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Fans Go Hungry In Wembley Stadium After Credit Card System Breaks Down
 The Daily Telegraph|Jul. 30, 2012, 6:27 AM|352|1




A decision not to accept any card payments at Team GB’s Wembley football match 'was made by Wembley management', Visa has claimed.
 
Spectators attending Olympic football games at Wembley Stadium complained of "ridiculous" queues for food and drink after some tills stopped working.
 
Visa is a global sponsor of the Olympics and is the only brand of card payment that is accepted at all Olympic venues.
 
It is also using the Olympic venues to test a new 'cashless' form of payment using mobile phones, which it hopes will render bank notes and coins redundant.
 
Fans hoping to buy snacks as they watched Great Britain's men take on United Arab Emirates last night were told they could not pay by Visa and must use cash.
 
Max Gore, 27, from Shepherd's Bush, west London, said: "The queues were ridiculous. I didn't have any cash and I couldn't pay on card.
 
"I asked the person behind the bar if there were any cash machines and they said some had been taken out for the Olympics. "I had to trek around the stadium to find one."
 
Mr Gore added: "The problem went on for the whole evening. There were two games and they couldn't get it fixed."
 
A Visa spokesperson said "We understand that Wembley's systems failed and therefore they were only accepting cash at the food and beverage kiosks.
 
"This cash only decision was made by Wembley management and not Visa. We are working with the Wembley team to help them fix this as soon as possible."
 
Other disgruntled spectators took to Twitter to vent their anger.
 
Carl McQueen wrote on the micro blogging website: "80,000 people in Wembley Stadium, and the Visa card payment system has broken down - lot of people without cash going hungry & thirsty!"
 
Nick Bacon tweeted: "Was very unimpressed by Wembley Stadium. Ran out of food, couldn't use cards at the tills and lack of information given to punters."
 
Twitter user Sue Atkins described the payment problems as a "fiasco", while Tom Williams tweeted: "Quite something for Visa to have a monopoly only for none of their card machines to work."
 
Thousands of fans attended the stadium to watch Senegal play Uruguay before Great Britain's match yesterday evening.
 
Games organiser Locog also said it was helping to resolve the situation.
 
A spokesman said last night: "We are working with the Wembley team to fix this as soon as possible."
 
The Great Britain women's football team will take on Brazil at Wembley tomorrow, but it is not yet known when the glitch will be rectified.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/fans-go-hungry-in-wembley-stadium-after-credit-card-system-breaks-down-2012-7#ixzz226fmkz5Z


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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2012, 05:06:53 AM »
doesn't matter.   shit is going to go wrong at any event of this size.

It wasn't his place - as potential american president - to travel overseas and undermine/second guess the host country.

If an obese woman invites me over for free breakfast, and I tweet to everyone about how she needs to exercise... Technically, I'm right - but it's not my place to do so.


Imagine how we'd feel if we invited the Queen to America, and she wouldn't stop telling American reporters about how our govt is fckig things up.  Classless, undignified.  Romney backed off the comments once he realized it's not the Prez' job to pipe up and criticize.

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2012, 06:37:55 AM »
Mitt is becoming the 2012 version of Sarah Palin.

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2012, 06:41:10 AM »
romney  is palin with a dick

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2012, 06:43:22 AM »
Mitt is becoming the 2012 version of Sarah Palin.


LOL - yet he is already tied in gallup and beating obama in rassumessen despite 100 million in attack ads. 

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2012, 06:45:56 AM »

LOL - yet he is already tied in gallup and beating obama in rassumessen despite 100 million in attack ads. 

Which means shit and has nothing to do with my comment.


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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2012, 04:56:58 AM »
PM Cameron: 'We can do better' on Olympics tickets

By GRAHAM DUNBAR
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BIG EMPTY STADIUM, ANYONE?

 

LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron says he shares British frustration at seeing empty seats in London Olympics venues but he believes organizers will soon improve the situation.

The empty-seats problem has lingered beyond the first weekend of competition, taking some shine off Friday's opening ceremony, which was hailed with lavish praise from most British. Locals have been outraged at the television images of empty stands, since many had spent months trying - and failing - to buy Olympic tickets online.

