyprus

My daughter lives and works in London and London is more than ready apparently.

She's had her working hours adjusted so they won't be travelling in rush hour. Many companies who will not be making money from the amount of tourism the olympics will bring in, will be working with skeleton staff.

Hospitals all have their emergency procedures up to date, as do the airports, the rail stations and the tube.

The new bus lanes will be open as will the new tube line.

Londoners are being urged to leave London or to travel as little as possible.

Shops have pre-ordered extra stocks. More hotels were built to cope, most of the motorway system to the different venues have been upgraded and there should be no road works for the 6 weeks that people are pouring in and out of the country.

The security services and the army are providing approximately 27,000 security staff, no one working for the government over that 6 week period, within the vacinity of the games or those that work indirectly (ie, immigration, customs and excise) for the games are allowed leave.......

The list is endless. London will cope because it's had years of planning.

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