"The London Games of 1948 created a sense of "we're all in it together", whereas the 2012 version, has a corporate feel, symbolised by the sale of the athletes' village to the Qatari Sovereign Wealth Fund" [1]
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Qatar is to do with Bahrain and the Qatari Sheikhs. [3]
