Genuinely unexpected, and truly brilliant!

Lets hope it can help regenerate the infrastructure in some of the neediest parts of the capital, as opposed to just representing a huge windfall for property speculators.

Also, given our somewhat dodgy experience with this, hopefully we'll have learned some important lessons.

According to the Reuters story on how the voting went round-by-round, it looks like it was the re-allocated votes after New York was eliminated that sealed it for London. The votes when Madrid dropped out were split between us and Paris.

And there's always the, er, beach volleyball on Horse Guards to look forward to...