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Should U.K. Residents Outside of London Resent the Olympics?
Organizers are trying to sell the Olympics as 'Britain’s games.' But England's non-Londoners aren't buying it.
London’s games are really Britain’s games. That, at least, is the message that organizers of this summer’s Olympics have been trying to sell to UK residents.
Britain’s capital has a domestic reputation as a resource-guzzling prima donna that snaffles up spare cash before the rest of the country gets a look, but with the whole country footing the tax bill, the London Olympic Committee has been obliged to spread at least some of the love.