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Olympics and Paralympics (Funding)

A couple of Members have described themselves, most self-effacingly, as ““not a great sportsman”” or as ““not having much to do with sport,”” but will not the legacy of the Olympics also cover the cultural Olympiad, to which those Members might feel themselves to be more suited? As my hon. Friend has said, there are marketing and tourism opportunities, and opportunities for the creative industries. The Olympics do not exist in a vacuum. Their impact on our whole economy will be enormous, and people will be able to involve themselves in many activities besides sport.