MONEY MATTERS

摘要

This is the other Olympic gold rush - the race to attract London 2012 events, stimulate local econ-omies, and sign up foreign teams.At around the same time the schedule of Olympic events was published, news came that the Chinese had chosen to set up a pre-games training camp in Leeds. Meanwhile, in Wales, Car-diff was celebrating being chosen to host the first action of next year's Olympics at its Millennium Stadium. Both these announcements followed confirmation that the men's and women's road cycle races were to take place on 130 miles of Surrey's roads, after the county council spent months in talks with the London Organis-ing Committee of the Olympic Games to attract the events.