First of all I'm born and lived in Beijing. And this is exactly what happened back in 2008 Beijing olympics. This kind of city "face lift" are always considered and executed to show the world a positive image. It's like fixing your hair,washing your face before a date. It's totally understandable for these civilians to protest against it, and it's very unfortunate.
They’re complaining about how the area has a lot of noise, I’m sure their flats are worth a lot lot more now because of the regeneration not to mention the incredible views they get from their balconies. I’d love to live in one of the flats overlooking the Olympic park.
I completely agree with this. Being British I was thinking it would be quite hard to follow for a foreigner but for the people that understood it, it was fantastic (imo)
This is a really good, and necessary, documentary. The perfect antidote to the endless pro-olympic bilge pumped out of the TV and radio that I spend most of my day trying to avoid.
In Britain you are allowed to throw away a certain amount of 'nuclear' waste without having to register it under the hazardous materials act (we're talking mere grams of the stuff here). But the reactor they were talking about was buried many years ago when the controls for this sort of material were very different, the idea being that we weren't going to dig it up and build an Olympic park on top of it..........
To be honest, this stuff happens where ever the Olympics is being held. Its happening in Rio now. After the Olympics is over, most of those places become empty. Rarely being used and ends up just being a eye sore to the locals.
London is the only place in history that actually utilized their stadium though. Sochi, Rio, Montreal, Athens, and Beijing were disastrous and I feel so bad for their economies.' Montreal said it took the tax payers 30 years to pay off the stadium and I think it's been abandoned since the 70s
I think Atlanta beat this pattern. I lived there for 18 years after the Olympics and we seemed to be doing fine. Probably because we actually still use most the stadiums we had to build for the Olympics after they ended. I think.
Olympics is one of the greatest ever on earth concerning games and sports. No matter what happens in any of this olympic events or host cities, it's work of uniting, friending and promoting souls on earth. SO LET US ALL GROW IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS
In '96 Atlanta was transformed from the ghetto where you go to get robbed or stabbed to a relatively world class city. It really turned the city around, but I'm sure London is completely different animal.
I hate sports. I never watch the Olympics and probably never will. But I hope it never stops. There's so much history in it, I don't think it should ever stop. As was said, it's the only world event that brings the world together... We need more of that. Much more.
I live North of Chicago. Chicago put in a bid for the olympic games in 2020 i believe. You have to realize when you are hosting an event like this it has a negative effect on the public. Streets are closed so it's harder to get to work. Lots of tourism raises crime because all big cities have areas that are slums. It also costs alot of money to host. Chicago spent a few million dollars just to bid on the olympics and lost to rio de janero and Illinois is broke completely out of money.
If a woman with 2 kids is getting moved to a hotel, the only thing that has changed is where she lives so she still has to work. Your excuse saying the mother cant go to work to look after her kids anymore is lame. What do you think she did before? They want a new house. They want everything given to them
The games gave memories that will be cherished in nations across the globe. Kirani james winning grenada's first ever gold medal was a huge occasion for the country, one that will have lifted them, or mo farah, doing the same for the people in somalia, even though he is now british. The olympics may not have helped people in a physical sense, but it will have lifted them, brought some happiness around. If all we spent our money on was research and technology, the world would be a glummer place.
I live in Bby and work at a drug and alcohol facility in downtown. I can assure you that the police did not round up the homeless and send them into the suburbs. They handed out tickets, and arrested some who did not pay so as to keep them in jail during the Olympics. If they did move them into the nearby cities, they would have just gotten on the skytrain and moved back into downtown. Don't make such broad assumptions
Unfortunately the regulation that appears in Manhattan isn't being applied here. There have been a couple of documentaries in the British media (see dispatches on channel 4) that have interviewed people who's contracts are not being renewed or can only be renewed if you pay anywhere up to £1000 per week because they know they can get this from Olympic visitors. Now I know that a renewed contract doesn't quite fall under rent control but the landlords are throwing people out to make a quick buck.
