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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Who'd have thought so?

April 9, 2008 24:00
1 min read

It's hard to believe this, n'est-ce pas?

Olympic chiefs were accused of understating the true cost of the 2012 Games yesterday as it emerged that the bill for the aquatics centre was already four times higher than the original bid price.

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) announced that the contract, which was awarded to Balfour Beatty, had risen from the 2005 price of