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In England, everybody remembers it as a success.

I was actually living in London at the time, and I remember it being pretty shambolic (the buildings weren't ever finished, for example), but if you have your national media on side, I think Olympics can work for you. Hardly anybody actually goes to the event itself, so public perception is basically dependent just on how critical the media is.

It also worked out well for China.