3. Topics
• Noise pollution
• Overcrowding
• High security
• Clearance of businesses
• Tickets
• Visas
4. Noise pollution
One of the social disadvantages
of the Olympics is the noise
pollution. The noise pollution
is caused by the number of
different transport methods
used to get to the location of
the Olympics, the crowds in
the Olympic village and finally
the events going on in and
around the various Olympic
locations, such as the Olympic
stadium. This may be a real joy
to most but there are a few that
may call this a nuisance.
5. overcrowding
Due to the Olympics, the City of
London has been overcrowded.
This is a picture of a tube station
during one of the Olympic days. It
is obvious that the working people
found it difficult to reach work on
time, as this was the cheapest
mode of transport. This also
occurred in places such as Oxford
street and other London tourist
attractions.
6. High security
Increased security not only in airports
is increasing doubts about racist
policing. In the City of London there is
now 12,000 police, 21,000 security
guards, US officials are bringing 1,000
agents (some of whom will be armed)
and 500 FBI officers. Sponsors such as
Coca-Cola will have their own private
security personnel. Also 12,000 troops,
including 4,000-5,000 specialist
personnel, a partial militarization of
the police, with armed police, CCTV
networks are intended to be
integrated, and mobile location
tracking and facial recognition
technology will be in operation and
Ground-to-air missiles will be placed.
7. Clearances of local
businesses
250 local businesses
had to be moved
out of the area,
Such as H.Forman
& Son. This would
be bad for the local
businesses as this
location might have
been a prime
location for their
business and they
would have to
spend extra finance
to be relocated.
8. Tickets
Ticket prices were very high. The
Olympics is supposed to be about
getting together as one big family
and enjoying a fortnight of sports
free to watch for everyone around
the world. However the free to
watch bit is not possible because
of the expensive ticket prices.
Even if you watch it on tv, you
would not experience it, like how
its supposed to be experienced.
The One big family is also only
available for the people who can
get day passes for the Olympic
Park.
9. Visas
Referring back to the
previous slide, the
Olympics will not be
available for people
everywhere in the world
as The UK Border
Agency has made
getting visas very strict
and plane tickets really
expensive. Some
families flew and landed
here but were shipped
back as soon as they
touched the ground.
10. In conclusion
• Even though there may be more positive social
impacts, for most of these facts ,there are
disadvantages. Such as after the Olympics, the
housing made for the sports people will be given
sold back to the residents, who were moved in
order to build the Olympic village. However, this
may not ever happen ,as the past residents may
not be able to afford the new housing as it may be
too expensive. I think, due to Noise pollution,
Overcrowding, High security, Clearance of
businesses, Tickets, Visas and other social
disadvantages that the Olympics was not worth it
socially.