"We can do better," Cameron acknowledged Monday, after games organizers explained their range of tactics to fill the gaps with ordinary sports fans.

Organizers needed to "make sure more people get to see more games and also that there are fewer empty seats," Cameron told broadcaster ITV in an interview.

Speaking after a meeting of his government's Olympics panel, Cameron expressed confidence that the London organizing committee was "on track" to meet his challenge. Military personnel, local students and teachers have all been offered Olympic tickets to get more fans immediately into the arenas.

Around 3,000 extra tickets were made available late Sunday and quickly sold out for Monday's events, organizing committee spokeswoman Jackie Brock-Doyle said.

Around 600 gymnastics tickets were freed up, plus 400 for morning sessions in beach volleyball and 200 more in the evening. Additional space was made for fans to see water polo, handball and equestrian events, she said.

Organizers say seats were left empty mostly by accredited sports and national Olympic officials, athletes, some media, plus "a handful of sponsors." Sports governing bodies have been the main source for returning privileged-access tickets.

Each evening, sports and national Olympics officials will now be asked to give back some tickets for fans to make late buys.

"We are doing it session by session," Brock-Doyle said. "We really are doing the best that we can."

Ticket holders leaving an event are also being asked to "recycle" their ticket by allowing its resale for just a few pounds (dollars) to a potential spectator already cleared by security inside the Olympic Park.

Cameron accepted the efforts being made and said a perfect solution is unlikely.

"You can never solve the problem completely because there have to be some seats left for the accredited Games family," he said.

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2012, 05:14:50 AM »
Olympic Venues Have Just 8 Cash Machines For 11 Million Spectators
Emma Wall, The Daily Telegraph |Jul. 31, 2012, 6:36 AM|294|1
 


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 Further payment problems at Olympic venues as It is revealed that there are just eight cash machines for all.
 
There are just eight cash machines across all the Olympic venues to service more than 11 million expected spectators.
 
Several Olympic venues, including Wembley, Earl's Court, Greenwich Park, Wimbledon and Lord's do not have a single ATM.
 
Furthermore, the eight cash machines only dispense cash for those with a Visa card.
 
Visa is a global sponsor of the Olympics and is the only brand of card payment that is accepted at all Olympic venues – meaning spectators that use an alternative debit or credit card provider will have to turn up to the Games venues with cash.
 
Twenty-seven rival ATM machines have been covered or removed from Olympic venues prior to the Games due to the agreement with Visa.
 
A Visa spokesperson said; "Visa installs thousands of Point-of-Sale devices and a dedicated ATM network at every Olympic Games. There were no cash machines at the Olympic Park as it was built, so we have installed a number of temporary ATM machines.
 
"Eight ATMs have been installed at London 2012 Olympic Venues and this year for the first time at an Olympic and Paralympic Games, contactless payment technology has been implemented across the event venues providing additional ways to pay. ATMs outside the Games venues (for example at Westfield) are unaffected and will be operating as normal.
 
"There are more than 115 million Visa cards in circulation in the UK and the majority of UK banks issue Visa debit cards. According to Which? magazine calculations, 98pc of the UK cardholders will be able to use cards onsite to make purchases and withdraw money at onsite ATMs."
 
This is not the first payment problem at London 2012. Over the first weekend of the Games, thousands of Olympic fans were left hungry and thirsty at Wembley as cards payments are refused and only cash is accepted. Visa blames "Wembley management".
 
The decision not to accept any card payments at Team GB’s Wembley football match 'was made by Wembley management', Visa has claimed.
 
Spectators attending Olympic football games at Wembley Stadium complained of "ridiculous" queues for food and drink after some tills stopped working.
 
Max Gore, 27, from Shepherd's Bush, west London, who attended Sunday's football match at Wembley said: "The queues were ridiculous. I didn't have any cash and I couldn't pay on card.
 
"I asked the person behind the bar if there were any cash machines and they said some had been taken out for the Olympics. "I had to trek around the stadium to find one."
 
Mr Gore added: "The problem went on for the whole evening. There were two games and they couldn't get it fixed."