Hurp: Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Batrachology is a further subdiscipline of herpetology concerned with the study of amphibians alone.
Living a little under 60 miles from London, it is a city that inspires me - I find it fascinating, beguiling, frustrating, frightening and charming at a turn. There are areas and corners of it that I know initmately and others that remain almost foreign. The 'London Olympics' remain an anathema to me however simply because of their very nature....In an age of such supposed 'eqaulity' why should we be impressed by one persons ability to run/jump/swim faster than another?
Did you miss the bit about the gentrification? The guy at 10:10 starts talking about it. Poor families in London have been getting evicted from their homes and forced to live in hotels in places like Birmingham and Manchester, this isn't just something that happened during the Olympics, it's still happening in London right now and it will continue because of the new benefit caps being introduced. That's pretty serious and I wouldn't call it "whinging".
I'm under the impression that the people who were evicted were in benefit houses that they didn't own in the first place. Getting a free very very high value and expensive house in a area that richer paying families want to move into means that Its reasonable to expect to be moved to a cheaper town or area. Would you want benefit scroungers taking a house from a family willing to pay for it?
Take in mind i live in Canada, and never heard it called football i thank im right. If i was talking about Europe or south America i would have called it football but as you know football means something different in canada and usa.
same thing happened Vancouver 2012. they rounded up the homeless onto school buses from around the lower mainland and dropped them all off further east.
1200 Pounds a month salary really isn't that much......It equates to £14400 a year before tax and national insurance. When you consider the average rent/mortgage in London is somewhere in the region of £600 a month you're not really looking at a lot of money left over to pay for things like food and bills. I admit that in the past Britain did it's fair share of horrid things to the rest of the world but there are some serious economic problems here that need sorting.
I'm not british but it seemed to go much better than they had expected and it really brought the country together. Sounds corny, but I genuinely believe it.
No it is not, Because there was enough security when it started, thats like me saying that they weren't going to finish the roof in 1976, but then hired extra workers so they did....
just take a gallon of dishsoap water mix and water the select trees that they just planted that you say.. dont like and they will be gone very soon) just a hint make your space!
I was a 'victim' of the 2010 winter olympics in whistler BC. Lived there happily for awhile and supported myself working amongst other 'ski bums' and lots of euro's and auzzies having a gap year paid for by their parents, no resentment, however, the olympics come and for 3 months I can't drive to work anymore because of checkpoints and our rent triples, hard for someone paying $450 to have to pay $1300. Lived in houses made for 4 packed with 15 people olympics fucked some of us locals right up
It's good that these points are getting pointed out but Olympics aren't a massive shamble. The eviction of people from their homes was out of order and should never of happened. The money it should bring to the economy is a positive.
I understand what you're saying, but the UK actually made a profit off of the olypmics, it is in no way a waste of money for them, more of an investment. Although I do agree with you that more money to the things that you mentioned would improve the world
Sorry I got the number mixed up with a space program I read about that day, it was 27 million pounds. Dunno why I wrote that down, obviously couldn't of been fourteen billion. But nonetheless - 27 million for an opening ceremony is a balls load of money, that seems excessive.
For a short time, remember after the olympics are done you have to pay a couple million dollars a year for upkeep for that giant stadium collecting dust.
How is there radioactive waste just randomly in the middle of a populated city? That stuff should be either locked away in a secret location or in space.
I certainly did not appreciate having shells and surface to air misses on top of my house. Well, it's over now, and fortunately nothing bad happened. The paralympics was actually better.
No, I'm afraid statistically speaking it will be a huge loss making enterprise for Britain. Historically host nations don't make anywhere near as much money as it costs to host the Olympics. Also, historically, the amount of revenue and extra tourism generated by the games falls far short of any predictions......... A quick side note as well, this games has gone 100% over budget so far.
not saying everyone got effected but I didn't anticipate the rise in costs for everything, I had my full time job and full time 'partying/riding' position and I didn't have lots of money to begin with. your savings don't go a long way when the expenses of daily life triples no need to tell you that, all the kids there on gap years had the best time of their lives not having to work. I had a friend make 25k profit scalping tickets/selling drugs, only success story from our circle
First of all I'm born and lived in Beijing. And this is exactly what happened back in 2008 Beijing olympics. This kind of city "face lift" are always considered and executed to show the world a positive image. It's like fixing your hair,washing your face before a date. It's totally understandable for these civilians to protest against it, and it's very unfortunate.
