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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Nigel Nelson

Boris Johnson's Olympics plan to get people playing more sport has fallen flat

The aim of the £8.8billion London Olympics championed by Boris Johnson to get more people playing sport has fallen flat, say MPs.

A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped.

It took a 2015 revamp of the community sport strategy to improve take up rates - but only by a measly 1.2%.

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