2001mark Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 A few thoughts...- the 20th century was a breakout century for globalization... 21st century, we've seen & been to most places around the world, there really aren't a lot of potential hosts that have yet to make their mark. Beijing might've been the last of that era, for a while anyways until developing locales are ready.- IOC has blown up the games to ridiculous proportions; citizens & local gov'ts simply don't want their cities gridlocked for 18 days, let alone the billions it costs for years of construction & upkeep.- Winter Olympics are kindof a bitch to hold. Quebec City would hold them tomorrow if they could, only they'd need to have downhill skiing events in Vermont because IOC regulations on hill size.So yeah... withholding a perfectly great city from hosting because god forbid the skiiers aren't competing in the same metro area.I think we may see a day, for a while anyways, where the IOC attempts a dozen or so permanent hosts around the world. Let's face it, infrastructure & venues aren't crumbling nearly as quickly as they used to. No need to keep forcing trillion dollar deficits on countries for these Coke commerical games. @2001mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njmeadowlanders Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 What, is Wichita not IOC material? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian in Boston Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Beijing, China has beaten out Almaty, Kazakhstan to serve as the host for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. It becomes the first city to host both a summer and winter edition of the Olympic Games.The 2022 Olympic Winter Games will be the third consecutive Olympics staged in Asia, following the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea and the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, Japan. The last continent to host three consecutive Olympic Games was Europe: the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France; the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain; and the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 And why was the choice between Almalty and Beijing? Because only Asian dictatorships want to pay to host the stupid things nowadays. IOC's screwed if it ever runs out of those. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bosrs1 Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 And why was the choice between Almalty and Beijing?Because only Asian dictatorships want to pay to host the stupid things nowadays.IOC's screwed if it ever runs out of those.Yep. It has seemingly hit the Winter Olympics first, but eventually this is going to hit the Summer games as well. (And hell if FIFA doesn't start cleaning up its act eventually their vaunted World Cup will start to suffer as well). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001mark Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Good news everyone... Sepp Blatter is stepping down as a member of the IOC.lols... I honestly thought his IOC membership a meme joke, turns out it was a real thing. @2001mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 As far as I'm concerned, Pyeongchang will be the Winter Olympics' last hurrah. Perhaps it's just as well that the NHL no longer wants to let its players compete (though it's too bad they're putting forth such a lame substitute).A few thoughts...- the 20th century was a breakout century for globalization... 21st century, we've seen & been to most places around the world, there really aren't a lot of potential hosts that have yet to make their mark. Beijing might've been the last of that era, for a while anyways until developing locales are ready.- IOC has blown up the games to ridiculous proportions; citizens & local gov'ts simply don't want their cities gridlocked for 18 days, let alone the billions it costs for years of construction & upkeep.- Winter Olympics are kindof a bitch to hold. Quebec City would hold them tomorrow if they could, only they'd need to have downhill skiing events in Vermont because IOC regulations on hill size.So yeah... withholding a perfectly great city from hosting because god forbid the skiiers aren't competing in the same metro area.I think we may see a day, for a while anyways, where the IOC attempts a dozen or so permanent hosts around the world. Let's face it, infrastructure & venues aren't crumbling nearly as quickly as they used to. No need to keep forcing trillion dollar deficits on countries for these Coke commerical games.Even with permanent Olympic sites, the host nations would have to spend significant amounts of money in between Games maintaining the sites, not to mention upgrading them to keep up with (1) technological advances in any number of areas that would impact the Games, and (2) ever-changing security threats. The latter alone has been responsible for a huge chunk of ballooning Olympic budgets in recent years.Instead of asking one nation after another to take on a multi-billion-dollar boondoggle for one time only as the IOC does now, adopting a permanent site would, in essence, be asking a single nation to take on said multi-billion-dollar boondoggle followed by a never-ending string of lesser, but still likely multi-billion-dollar boondoggles every four years - or at least that's how it's likely to be perceived and portrayed by the inevitable opposition within any prospective host nation. Imagine the Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes fiasco on the scale of an entire nation, and you start to get the picture.All that considered, I can't imagine very many cities or nations that aren't already willing to be a one-time Olympic host would be willing to host the Games on a permanent basis, so we could well end up being stuck with someplace like China or Russia as the permanent host, which would defeat one of the major purposes of having a permanent host in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninersdd Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 Some US rowers have become ill thanks to the bad water in Rio. http://news.yahoo.com/us-rowers-fall-ill-2016-olympics-test-event-192100380--spt.html BEAR DOWN ARIZONA!2013/14 Tanks Picks Champion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001mark Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Los Angeles unveils $4.5 billion bid. Coliseum reno part for the primary stadium. Nothing to do with the NFL btw. @2001mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertsports Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 It's really hard to say. They say that we live in a global and connected world. But when you see how much that globalization has failed in just about every way possible. We can connect to someone half way around the world, but somehow we are not as connected with the people around us in our own neighborhoods.Olympics in recent years: Athens, Shanghai, Sochi, and Rio De Janeiro. Something is definitely wrong with the Olympic committee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001mark Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Olympics in recent years: Athens, Shanghai, Sochi, and Rio De Janeiro. Something is definitely wrong with the Olympic committee. Those are mostly fine with me.Shanghai never hosted. Beijing. @2001mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001mark Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I want Toronto to bid... on the cheap. Call the IOC on their word, put their monies where their mouths are.Award them to Toronto for an awesome frugal sports party... or prop up another gazillion dollar enterprise rewarding Los Angeles. @2001mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertsports Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Olympics in recent years: Athens, Shanghai, Sochi, and Rio De Janeiro. Something is definitely wrong with the Olympic committee. Those are mostly fine with me.Shanghai never hosted. Beijing.Yes because finacial disaters, legal prosatution, abject proverty, huge smog clodes, ruthless dictators, and the future USSR is such a good thing. Shanghai, Beijing, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rams80 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Olympics in recent years: Athens, Shanghai, Sochi, and Rio De Janeiro. Something is definitely wrong with the Olympic committee.Those are mostly fine with me. Shanghai never hosted. Beijing.Yes because finacial disaters, legal prosatution, abject proverty, huge smog clodes, ruthless dictators, and the future USSR is such a good thing. Shanghai, Beijing, whatever. One would think high schools in the Chicago suburbs would have newer textbooks than that. On 8/1/2010 at 4:01 PM, winters in buffalo said: You manage to balance agitation with just enough salient points to keep things interesting. Kind of a low-rent DG_Now. On 1/2/2011 at 9:07 PM, Sodboy13 said: Today, we are all otaku. "The city of Peoria was once the site of the largest distillery in the world and later became the site for mass production of penicillin. So it is safe to assume that present-day Peorians are descended from syphilitic boozehounds."-Stephen Colbert POTD: February 15, 2010, June 20, 2010 The Glorious Bloom State Penguins (NCFAF) 2014: 2-9, 2015: 7-5 (L Pineapple Bowl), 2016: 1-0 (NCFAB) 2014-15: 10-8, 2015-16: 14-5 (SMC Champs, L 1st Round February Frenzy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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