The 2010 Drag Queen Olympics in Amsterdam have been cancelled at the last minute, and moved to the Spanish capital, Madrid.  A devastated Miss Jennifer Hopelezz, who was behind the Dutch bid to hold the Games for the seventh time in Amsterdam, explains.

"We were having a lot of problems with the finances ans organization here due to the global financial crisis.  And then our main sponsor BP pulled out with some weak excuse about an oil leak or something like that in Mexico. Frankly speaking I didn't really buy it, I mean seriously how big a problem could that be? In any case, the Spanish saw their chance and swooped, literally in the last minutes of negotiations, and took the Games to Madrid."

As a consolation for their Dutch fans, the Drag kings of Amsterdam have invited the girls to attend the drag King Betty contest, Wednesday 4th August from 08.30 onwards on the Reguliersdwarsstraat.