The Olympics are a failure

"UK policymakers scared so much folks before the Olympic that London is a deserted city: non-olympic tourists are away; londoners are gone! "
" The Olympics are an economic failure as London is totally empty:hotels, restaurants, streets. They scared all off with crowd excess warnings "
"By scaring every1 to stay out of London with warnings about too many people coming here it turns that London is totally empty, a zombie city "
"The West End - usually packed on any Saturday night - was an empty waste land last nite: barely a soul to be found in theaters, bars, etc "
"They scared away all non-olympic tourists that pack london all summer;they pushed most londoners to escape;they told 2 million to work @ home "
--http://nourielroubini.blogspot.com/2012/08/roubini-olympics-economic-failure.html

Ok, it's official. London will be a case study in how NOT to run the Olympics.  Not as bad as Athens, but still not good

Update:   http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/07-08-2012/121856-london_olympics-0/