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/olympic-venues-have-just-8-cash-machines-for-11-million-spectators-2012-7#ixzz22CZBlWld

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2012, 05:37:03 AM »
doesnt matter if romney is right or not.

it's not the place of the wannabe US prez to enter their country as a guest and criticize their efforts.  Classless move.  He could have also brought up the bald spots or weight problems of the people he's meeting.  Or maybe talked about how they could use a little botox on their wrinkles.  Or maybe just talk about why so many brits don't brush their teeth.

however, it's not his damn place to do so.  He's not acting like a statesman.  He's acting like a jerk.  He tries to point out flaws in everything that everyone does.  "These cookies taste like they're from 7-11"... what the hell?  Why be a dick, mitt?

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2012, 05:38:53 AM »
doesnt matter if romney is right or not.

it's not the place of the wannabe US prez to enter their country as a guest and criticize their efforts.  Classless move.  He could have also brought up the bald spots or weight problems of the people he's meeting.  Or maybe talked about how they could use a little botox on their wrinkles.  Or maybe just talk about why so many brits don't brush their teeth.

however, it's not his damn place to do so.  He's not acting like a statesman.  He's acting like a jerk.  He tries to point out flaws in everything that everyone does.  "These cookies taste like they're from 7-11"... what the hell?  Why be a dick, mitt?

Maybe because his entire history is walking into shitty situations and turning them around in successes? 

I'll take a sober cynic w a track record of turning shit around and spinning it into gold vs a communist ghetto destroyer who turns gold into shit any day. 


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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2012, 05:48:25 AM »
Maybe because his entire history is walking into shitty situations and turning them around in successes? 

I'll take a sober cynic w a track record of turning shit around and spinning it into gold vs a communist ghetto destroyer who turns gold into shit any day. 

His role was not to be there as an efficiency expert to help them the the Games.  If it was, he wouldn't be responding to an NBC pundit with short negative answers.  They woudl have contacted him and privately sought his advice.

This was him trashing London's prep to the US media.  Think about that.  Then he visits there.  As the future potential face of the USA.  You just don't do that. 

Romney should have smiled and said "London is going to do an amazing job and the world will celebrate the greatness that is the Olympics".

instead, he just CANT HELP HIMSELF to criticize.  Wait til he blames teachers for their low salary because they're easily replaceable.  Wait til he laughs at the shoddiness of the podium at the debates.  Wait til he blames the lackluster US education ranking as kids just not trying.  HE has been "yes-man'd" for 25 straight years of business + 10 years of governor/campaigning.   People kiss your ass half your life, and THANK you when you shit on them, it just becomes second nature.

He needs to quit being a dick.

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2012, 07:25:47 AM »

July 30, 2012 8:50 pm
 
Games turn London into ‘ghost town’
 
By James Pickford and Jim Pickard
 






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The Olympics is creating a “ghost town” effect in central London as visitors who would normally flock to the capital’s shops, hotels and theatres stay away, casting doubt on expectations of a short-term economic boost from the games.
 
The games have attracted as many as 100,000 foreign visitors to London – more than in previous Olympics. But, on its own, that number significantly lags behind the estimated 300,000 foreign tourists who could be expected in a typical year.

Theatres are among the businesses suffering most from emptier streets.
 
“We’re bleeding, darling,” said Nica Burns, chief executive of Nimax Theatres. “For my six theatres, last week was the worst this year. I think the Olympics are great – but I feel like I’ve been the bullseye for the archery competition.”
 



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Ms Burns forecast that ticket sales at her company’s six West End theatres would be down 30 per cent over the summer.

London’s top museums and tourist attractions are also feeling the pinch. The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, the body representing them, reported a fall of 30-35 per cent in attendance over the past two weeks, compared with last year.
 
 
Bernard Donoghue, ALVA’s chief executive, said its members – who include the British Museum, the Tower of London and the Science Museum – “have been trying to compensate by telling people there are fewer queues and longer opening hours”.

Transport for London, the public body that runs the capital’s Underground and road network, has been warning for months of heavy disruption over the summer in central London and urging travellers to avoid transport hubsand plan alternative routes. The voice of Boris Johnson, London’s mayor, has boomed from station platforms warning of the imminent “huge pressure” on the transport system.
 
