Just prior to the holding of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 leading economists warned that quote "we will play.....and suffer(financially) later". Here we are 8 years after these Games were held...and those economists were spot on. New South Wales is not only knee deep....but neck deep in financial trouble. Thanks to the sport ego tripping by the previous Fahey Liberal Government in NSW in electing to, and holding the Games. I wonder what the people in NSW prefer.....a better school...hospital or....the so -called "spectacle" of the opening of the "best ever" Olympic Games in Sydney?