They’re complaining about how the area has a lot of noise, I’m sure their flats are worth a lot lot more now because of the regeneration not to mention the incredible views they get from their balconies. I’d love to live in one of the flats overlooking the Olympic park.
@@TreeMovies Many do, especially in East. Thatcher enabled many of the families to purchase their properties.
I completely agree with this. Being British I was thinking it would be quite hard to follow for a foreigner but for the people that understood it, it was fantastic (imo)
This is a really good, and necessary, documentary. The perfect antidote to the endless pro-olympic bilge pumped out of the TV and radio that I spend most of my day trying to avoid.
In Britain you are allowed to throw away a certain amount of 'nuclear' waste without having to register it under the hazardous materials act (we're talking mere grams of the stuff here). But the reactor they were talking about was buried many years ago when the controls for this sort of material were very different, the idea being that we weren't going to dig it up and build an Olympic park on top of it..........
To be honest, this stuff happens where ever the Olympics is being held. Its happening in Rio now. After the Olympics is over, most of those places become empty. Rarely being used and ends up just being a eye sore to the locals.
London is the only place in history that actually utilized their stadium though. Sochi, Rio, Montreal, Athens, and Beijing were disastrous and I feel so bad for their economies.' Montreal said it took the tax payers 30 years to pay off the stadium and I think it's been abandoned since the 70s
I think Atlanta beat this pattern. I lived there for 18 years after the Olympics and we seemed to be doing fine. Probably because we actually still use most the stadiums we had to build for the Olympics after they ended. I think.
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Olympics is one of the greatest ever on earth concerning games and sports. No matter what happens in any of this olympic events or host cities, it's work of uniting, friending and promoting souls on earth. SO LET US ALL GROW IN THE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS
In '96 Atlanta was transformed from the ghetto where you go to get robbed or stabbed to a relatively world class city. It really turned the city around, but I'm sure London is completely different animal.
It seems everyone is asking about part 2... The video said part 2-4 will be here on Monday.
The UA-cam advertisement on my end prior to this video was for the Olympics itself. Brilliant.
I hate sports. I never watch the Olympics and probably never will.
But I hope it never stops. There's so much history in it, I don't think it should ever stop.
As was said, it's the only world event that brings the world together... We need more of that. Much more.
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I live North of Chicago. Chicago put in a bid for the olympic games in 2020 i believe. You have to realize when you are hosting an event like this it has a negative effect on the public. Streets are closed so it's harder to get to work. Lots of tourism raises crime because all big cities have areas that are slums. It also costs alot of money to host. Chicago spent a few million dollars just to bid on the olympics and lost to rio de janero and Illinois is broke completely out of money.
at 1:49, Where's Waldo? right there!!
If a woman with 2 kids is getting moved to a hotel, the only thing that has changed is where she lives so she still has to work. Your excuse saying the mother cant go to work to look after her kids anymore is lame. What do you think she did before?
They want a new house. They want everything given to them
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Sad to see what has happened to east London. That place has a lot of history and culture.
I WANT PART 2 RIGHT NOW !!!!!
been waiting for this all week :D
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Luke Milton so sad
Lol, I love you how can tell he's proud of that comment. Sitting back in his chair grinning, thinking "owned".
The games gave memories that will be cherished in nations across the globe. Kirani james winning grenada's first ever gold medal was a huge occasion for the country, one that will have lifted them, or mo farah, doing the same for the people in somalia, even though he is now british. The olympics may not have helped people in a physical sense, but it will have lifted them, brought some happiness around. If all we spent our money on was research and technology, the world would be a glummer place.
