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

BBC: What grand projects come next?

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.

WSJ: Social Media

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

ECONOMIST: The Olympics and charities