Tuesday 18 March 2008

Cambridge sport hit by Olympics?

There is an interesting article in the Cambridge News (available here online) about the effect of the London 2012 Olympics on sports funding in the County.

Apparently it could drain off as much as £9.2million from Cambridge City, and a total of £21million from Cambridgeshire as a whole. These figures come from research done by LibDem MP Don Foster.

Whilst I am very excited at the prospect of the Olympics coming to London in 2012, the project does need to be carefully managed. We don't want the legacy of 2012 to be a reduction in sporting activity in the UK! The Labour government needs to learn lessons from earlier projects.

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