Alle 2 Jahre

UNTERNEHMEN

OLYMPIA

Geld, Geld und nochmal Geld: Im Wettstreit der drei

Bewerberstädte wurde mit vielen hässlichen Tricks versucht, die Konkurrenten auszustechen.

Host city contract

„ein Knebelungsvertrag“

das IOC entscheidet allein, was bezahlt wird…

..Steuerfreiheit für die

Olympic Family…

GARANTIENStadt, Land, Bund müssen

für Alles haften

BEWERBUNGEN 2010Salzburg

Vancouver

“The book may go to a second printing

soon, but nothing besides a few typos

are changing.

Lots has happened from a civil rights perspective (bad to worse as you can

imagine), but the environmental stuff is

as detailed in the book with the

exceptions that a lot more damage was done around Whistler and Cypress

Mountain”.

During the first week of June 2009, author Chris Shaw was confronted by

two police officers in the city of Vancouver where the 2010 Winter

Olympics will be held.The police told him they wanted to

talk to him about his book, “Five Ring Circus”, a critical analysis of the

Vancouver Games.

“There will be 15,000 soldiers on our streets with massive surveillance

programs already under way. There will be cameras on every street corner

with face recognition software and voice recognition software for the

phone lines. We are facing a freaking nightmare for civil rights."

Chris: "The costs have gone through the stratosphere. It's $7

billion so far - that we know about. The security costs alone

will be $1 billion. We have taken on massive debt that will

probably take 30 years to pay off”

"The Winter games tend to come in at $10 billion and the

Summer games should cost a

total of $20 billion.”

Press Office

Washington, DC

Gov't places Olympics costs at 13 billion

euros

Alternate Culture Minister Fani Palli Petralia

estimated total costs for the staging of the 2004

Athens Olympic Games to be around €13 billion

in comments she made during a radio interview

on Tuesday.

Additionally, Petralia said that a frugal budget for maintenance of the venues stood at around €100 million. She said that

the ministry is waiting for local authorities to submit proposals regarding certain venues for which no interest has been

expressed.

In response, the press office of the main opposition PASOK party called on the government to provide a detailed break-

down of costs. It also accused the government of "managing to devalue so much and such important achievements of the

Greek people in a short period of time."

“Vancouver's Olympic bylaw is an infringement on my Charter rights and those of all people who wish to express themselves and to listen,” said Dr. Shaw.

“If the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to be a guarantee of anything, if it is to be more than words on paper, this bylaw cannot be allowed to stand.”

Whistler's little “white elephant”

— the Whistler Sliding Centre —

cost $104.9 million and uses 100 kilometres of ammonia

refrigeration piping and 68,000 kilograms of ammonia to keep

the track frozen.