Retromaniac Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC97 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I think this was done recently... unless I'm on crack --- Chris Creamer Founder/Editor, SportsLogos.Net "The Mothership" • News • Facebook • X/Twitter • Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notch Novelty Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I think Barcelona had the '92 Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC97 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I think Barcelona had the '92 Games "last Olympics" refers to nation --- Chris Creamer Founder/Editor, SportsLogos.Net "The Mothership" • News • Facebook • X/Twitter • Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retromaniac Posted August 31, 2004 Author Share Posted August 31, 2004 This is an updated version that includes Moscow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retromaniac Posted August 31, 2004 Author Share Posted August 31, 2004 I picked London because it will be the summer games by then and Britain has gone for over half a century without an Olympics and I believe it is time for them to host the Olympics. Russia will have gone for a quarter of a century by next year, but they are more of a winter games country in my opinion. France and Spain will have gone for twenty years by then, but they can wait. The United States just had one, so they can definitely wait. By then, they will have the status that France and Spain have today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabet Man Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 do you refer the winter olympics as being that important to summer olympics?you've said NYC and the USA having had it in 2002, this is summer not winter games so it should read 'NYC (last games: 1996) cos' imo winter games don't count and aren't as important cos' i don't bother getting up or staying up til midnight to see the games (maybe opening i would) twitter.com/thebrainofMatt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC97 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 do you refer the winter olympics as being that important to summer olympics?you've said NYC and the USA having had it in 2002, this is summer not winter games so it should read 'NYC (last games: 1996) cos' imo winter games don't count and aren't as important cos' i don't bother getting up or staying up til midnight to see the games (maybe opening i would) That's only your opinion... the IOC sees it differently.This is why Toronto didn't bother bidding for 2012, even tho they were runner-up in 2008... Vancouver got Winter in 2010. --- Chris Creamer Founder/Editor, SportsLogos.Net "The Mothership" • News • Facebook • X/Twitter • Instagram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Gotta be a home teamer here!! paris is still the big favourite to win, but I'd love to see a London Olympics. One day, one day!! 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjrbaseball Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Originally, when the Winter Games were started (and held in the same year as the Summer Olympics), the idea was to have them in the same country as the Summer Games whenever possible.1924 - Paris / Chamonix (France)1928 - Amsterdam (Netherlands) / St. Moritz (Switzerland) [no mountains in Netherlands, I guess] 1932 - Los Angeles / Lake Placid (USA)1936 - Berlin / Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany)After World War II, they apparently gave up on that plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillyfan36 Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 london - we dont need to bother - the olympics are such a hassle, why wopuld we do it? give it to oondon - because they still speak english and its not hereDON'T GIVE IT TO FRANCE OR RUSSIA, PLEASE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcgd Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Althought I'd be cool to see the Olympics in such a Huge City (NY), many venues directly downtown, give it to London. 1980, 1984, 1996, 2002. (Plus '88 in calgary (right?) which isn't the U.S. but its North America) We can wait a few more years. Now that I look at that, since I've been born, the longest stretch of the olympics not being in North America has been 8 years, 1988-1996. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stimpy Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 London no doubt. There is no reason to have it in America again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmee Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Olympiads (by my count) Held in North America1904: St. Louis (USA- Summer)1932: Los Angeles (USA- SUmmer)1960: Squaw Valley (USA- Winter)1968: Mexico City (MEX- Summer)1976: Montreal (CAN- Summer?)1980: Lake Placid (USA- Winter)1984: Los Angeles (USA- Summer)1988: Calgary (CAN- Winter)1996: Atlanta (USA- Summer)2002: Salt Lake City (USA- Winter)2010: Vancouver (CAN- Winter)2012: New York City (USA- Summer)Edited to reflect addition of CalgaryAs you can see by the timeline, 2012 would NOT be "somebody else's turn." In fact, by then, the United States, and North America as a whole, would be long overdue for an Olympics. And it's not American greed that gets the Olympics hosted here over and over again, it's the ability of our nation(s) to reliably put together the funding and facilities rquired to host such a momentous event. North America is the most reliable continent they've got when it comes to putting together the games, which is why they keep coming back.Of course, New York's not going to win, but how could I vote against having the real, true, nobody's mind games Olympics just half an hour from my home? To see the games in person? That would be magical. The world's foremost practitioners of professional tag-team wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkrdevil Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Althought I'd be cool to see the Olympics in such a Huge City (NY), many venues directly downtown, give it to London. 1980, 1984, 1996, 2002. (Plus '88 in calgary (right?) which isn't the U.S. but its North America) We can wait a few more years. Now that I look at that, since I've been born, the longest stretch of the olympics not being in North America has been 8 years, 1988-1996. Well, the only venue in Manhattan would be MSG. The rest is spread out in queens, the bronx (the baseball is supposed to be in Yankee Stadium, or Yankee Stadium III if that is built in time), long island and New Jersey.That's part of the problem with New York everything is spread out and it takes time to get from venue to venue added to the fact that most of the venues need to built and nothing gets built in New York. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshawaggie Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 London no doubt, they've waited long enough. @josh_j12 CFA- Fargo Bobcats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmee Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Well, the only venue in Manhattan would be MSG. The rest is spread out in queens, the bronx (the baseball is supposed to be in Yankee Stadium, or Yankee Stadium III if that is built in time), long island and New Jersey. Wrong, I believe. Everyone who lives near New York knows that the Jets are going to get the West Side Stadium built, whether or not we get the Olympics. That stadium's going to be built on Manhattan Island. That's two venues. Also, you make the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens sound as if they're not part of New York City. While New Jersey and Long Island certainly aren't, those three definitely are. The world's foremost practitioners of professional tag-team wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_cynic Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Screw NYC! Utah Jazz Retired Number's#1 - Frank Layden - #7 Pete Maravich - #12 John Stockton - #14 Jeff Hornacek - #35 Darrell Griffith - #53 Mark EatonRetired Number's To Come#00 The Bear (Best Mascot In NBA) - #4 Adrian Dantley - #32 Karl "The Mailman" Malone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habsfannova Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 I''m going for Paris...but London would be VERY nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted August 31, 2004 Share Posted August 31, 2004 Damn, I want it to be Rio. I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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