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I'm all for the benefits of the games being spread far and wide throughout the country, but before there's too many complaints about other regions not getting enough out of it, it shouldn't be forgotten that us Londoners have been paying an extra "Olympic charge" on our council tax for the last few years and will continue to for a while to come.

I know it's very early days yet, but any ideas on how the torch relay would be covered. Would it be limited to just updates within the news and on the news channel, or show much more extensively? (though I'm sure by the first hour of people passing it too each other we might get a bit bored of watching it, especially without the threat of it being hijacked by protestors!)

Kind of a shame too the Worldwide element has been scrapped, but surely that kind of went against the eco-friendly attitude the Olympics tries to sell too.

I agree though these are London Olympics, and as much as they are Britain's as well, they should not be diluted just to satisfy a few people who probably aren't that interested in the event itself anyway - they just want the cash.

I'll throw this one back at your Roger: should Hampden Park be allowed to stage any of the football events seeing as the SFA are so against a Team GB? Is that the true Scottish viewpoint on the Games?

Surely to get the most out of the Olympics the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ should create a new Olympic channel, that is free to air and will give the view a choice of all olympic sport not just the main events.

In recent years the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ had developed thier interactive service to inform and entertain the viewer and I hope this contuniues into and well beyond the 2012 Olympics.

I would love to see both of these delivered by the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, creating an all encompassing service for the British and world audiences.

Let's make this the best, and most audience friendly Olympics ever!

The clue, as they say, is in the title. Of course London will benefit, but what is the cause of much regional concern is the outlflow of lottery funding from sport and the arts into East London.

At the moment, there is a trading deficit, and the task of all concerned is to redress that balance.

You should all have a look at the work the South Wales Chamber is doing,
as this is also being repeated around other regions.

If you take time to read the comments of the chamber head and the economic arguments they are making, I hope that you will get behind the project.

Roger, I cannot stress to you that there are major things being developed by the athletes themselves...

'I'll throw this one back at your Roger: should Hampden Park be allowed to stage any of the football events seeing as the SFA are so against a Team GB? Is that the true Scottish viewpoint on the Games?'

Yes it should be. Regardless of the SFA's veto, the team (of many sports) representing our country at the games is a Great Britain and Northern Ireland one which will include plenty of Scottish athletes. Scotland has every right to host some part of the games and a token few football matches is the least it deserves regardless of whether there are Scottish players in the GB football team or not.

Remember the man who took all the headlines in Beijing was one Chris Hoy, a Scot through and through.

"Via Birmingham, Manchester and Loughborough through to London 2012"....the four corners of the United Kingdom?

The "Chris Hoy, a Scot through and through" who "took all the headlines in Beijing" is the same Chris Hoy who was elegant, and sublimely articulate, in explaining that his Olympic medals were not any cause for Salmond and his ilk to bang on their shortbread tins. Without the British coaching and facilities in Birmingham, and without his team mates from throughout the UK, his achievements would have been impossible. He told us this. He was specific, and unambiguous.

Chris Hoy is a proud Scot and a proud Briton. Despite all the noise which might suggest otherwise, there are plenty like him around.

The SFA have their specific reasons for opposing the notion of a GB football team. Agree or disagree with them on the merits of that particular issue, but, please, don't jump onto any bandwagons and make the 2012 Olympics a divisive issue, thereby playing further into the hands of those who would seek to break up GB.

Zootmac (#9) is exactly correct and puts wonderfully what I was about to say - bar I'm sure he meant Manchester rather than Birmingham!

unounos (#6) - I'm all for Scotland doing their bit as we are one United Kingdom, however my point was specifically aimed at the football element - the SFA seem to want to have their cake and eat it on this one.

I just hope OFCOM hijacking one mux on Freeview for HD doesn't mean the interactive service suffers.

They claim people want the Olympics in HD (but that would only be one channel anyway, two at most), but I always saw the 2012 digital switchover and 2012 London Olympics as the opportunity to put a full interactive service on Freeview for the games, even if those interactive streams were lost to other services afterwards.

Re: Football - whatever you think of Sebb Blatter, the official line from FIFA was that they would support a one-off Team GB for the London Olympics (and they put that in writing) - and it's the Welsh, NI and especially Scottish FA who have created a myth their national status would be lost should they agree - for reasons which really benefit no-one.

As a Welsh man, if we are represented in football at the Olympics I want it to be by a truly British team, not an English team.

Both a mens and womens team represented Great Britain at the recent Universiade Games (World Student Games). Not sure of the make up of these teams - I expect they were selected through BUSA (the British Uni Sports Assoc.) rather than with any involvement of the national football associations.

Can I please put my name down for the London meeting. Would be great to talk about how the public can enhance the games using the variety of skills and abilities that have grown in our multicultural society especially coupled with the power of the internet. Who can I talk to about helping make this happen from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's side? @whymandesign