Perhaps the end of the Olympic drain on National Lottery funding will return to public projects elsewhere.

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The London organizing committee offered Britons a chance to buy Olympic tickets through a complicated multistage lottery and set up a resale program to allow for the authorized resale of unwanted tickets.

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The chief complaint is that a big dollop of Olympic money is coming from the national lottery's charitable fund.

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It was agreed that the lottery would be repaid from future returns from developments at the Olympic Park, but the committee said current projections suggest the first payment will not be until the mid-2020s.

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She said the Lottery would benefit from profit sharing based on rises in land values in the Olympic park area.

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