TfL said estimates of journeys on the Tube were up 4 per cent on Monday from normal traffic.
 
In response to slow bookings, hotels have now cut prices. Research by Hotels.com said prices in London during the Olympics had fallen around 25 per cent in a two-week period in June.

Nick Palan, managing director for Golden Tours, an open-top tour bus company, said: “It’s totally destroyed the market for us this summer. The hotels put up prices heavily earlier in the year and some of the larger tour companies literally stopped selling London back in May. We’re down by over 20 per cent.”
 
David Cameron, prime minister, has said £13bn of economic investment should flow from the games over four years, some of which is from tourism.
 
But in the short term, the benefits are more elusive. Mark Field, a London Conservative MP, said: “The message has been going out for months that London would be packed to the rafters – and the transport system would be under pressure – and that has put a lot of people off. The high-end hoteliers are fine because of all the official Olympic guests but many others have not benefited so much.”
 
Mr Donoghue of ALVA said the body had asked TfL to alter its advice to travellers: “As long as you avoid peak times and stations, London is surprisingly accessible and open for business.”
 
Additional reporting by Mark Odell in London


http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/0767327a-da6d-11e1-902d-00144feab49a.html#axzz22D5mGYVm

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2012, 07:13:13 AM »
The Olympics Called A 'Complete And Utter Disaster' For London Businesses
Ashley Lutz|8 minutes ago|44|



London businesses are seeing a drastic drop in sales as natives avoid leaving their homes during the Olympic games at the encouragement of the mayor.
 
From restaurants to hotels, everyone's hurting, reports Samantha Conti at Women's Wear Daily reported.
 
“The Olympic Games have been a complete and utter disaster. The shops are empty, the bars are empty, the restaurants are empty,” Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association, said in the Daily Telegraph this week.
 
He also said that taxi drivers have seen a 20 to 40 percent drop in their income this month.
 
And WWD profiled a retailer that was disappointed by Olympic traffic: 
 
The New West End Company — which represents businesses on Oxford, Bond and Regent streets — estimated earlier this year that retailers in London’s West End would make 16.6 million pounds, or $26 million at current exchange, in additional revenue as a direct result of the Olympics.
 
But earlier this week, they were forced to take action to drive shoppers back into the town center.
 
“We have been working on measures to reverse the significant drop in retail spending and visitors into the West End,” the company said in a statement that was sent to its member retailers, and which was seen by WWD. “The forecasts for this summer predicted a different trading pattern and the lack of London workers and domestic visitors has been quickly apparent as a result of Transport for London traffic demand management.”
 
So far, the Olympics haven't been the stimulus that Londoners had hoped for.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/london-olympics-branded-a-disaster-for-local-businesses-2012-8#ixzz22Ua0TuUM


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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2012, 07:32:23 AM »
Maybe because his entire history is walking into shitty situations and turning them around in successes? 

I'll take a sober cynic w a track record of turning shit around and spinning it into gold vs a communist ghetto destroyer who turns gold into shit any day. 



not exactly his entire history

there are also those companies that he intentionally bankrupted in order to cash in for himself

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #15 on: August 03, 2012, 07:33:26 AM »
imagine if a foreign leader came to the US for the Atlanta Games and mocked our preparation or teased us about the bombing that happened.  Didn't we arrest the wrong guy or something?  

We'd hate the fcker for having the audacity to come here and criticize us.  Romney should have stayed positive - but even if you won't admit it - Romney is NOT a positive person.  He's just not.  That negativity comes out with stress, we all know that.  

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #16 on: August 03, 2012, 07:34:43 AM »
imagine if a foreign leader came to the US for the Atlanta Games and mocked our preparation or teased us about the bombing that happened.  Didn't we arrest the wrong guy or something?  

We'd hate the fcker for having the audacity to come here and criticize us.  Romney should have stayed positive - but even if you won't admit it - Romney is NOT a positive person.  He's just not.  That negativity comes out with stress, we all know that.  

Yeah, just like what you obama drones want, a cheerleader spinning turds instead of telling the truth. 


