I COMPLETELY agree with the proposition that the legacy that London 2012 will leave will be a much better developed east London that otherwise would have been very deprived. It will be a physical construction legacy. Lessons from Athens 2004 and Sydney 2000 have clearly been learned. But in terms of the actual blinking lights, sensors, relays and all the grass roots componentry, as well as the IT, communications, measurement and broadcast transmission systems that go into making the electronic backbone of the games, its hard to see what lasting legacy these will have. Evidently, this is a huge project management feat and the technology behind integrating these systems is undeniably amazing. If you look at the way it is all linked together, coupled with the fact that it all has to be 100 per cent reliable, then it is hard to take away from the contractors and the development engineers the scale of their achievement. But to say that a job well done is a legacy is to overstate that achievement.
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