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RE: Olympics pricing itself out
(02-22-2017 07:16 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: The Olympic park in Sydney (Homebush) is an incredible facility that seldom gets used. That's about par for the course.
The Olympics should be rotated among places that have the necessary facilities--London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, maybe Lisbon, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Phoenix, Denver, St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Atlanta, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Durban, Johannesburg, that's about it. I'm probably omitting a couple, and there are probably a couple on the list who wouldn't make it. From that list, maybe pick two cities per continent and rotate it. Or maybe do like FIFA and IRB, pick a host country and let it spread the sites out around the country. UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, maybe Portugal, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, China, Japan.
Do the same for winter games. USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, maybe Chile although the timing would be different.
For the record, there's no way St. Louis and Kansas City have the necessary infrastructure in place to host the games, and this is me speaking as a native Missourian. But like you said, that list is fluid
I agree with the 'swap between a few regions' or multi-city approaches in general. Wouldn't be opposed to the Greece approach based on their history and because it'd help them out, but I don't think they'll be stable enough to host the games again. The only long-term solution imo is scaling down the games to being a bare bones event. I'm talking about using almost exclusively pre-existing facilities, empty summer dorms for athletes, nearly non-existing opening and closing ceremonies, and making any new venues as non-lavish as possible to contain costs. Use PPPs to be more efficient, but have local governments set up a 'Truman Commission' of sorts to prevent waste. But the IOC wouldn't be able to grease their pockets and elite athletes wouldn't like staying in a 300 sq ft dorm room, so that'd never happen.
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