I live in Bby and work at a drug and alcohol facility in downtown. I can assure you that the police did not round up the homeless and send them into the suburbs. They handed out tickets, and arrested some who did not pay so as to keep them in jail during the Olympics. If they did move them into the nearby cities, they would have just gotten on the skytrain and moved back into downtown. Don't make such broad assumptions
Central Line is hell now .... I live in Leytonstone, so I have to go via Stratford everyday. I feel like tuna in a tin.
Where is part two? It would be nice to see the rest of these before the Olympics go on any further ya?!
Disasters have happened at the last Winter Olympics, Beijing, and Atlanta. I wouldn't be surprised if something did happen.
Unfortunately the regulation that appears in Manhattan isn't being applied here. There have been a couple of documentaries in the British media (see dispatches on channel 4) that have interviewed people who's contracts are not being renewed or can only be renewed if you pay anywhere up to £1000 per week because they know they can get this from Olympic visitors. Now I know that a renewed contract doesn't quite fall under rent control but the landlords are throwing people out to make a quick buck.
The opening ceremony was pretty special
The whole thing is on vice.com just like it says in the description..
Hurp: Herpetology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gymnophiona) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Batrachology is a further subdiscipline of herpetology concerned with the study of amphibians alone.
Decaying Industrial Grunge is a band i used to listen too......
ur annotation for part is is a subscription annotation and doesnt really go to part 2....
Sorry, I got the number wrong. It was 29 million for the ceremony alone, but that is still a huge amount of money.
Living a little under 60 miles from London, it is a city that inspires me - I find it fascinating, beguiling, frustrating, frightening and charming at a turn. There are areas and corners of it that I know initmately and others that remain almost foreign. The 'London Olympics' remain an anathema to me however simply because of their very nature....In an age of such supposed 'eqaulity' why should we be impressed by one persons ability to run/jump/swim faster than another?
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Just wanted to say, your comment restored a little bit of my faith in humanity, "cheers" :P
hey. vancouver did that same thing when the olympics were held there. (got rid of the people aroudn the area)
Did you miss the bit about the gentrification? The guy at 10:10 starts talking about it. Poor families in London have been getting evicted from their homes and forced to live in hotels in places like Birmingham and Manchester, this isn't just something that happened during the Olympics, it's still happening in London right now and it will continue because of the new benefit caps being introduced. That's pretty serious and I wouldn't call it "whinging".
why only put up part 1 and not the rest?????
I'm under the impression that the people who were evicted were in benefit houses that they didn't own in the first place.
Getting a free very very high value and expensive house in a area that richer paying families want to move into means that Its reasonable to expect to be moved to a cheaper town or area.
Would you want benefit scroungers taking a house from a family willing to pay for it?
What song is playing at end?? its beautiful.
Thanks for dropping knowledge
wtf? A Westfield mall?????? Wow I live in L.A and we have one of those? Damn commercialization sure can travel... didn't know it was Aussie either
As someone who lives in newham I can safely say nothing has changed every
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I love Freakonomics! Great podcast.
Take in mind i live in Canada, and never heard it called football i thank im right. If i was talking about Europe or south America i would have called it football but as you know football means something different in canada and usa.
same thing happened to the vancouver 2010 winter olympics... >_>
thank you
Anybody knows what's the music @ 3:02 ? song name would be great.
To be continued is a big pita, especially when it's interesting enough to watch rest...
oh my bad, thanks!
same thing happened Vancouver 2012. they rounded up the homeless onto school buses from around the lower mainland and dropped them all off further east.
I've been waiting for both all week to be frank.
Can't watch the rest on my phone. Greeeeat made me turn on my pc for this
1200 Pounds a month salary really isn't that much......It equates to £14400 a year before tax and national insurance. When you consider the average rent/mortgage in London is somewhere in the region of £600 a month you're not really looking at a lot of money left over to pay for things like food and bills. I admit that in the past Britain did it's fair share of horrid things to the rest of the world but there are some serious economic problems here that need sorting.
