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The 2012 Olympic Games were to open with a grand ceremony that would showcase London to a global audience. The cost was estimated at £41 million. As British prime minister David Cameron stated in 2012 after doubling the budget for the event, the Opening Ceremony is “a great advertisement and if you think of the millions of pounds we are spending, it’s probably worth between two and five billion of free publicity for the country.”1
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Lindsay, I. (2014). Securitization: The Olympic Lockdown?. In: Living with London’s Olympics. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137453211_8
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