Jeffrey Shaw Posted July 21, 2021 Author Share Posted July 21, 2021 Even the BBC has noticed the anniversary. See a more or less accurate report at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-57837682 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Hardie Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Whoopee! Debt linked to Sheffield's World Student Games to be cleared 33 years on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68361306 …and worth every penny for the prestige it brought to the city. Just like it did to the cities of err… err… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffbag Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 2 hours ago, Jim Hardie said: Whoopee! Debt linked to Sheffield's World Student Games to be cleared 33 years on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68361306 …and worth every penny for the prestige it brought to the city. Just like it did to the cities of err… err… Listened to Clive Betts this morning trying to explain the total debt and how the games "only cost £10M and was paid back in a couple of years". SCC then essentially kept remortgaging the loan to the grand total of £650M So given interest is probably about £40M and the games cost £10M What did the other £600M go on? "He said it was the additional loans needed to build the various venues which led to the debt and the perception the event had cost so much was wrong because the council had re-mortgaged the original loan to pay for other services over the years." Don Valley cost £29M to build Sheff Arena - £34M Ponds Forge - £40M So can reasonably wipe out £120M if you include the improvements to the Lyceum that Betts was crowing about as part of the money spend So what about the other £480M on "other services" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffbag Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/sections/news/25may90-uk-ponds-forge-sports-centre-being-built-by-mowlem-24-05-1990/#:~:text=25May90 UK%3A PONDS FORGE SPORTS CENTRE BEING BUILT BY MOWLEM.,-24 May 1990&text=The £41 million Ponds,well as a sports centre. https://sportsmatik.com/sports-corner/sports-venue/sheffield-arena https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-25005073 links for costs thanks to SF's stupid new edit timeout "improvement" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio_peter Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I still use my t shirt . I was a driver for a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prince al Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) An absolute disgrace and a financial waste of gargantuan proportions! Complete folly of incompetent councillors. Held the city back for decades. Edited February 22 by prince al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 For a while I worked on the refurb on Hyde Park flats , for the games . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackey lad Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Forgot to add . I saw the final of the basket ball at Sheffield Arena , only because someone got me free tickets ( there were loads knocking about) . Did anyone pay to see an event ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogets Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 How can someone win, if winning means another person loses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaash Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 I was listening to Radio Sheffield today and there.was an item on the Breakfast Show regarding that all the debt that the Council went into to put on the World Student Games in 1991 has finally beem paid off . Mainly this news item spoke about how much good had come from going into the debt to hold the Games ( ie the Lyceum getting renovated and getting The Arena built etc) however there was no mention about the fact that Don Valley Stadium was eventually demolished and that lots of memorabilia costing thousands of Pounds were left for years unsold in a warehouse apparently. I can remember at the time that there was lots of discussions about whether holding the Student Games was a good idea or not,and i personally think that Demolishing Don Valley Stadium is a good enough reason to say it wasn't . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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