Germans laugh at ‘Olympic disaster’ as top magazine brands 2012 Games ‘one big, soggy mess’


Via The Daily Mail

They have a reputation for faultless efficiency and planning events with meticulous detail.

So perhaps we should be worried that Germans already believe London 2012 will be an ‘Olympic-sized disaster’.

Germany’s leading news magazine has launched an attack on Britain’s preparations for the Olympics, poking fun at facilities and warning that the Games are destined to go down in history as a gigantic ‘soggy mess’.

The article in Der Spiegel trashes numerous aspects about the Games, from the ‘clattering’ Tube system that will transport most spectators to Olympic venues to pavements that are ‘too narrow’ and a passport control situation at Heathrow bordering on chaotic.

 

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