On this score, London looks much better than Athens, which overspent by a factor of far more than two—and the great record-breaker, Montreal, whose citizens were paying for the 1976 games for decades.

从这一点来看，伦敦要比雅典和蒙特利尔好许多。雅典奥运会远超预算一倍有余，而蒙特利尔作为最牛的破纪录者，让她的市民为1976年奥运会还了几十年的债。