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                                            Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), pauses during a news conference in London, in this April 21, 2006 file photo.  
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                                        </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/25229.html"><P>"It seems extraordinary that foreseeable costs were left out of the budget," he said. "Parliament and the public were undoubtedly misled over the true costs of the Olympic project."
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                            The projected pricetag of the 2012 Olympic games in London has more than doubled to $18 billion since the city was picked as host three years ago—and the British  government is being accused of deliberately low-balling estimates to sell the event to the public, the <EM>Guardian</EM> reports. A public spending watchdog says the original figure was completely unrealistic.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/07E4A2E3-F280-4CF6-8F33-ED0A7D952AF3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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