As a Londoner who did the last set of Olympics I don&#x27;t think I could disagree with you more.  Sure some things changed and we lost a few places to 2012; but on the whole we gained so much more.  Maybe we got lucky through politics, but I don&#x27;t think many people in London would like to have the Stratford and East end we had prior to the Olympics back.<p>Hopefully 2020 works out well for Japan, but I don&#x27;t think you can write off the Olympics all together.  The UK gained so much out of them, if at a minimum we took a huge amount of nation pride forward which is probably worth the cost alone.