I hear Bejing had to stop production completely just to get the smog to clear before the olympics. This is nothing compared to that.
I'm not british but it seemed to go much better than they had expected and it really brought the country together. Sounds corny, but I genuinely believe it.
+Dorookie no we have not, overall it was a great success.
1:46 I found Waldo!
where is part 2 3 and 4 ?
1 part for each day?
No it is not, Because there was enough security when it started, thats like me saying that they weren't going to finish the roof in 1976, but then hired extra workers so they did....
The old guy with the beanie is awesome.
How's the english classes in Finland?
Unfourtnetly yes, and way more than they sould be.
That's like saying the 1976 Olympics weren't a failure because they still happened, even thought the roof still was incomplete.
is part 2/4 up?
You should of done this for the FIFA world cup in south Africa.. it made put my country into such dept
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just take a gallon of dishsoap water mix and water the select trees that they just planted that you say.. dont like and they will be gone very soon) just a hint make your space!
Part 2?
"...A really really shit opening ceremony, thats my prediction"
WHERE IS PART 2?!?!?!?!?
wee, been waiting for these :)
My thumb went so far up, it just took out a falcon.
I was wondering about that too...
This bill...includes railways and subways which provide transportation of goods and humans in a far more economically safe way. So...yeah
I was a 'victim' of the 2010 winter olympics in whistler BC. Lived there happily for awhile and supported myself working amongst other 'ski bums' and lots of euro's and auzzies having a gap year paid for by their parents, no resentment, however, the olympics come and for 3 months I can't drive to work anymore because of checkpoints and our rent triples, hard for someone paying $450 to have to pay $1300. Lived in houses made for 4 packed with 15 people olympics fucked some of us locals right up
@tejas...well said.
somebody should get that man a ticket for the games
where are the other parts??
It's good that these points are getting pointed out but Olympics aren't a massive shamble. The eviction of people from their homes was out of order and should never of happened. The money it should bring to the economy is a positive.
The lady who said I'm really excited in the beginning teached me to swim lol yolo
I understand what you're saying, but the UK actually made a profit off of the olypmics, it is in no way a waste of money for them, more of an investment. Although I do agree with you that more money to the things that you mentioned would improve the world
Sorry I got the number mixed up with a space program I read about that day, it was 27 million pounds. Dunno why I wrote that down, obviously couldn't of been fourteen billion.
But nonetheless - 27 million for an opening ceremony is a balls load of money, that seems excessive.
Greenway eh? It's weird how you hear some random thing during the day, and then you hear it again in a completely unrelated way.
its realy quite sad for those people who live there and are being treated like shit
For a short time, remember after the olympics are done you have to pay a couple million dollars a year for upkeep for that giant stadium collecting dust.
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How is there radioactive waste just randomly in the middle of a populated city? That stuff should be either locked away in a secret location or in space.
I certainly did not appreciate having shells and surface to air misses on top of my house. Well, it's over now, and fortunately nothing bad happened. The paralympics was actually better.
No, I'm afraid statistically speaking it will be a huge loss making enterprise for Britain. Historically host nations don't make anywhere near as much money as it costs to host the Olympics. Also, historically, the amount of revenue and extra tourism generated by the games falls far short of any predictions......... A quick side note as well, this games has gone 100% over budget so far.
amazing work!!!!!!!!
not saying everyone got effected but I didn't anticipate the rise in costs for everything, I had my full time job and full time 'partying/riding' position and I didn't have lots of money to begin with. your savings don't go a long way when the expenses of daily life triples no need to tell you that, all the kids there on gap years had the best time of their lives not having to work. I had a friend make 25k profit scalping tickets/selling drugs, only success story from our circle
this is terribly sad! a VICE please get that old man a ticket
Why not?
oh uh... huh nvm. YOU SAW NOTHING
If I had an olympic ticket I'd give it to that old man.