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Alan is not alone in regretting the British 'success'. Recent Olympics have
proved to be an expensive burden for the host nation's taxpayers, far from
the pot of gold most people appear to think it is. The French would have
been welcome to it, IMO. And Paris isn't that far from Londres, when all's
said and done, mon ami ...

One would feel so much more optimistic, if the millennium dome hadn't
been such an expensive failure :-(

Janet