Sport & Politics
LET THE DEBATE Q
Editor Sarah Juggins joins colleagues from the UK’s sporting press at an Olympic Question Time featuring an infl uential panel of individuals from the sporting and political world
uestions about legacy, ticket prices, the dispute between two of the Olympic Games’ organising bodies and the eligibility of Gareth Bale to play for Great Britain, were among the questions posed to a panel of Olympic experts by members of the Sports Journalists Association. County Hall on London’s South Bank was
the setting for Olympic Question Time, hosted by former BBC Five Live sports reporter Sybil Ruscoe and introduced by the president of the Sports Journalist Association, Sir Michael Parkinson. T e panel consisted of Sports Minister and Minister
for the Olympics, Hugh Robertson, chief executive of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), Paul Deighton, Baroness Sue
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Campbell, who is chair of UK Sport, the president of the Irish Cycling Federation, Pat McQuaid, and NBC sports correspondent and author of many sports books, Alan Abrahamson. T e gathered audience was comprised of sports
journalists from the national papers and sports magazines, websites and bloggers, and the questions posed by the audience refl ected many of the issues that are being raised on a daily basis by members of the public in the run-up to the Games in 2012.
AN ‘ARCANE’ DEBATE T e fi rst question raised the issue of the ongoing dispute between LOCOG and the British Olympic Association over the amount of post-Games revenue that should be given to the cash-strapped BOA. T ere was a general consensus among panel
members that the argument was embarrassing for those involved in it, but the impact of the row upon the successful running of the Games would be nil. Hugh Robertson, when pushed by Roscoe about the
fact that it was a prior Conservative sports minister, Colin Moynihan, who was at the centre of the row,
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