The Dark Side of the London Olympics (Part 1/4)
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- VICE takes an in-depth look at the British public's reaction to The Games in London and the negative impact it's having on certain people's lives.
One thing that's great about the Olympics is all the fabulous regeneration in East London. We went to meet all the lucky locals, such as the residents of the Carpenter's Estate, who have been evicted from their homes to make way for the Games. Some of them even got moved to Stoke! Lucky them. Marginally more hyped about the whole thing are the competitors in the Boris Johnson themed "wiff-waff" tournament (that's ping-pong to you, me, and everyone besides Boris).
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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.
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.
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)
been waiting for this all week :D
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Both are awesome. That's what Vice is all about!
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.
I WANT PART 2 RIGHT NOW !!!!!
The UA-cam advertisement on my end prior to this video was for the Olympics itself. Brilliant.
wee, been waiting for these :)
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
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amazing work!!!!!!!!
The opening ceremony was pretty special
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
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.
My thumb went so far up, it just took out a falcon.
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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
It seems everyone is asking about part 2... The video said part 2-4 will be here on Monday.
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Thanks for clearing that up yo.
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To be continued is a big pita, especially when it's interesting enough to watch rest...
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
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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.
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..........
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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Where is part two? It would be nice to see the rest of these before the Olympics go on any further ya?!
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.
is it ironic that the advert for this video was the olympic soundtrack?
Sad to see what has happened to east London. That place has a lot of history and culture.
Glad we're on your mind :)
As someone who lives in newham I can safely say nothing has changed every
Sorry, I got the number wrong. It was 29 million for the ceremony alone, but that is still a huge amount of money.
ur annotation for part is is a subscription annotation and doesnt really go to part 2....
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.
That's like saying the 1976 Olympics weren't a failure because they still happened, even thought the roof still was incomplete.
thank you
If I had an olympic ticket I'd give it to that old man.
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
"...A really really shit opening ceremony, thats my prediction"
oh uh... huh nvm. YOU SAW NOTHING
I dont even watch the Olympics...but this was very interesting
The old guy with the beanie is awesome.
somebody should get that man a ticket for the games
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.
HMM... So this man can afford to book a flight to China and go to that Olympics but cannot afford to get a train and book a ticket to the London Olympics. Even if the London Olympics were expensive, they surely weren't THAT expensive.
Don't rely on the council for you home and they can't tell you to move!
Just wanted to say, your comment restored a little bit of my faith in humanity, "cheers" :P
There was nothing wrong with the opening of the London Olympics, it was inventive and original.
Central Line is hell now .... I live in Leytonstone, so I have to go via Stratford everyday. I feel like tuna in a tin.
The whole thing is on vice.com just like it says in the description..
The lady who said I'm really excited in the beginning teached me to swim lol yolo
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
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.
Disasters have happened at the last Winter Olympics, Beijing, and Atlanta. I wouldn't be surprised if something did happen.
I have to honestly say the black people in this video are actually quite articulate and seem like genuinely nice intelligent people.
Dolores is gonna need two subsidized tickets.
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".
no no, i have no idea what your talking about. hi who are you?
HOLD UP... did that just say Britannia?
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so sorry governor, sir.
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.
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.
Anyone with a british accent seems articulate. Anyone with a southern accent doesn't seem articulate.
oh my bad, thanks!
That old man has a SWAGGED out beanie!
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 irony that you didn't see the intended irony is unbelievable.
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.
Love the way that upper class nitwit laughs and says "I think everything is going to collapse" at 6.53 like it will ever affect her in any way.....
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.
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?
I deleted my comment since I found out that this (like I suspected) is the VICE Guide episode..
"Virtually every international game was either invented or codified by the British"-
your forgetting that WE HAVE NEVER WON THE GAMES WE HAVE INVENTED! Boris needs to lay of the lavender.
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1:46 I found Waldo!
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
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umm I think you misinterpreted that sentence.
Really? 4 different parts on THIS? Dramatised much? There were protests and debates around it, but not to the extent where somebody would choose to make a 50 minute documentary on it.
this is terribly sad! a VICE please get that old man a ticket
why only put up part 1 and not the rest?????
I hear Bejing had to stop production completely just to get the smog to clear before the olympics. This is nothing compared to that.
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Also you have to understand that they are kids! Teenagers aren't concerned about a lot of important things and that is typical regardless if you are talking to a black kid, white kid, orange kid or purple kid. Kids are rarely into the same stuff as adults and most adults care about the olympics.
14 billion for just this year?! Wow, this is a travesty.
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When the title said Dark side I thought of batman
at 1:49, Where's Waldo? right there!!
sorry. I regretted saying that earlier.