The last one was in China where no-one would be surprised to hear about abuses done in the name of the spectacle.
It seems however we've imported this totalitarian state to the UK.
To wit, boy riding his bike assaulted by the Torch Guardians:
All the food vendors at the Olympics banned from selling chips, because McDonalds sell them:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172168/London-Olympics-2012-McDonalds-force-Olympics-bosses-ban-restaurants-selling-chips-unless-FISH.html
Ground-to-air missiles sited on blocks of flats
stoptheolympicmissiles.org/
13,500 troops deployed, more than in Afghanistan, thousands more, many unpaid, private security staff, attack dogs, sound torture device
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-18042528
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/10/london-olympics-lockdown-2012-games
All cashpoints shut down at Olympics sites if they take cards other than Visa, non-Visa cards banned for payment
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153008/Visa-branded-cynical-bans-rival-cards-Olympics.html
Advertising exclusion zones around all the Olympic sites
www.london2012.com/business/advertising-and-trading-regulations/
£675m taken from charities to pay for it
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/london-2012/9366935/London-2012-Olympics-Charities-who-lost-funding-to-pay-for-the-Games-wont-see-their-money-for-another-decade.html
Total fuck-up for central London for transport/living for weeks.
Tourist numbers massively down
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9311869/Third-of-London-hotel-rooms-empty-for-Olympics-as-normal-tourists-stay-away.html
Olympics sponsored by shit: McDonalds - shit foreign food; Heineken - shit foreign beer (all other beers banned, arrests likely for anyone trying to promote/sell them); Coca Cola - shit foreign drink.
The Olympic ideal was supposed to be pure athleticism, competing for nothing more than honour, instead basically we give our country over to a bunch of plutocrats who get their own Zil lanes to whisk them from Mayfair (they couldn't possibly demean themselves to stay in Stratford) to Stratford and around the country to other venues and to a few big corporations who, in return for putting up a tiny fraction of the cost of the Olympics, get to dictate what we can and can't do in our own country. Did we really want this? A militarised city, where the armed forces are there essentially at the behest of a foreign force, namely the IOC?