The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were awarded to London based largely on the promised legacy that the Games would leave, with benefits for more than just the athletes who would compete there. The 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester had been the blueprint for what the UK could deliver, and the incredible legacy left by the Manchester Games did the London bid no harm at all.
However, in the build-up to the London Olympics, the legacy buzzword came to be somewhat overused, especially as a justification when someone criticised the money being spent or the upheaval associated with staging such an event. If the inconvenience was linked to the ‘Games legacy’, surely everything would be okay…
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