four-man bobsled driver. "I'm just elated." "And I can't tell you how proud I am of Holcomb and the gang and for Steve to pull it together and hold it together in just his second Olympic Games.
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China's preparations to holdtheOlympicGames that August further fuelled patriotic sentiment, which welled up again in the wake of the global financial crisis.
It was even better when Mr Cameron appeared to respond in kind with a slight on Salt Lake City by saying "of course it is easier if you hold an OlympicGames in the middle of nowhere".
London has spent seven years planning to holdtheGames and a spokesman from the London Organizing Committee of theOlympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) told CNN last week that every eventuality had been accounted for.