Typical 

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #17 on: August 03, 2012, 07:37:07 AM »
Yeah, just like what you obama drones want, a cheerleader spinning turds instead of telling the truth. 
Typical 

there is a time and a place moron and also something called common courtesy and good sense

if your mother invited me to dinner it would be wrong for me to tell her the food sucks, she needs to lose some weight and her son is a moron even if that were all true (I have no idea of course if your mother is fat and her cooking sucks)


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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #18 on: August 03, 2012, 07:38:00 AM »
there is a time and a place moron and also something called common courtesy and good sense

if your mother invited me to dinner it would be wrong for me to tell her the food sucks, she needs to lose some weight and her son is a moron even if that were all true (I have no idea of course if your mother is fat and her cooking sucks)




LOL/   A little early to be so negative no? 

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2012, 07:41:31 AM »

LOL/   A little early to be so negative no? 

where do you see negativity

I'm trying to help your poor broken mind understand basic manners and common sense that your father should have taught to you about 30 years ago

how about from this angle

it's one thing for a private citizen not feigning to represent our country make disparaging remarks in this situation and another for someone who hopes to be POTUS


his entire European tour was a painful demontration in how utterly unprepared Romney is for the world stage

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2012, 07:44:27 AM »
where do you see negativity

I'm trying to help your poor broken mind understand basic manners and common sense that your father should have taught to you about 30 years ago

how about from this angle

it's one thing for a private citizen not feigning to represent our country make disparaging remarks in this situation and another for someone who hopes to be POTUS


his entire European tour was a painful demontration in how utterly unprepared Romney is for the world stage

LOL.   Coming from the guy who voted for the marxist fuckup who bowed to the saudi king, japanese emporer, said he did not know the "Austrian" language, etc.   

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2012, 07:45:50 AM »
LOL.   Coming from the guy who voted for the marxist fuckup who bowed to the saudi king, japanese emporer, said he did not know the "Austrian" language, etc.   

yes a slight bow to a king is a huge insult


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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2012, 08:48:16 AM »
if a foreign leader came here and lectured us - we could tell him to piss off.   They told "mitt the twit" the same thing.

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #23 on: August 03, 2012, 08:51:32 AM »
DUDE... WE GET IT.. NOW THAT MITT IS RUNNING AGAINST OBAMA.. EVERYTHING HE DOES IS NOW SUDDENLY SUPER AWESOME


so fucking see thru. its not even funny

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Re: Looks like Romney was right to express concerns about Olympics.
« Reply #24 on: August 05, 2012, 06:50:10 AM »
DUDE... WE GET IT.. NOW THAT MITT IS RUNNING AGAINST OBAMA.. EVERYTHING HE DOES IS NOW SUDDENLY SUPER AWESOME


so fucking see thru. its not even funny


ROUBINI: 'The London Olympics Are An Economic Failure As London Is Totally Empty'
Gus Lubin    | Aug. 5, 2012, 7:41 AM | 2,891 | 15

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Economist Nouriel Roubini is tweeting doom about the London Olympics this morning.
From @Nouriel:
UK policymakers scared so much folks before the Olympic that London is a deserted city: non-olympic tourists are away; londoners are gone!
The Olympics are an economic failure as London is totally empty:hotels, restaurants, streets. They scared all off with crowd excess warnings
By scaring every1 to stay out of London with warnings about too many people coming here it turns that London is totally empty, a zombie city
RT @Notgiamatti The Yogi Berra effect! Nobody goes there, it's too crowded.
The West End - usually packed on any Saturday night - was an empty waste land last nite: barely a soul to be found in theaters, bars, etc
They scared away all non-olympic tourists that pack london all summer;they pushed most londoners to escape;they told 2million to work @ home

RT @_garrilla that's the 'olympic economy' - all dispacement & deadweight (oh, and hot air)
Meanwhile London retailers are begging the transport system to stop warning about congestion problems, according to Telegraph's Graham Ruddick.

Retail chief Richard Dickenson told Ruddick: “We know there is a displacement effect. Instead of normal tourists you get sports tourists, we knew that. But we didn’t expect the impact on the London catchment and commuters."

London taxi drivers have reported a 20-to-40 percent drop in income this month, with industry representative Steve McNamara calling the Games "a complete and utter disaster."
Don't miss: 43 signs that the London Olympics will be a disaster >