Considering Ronald McDonald is linked with the nutritional aspect of the Games I couldn’t give a **** about the rest of it.

but hardly a surprise given the commercialism of the rest of the games.

What would you rather?
Pay up front, know you’re paying and be able to make a decision. Or, have the cost built into the price of your bike/components whether you attend events or not. 😉

You don’t have to watch it from Donkey green. Just go further along the boxhill road and it will be free, you still get to see it 8 times.

The Police would treat you as Terrorists.

What they’ve failed to mention is that if you have to buy the tickets through the Olympic ticketing system there will be an additional charge of £6 simply for delivery.
(ignoring the fact you have to have a Visa card etc).

Don’t see the problem personally. It’s private land, they’re entitled to charge for it. No-one is forcing you to pay to watch it there, other places are available. From all the bleating you’d think that Box Hill was the only place in the world to watch it from.

And do you want a well managed spot with good access and good views or do you just want some mad free for all? What’s that, you’d like option one? Well shut up and pay £15 then.

That’s why they have test events, to sort out the logistical issues… Now they’ve done that, they’ve worked out they can fit 15,000 people onto the hill and how to manage those numbers.

Cycling Weekly didn’t help with the test event stuff either, constant negative publicity and then refusing to hand out the allocation of wristbands that they’d been given “in protest”.

They need to charge to cover the costs of resurfacing Box Hill for the Olympics! WTF!! Ridiculous, Olympics going to be a huge disappointment I fear.

I can’t comment on the road cycling, but I’ve got tickets to the paralympic track finals that I’m really looking forward to.

Overall though, I think the Olympics is far too corporate when the focus should be on sports and sports participation. Charlie Brooker summed it up rather well when he mentioned that limescale remover has a London2012 logo on it due to the P&G association – article in the Guardian I think.