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RE: Olympics pricing itself out
Why spend so much money on something that does not bring a positive impact to a massive amount of your community?
02-23-2017 04:13 PM
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Just have the games in Greece every year and be done with it.
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(02-23-2017 04:15 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Just have the games in Greece every year and be done with it.

I agree. Two birds with one stone: help Greece and standardize the Olympic village as one permanent location.

Can Greece do winter games?
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RE: Olympics pricing itself out
Paris, huh?

What, were Mosul, Molenbeek, and Malmo unavailable?
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(02-23-2017 03:20 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  
(02-22-2017 11:00 PM)banker Wrote:  I saw a news story today, will try to find it, about how the facilities in Rio are already falling down, vandalized and, in the case of the ones that aren't already useless, are just sitting there. Only the golf course is being used.

Rio also put themselves billions in debt just to host the thing. Plus they made the double stupid decision to host a World Cup 2 years earlier.

IOC is going to have to change its approach to choosing a location in the future, because more and more places are realizing how costly it is to host. At the current rate, we'll be welcomed to a future Summer Olympics in the beautiful UAE, where every facility was built with the best slave labor imaginable.

That's where we are with the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
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(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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(02-23-2017 04:23 PM)hoopfan Wrote:  
(02-23-2017 04:15 PM)VA49er Wrote:  Just have the games in Greece every year and be done with it.

I agree. Two birds with one stone: help Greece and standardize the Olympic village as one permanent location.

Can Greece do winter games?

I believe northern Greece gets plenty of snow.
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(02-25-2017 11:14 AM)Love and Honor Wrote:  
(02-23-2017 03:20 AM)chiefsfan Wrote:  
(02-22-2017 11:00 PM)banker Wrote:  I saw a news story today, will try to find it, about how the facilities in Rio are already falling down, vandalized and, in the case of the ones that aren't already useless, are just sitting there. Only the golf course is being used.

Rio also put themselves billions in debt just to host the thing. Plus they made the double stupid decision to host a World Cup 2 years earlier.

IOC is going to have to change its approach to choosing a location in the future, because more and more places are realizing how costly it is to host. At the current rate, we'll be welcomed to a future Summer Olympics in the beautiful UAE, where every facility was built with the best slave labor imaginable.

That's where we are with the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Yep, only corruption can explain holding a summer even in friggin' Qatar. I mean, they don't even serve alcohol there.
02-25-2017 04:52 PM
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