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Forman's Games - The Dark Underside of the London Olympics (Hardcover)
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Forman's Games - The Dark Underside of the London Olympics (Hardcover)
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On 6 July 2005, the world held a collective intake of breath as IOC
president Jacques Rogge declared: 'The games of the 30th Olympiad
in 2012 are awarded to the city of ...London.'Despite the images of
jubilant crowds in the streets of Britain's capital, there were
some, like Lance Forman, for whom those words spelled only dread
and uncertainty. His 100-year-old, fourth-generation family
business, H. Forman & Son, was facing eviction to make way for
the Olympic Stadium, and teetered on the brink of collapse. Lance
Forman's fight to save the firm brought him into open conflict with
many powerful figures, including the then Mayor of London Ken
Livingstone, and Sebastian Coe. A full, unexpurgated account of his
fight to keep the firm alive, Forman's Games lifts the lid on the
fierce battle that pitched Forman's, the country's finest purveyor
of smoked salmon, against the combined might of the UK authorities
and the IOC in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. It is a
story of skulduggery and bullying mounted against 350 local
businesses, employing over 12,00 people, who stood in the way not
just of the world's most famous sporting event, but of an
opportunity to develop the land on which they had successfully run
businesses over decades.
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