The Dome. These two words should be whispered into the ear of every hubristic politician proclaiming the inevitable excellence of the 2012 Olympics. Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, has promised for the opening ceremony "the biggest and best rock show the world has ever witnessed," a vision of actuarial optimism featuring such youthful artists as Elton John, Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones. London's mayor, Boris Johnson, who at least proved he knows how to entertain Olympic audiences with his fumbled, tangled wave of the Olympic flag handed over to him in Beijing, swears that the London games will be "fantabulous."
Brown and Johnson sit on the Olympic Board alongside the Olympics minister Tessa Jowell and other "stakeholders," who will advise and oversee Olympics planning. Two further bodies, the Olympic Delivery Authority and the London 2012 Organizing Committee (LOCOG), have been given budgets of 9.3 billion pounds and 2 billion pounds, respectively, to build venues and infrastructure and for preparing and staging the event. A creative director will be appointed "in a year or so," says a spokeswoman for London 2012. "Obviously on any creative plans we'll want general agreement from stakeholders and everything will be signed off by LOCOG."
source: time.com
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