Bear in mind I that I watch far too much children's televison with 3 children under 10 years old - but this seemed prescient on a number of levels.  Should Blue Peter be running a competition for children to win a trip to the Beijing Olympics?  I'm not so sure.

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Sports minister Tessa Jowell's announcement confirmed that the expense of staging the Olympics would be far higher than thought when Britain was awarded the games in July 2005. This more than doubled the estimated cost of staging the 2012 London Olympics to 9.3 billion pounds. The Tories accuse the government  of "massive financial incompetence" and with this level of increasing expenditure, I agree with them. The Olympics will be a first class fiasco of financial incompetence, private sector profiteering, and self  congratulatory bullshit; that will be gone in a fortnight, leaving London with debts for years. And for what?.

The London Olympic budget has been increased by 900 million from its initial cost of £3.3 billion it was revealed in a speech by Tereza Jowell.