Washington, DC 2024, anyone?

[Joke Insurance]

If the region boosts up VRE, MARC, Metrorail, local buses, builds streetcars and light rail, then let them have it. I am from the DC area and we sure need all of those.

[BrySmalls]

No.

[4_tattoos]

I've heard that Dan Snyder & Ted Leonsis are on board with this happening ($$$$$). Pretty sure anybody that owns a restaurant or hotel in the area is going to be on board too.

[Evil G]

I think Los Angeles would be a great host. Farmers Field, Staples Center, Ed Roski's stadium if it ever gets built, the Rose Bowl, StubHub Center, Dodger Stadium, and the Honda Center just to name a few.

[Eye]

I've heard that Dan Snyder & Ted Leonsis are on board with this happening ($$$$$). Pretty sure anybody that owns a restaurant or hotel in the area is going to be on board too.

I wouldn't be, if I'm not any of the above. I want my taxes going toward something worthwhile.

[dfwabel]

I've heard that Dan Snyder & Ted Leonsis are on board with this happening ($$$$$). Pretty sure anybody that owns a restaurant or hotel in the area is going to be on board too.

Will a today's restaurateur actually have a place in 2024?

And if they did have a place in 2024, would they have enough staff since many will rent out their places for two weeks to make more cash?

Dan Snyder and Ted Leonsis, oooh big deal.

Chicago had the current president and a long term, top IOC sponsor in McDonalds in their backyard and still lost out to Rio.

[tohasbo]

Washington-Baltimore should be eliminated for just traffic problems they have NOW!

That and the never-ending issues the Metrorail system has. The transit agency is terrible and insanely expensive. One of the most expensive in the country.

[The_Admiral]

Will a today's restaurateur actually have a place in 2024?

I present this to you as a more cogent question than it might at first appear, a kind of koan of the period.

[rams80]

I've heard that Dan Snyder & Ted Leonsis are on board with this happening ($$$$$). Pretty sure anybody that owns a restaurant or hotel in the area is going to be on board too.

Will a today's restaurateur actually have a place in 2024?

And if they did have a place in 2024, would they have enough staff since many will rent out their places for two weeks to make more cash?

Dan Snyder and Ted Leonsis, oooh big deal.

Chicago had the current president and a long term, top IOC sponsor in McDonalds in their backyard and still lost out to Rio.

That's because USOC picked that exact moment to get into a pissing match over TV rights. You can't spit in the cartel's eye like that.

[dbadefense1990]

An Olympics...in Indianapolis.

That's both hysterically funny and downright frightening at the same time.

Many had doubts about Indianapolis hosting Super Bowl XLVI, and that went off marvelously and fluidly, with the league's desirability of seeing the city host the game again being very high.

Besides, they can't do any worse than Atlanta, who had hosting duties before and it was highly criticized for all the commercialism done to promote the games (Coca-Cola, McDonald's). It was the only time the IOC President, at the closing ceremonies, didn't call the event, "the best Olympics ever," which he calls every Olympic games at those respective ceremonies.

[DG_ThenNowForever]

An Olympics...in Indianapolis.

That's both hysterically funny and downright frightening at the same time.

Many had doubts about Indianapolis hosting Super Bowl XLVI, and that went off marvelously and fluidly, with the league's desirability of seeing the city host the game again being very high.

Besides, they can't do any worse than Atlanta, who had hosting duties before and it was highly criticized for all the commercialism done to promote the games (Coca-Cola, McDonald's). It was the only time the IOC President, at the closing ceremonies, didn't call the event, "the best Olympics ever," which he calls every Olympic games at those respective ceremonies.

You might say the Atlanta Olympics...bombed!

[rams80]

An Olympics...in Indianapolis.

That's both hysterically funny and downright frightening at the same time.

Many had doubts about Indianapolis hosting Super Bowl XLVI, and that went off marvelously and fluidly, with the league's desirability of seeing the city host the game again being very high.

Besides, they can't do any worse than Atlanta, who had hosting duties before and it was highly criticized for all the commercialism done to promote the games (Coca-Cola, McDonald's). It was the only time the IOC President, at the closing ceremonies, didn't call the event, "the best Olympics ever," which he calls every Olympic games at those respective ceremonies.

The IOC wasn't upset about the commercialization of the Atlanta Games. They were upset about the size of their cut.

[Brian in Boston]

Off the top of my head, the only Winter cities I can think of (and, admittedly, I'm not a wizard when it comes to remembering what years what cities hosted the event) that could possibly pull off a Summer games would be Munich, Calgary, and Vancouver.

Munich has never hosted the Winter Olympics. In point of fact, the city hosted the 1972 Summer Olympic Games. That said, Munich was a final candidate to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and a referendum has been set for November in which city residents will make their voices heard on the issue of whether or not the municipality should bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

[Kramerica Industries]

Oh dammit. It was another resort town, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which is also in Bavaria. Not sure why I automatically linked Munich to the '36 Winter Games like that.

But that really just furthers my point that Summer and Winter locales' cannot be compared. The correction is appreciated.

[Don]

No.

This. I dont live in the Metro area, about an hr south and it would be a giant cluster F of epic proportions. I cant imagine the security, road closures, traffic backups...it makes me shudder. The Beltway cant handle federal workers getting off at the same time for :censored:'s sake.

[Epiphanic]

Dan Snyder is pro-Olympics because it would mean an essentially free stadium for the football team. The "Olympic Stadium" would presumably be built where RFK Stadium currently stands and the lease for FedEx field expires in 2026. Oh look, that's just two years to retro-fit this fancy new stadium for NFL football.

An Olympics in DC would be a disaster. It would be nice of it meant that the Metro would get the upgrade and maintenance that it so desperately needs, but WMATA is so poorly run that it would be completely wasted anyway.

It's incredibly unlikely that DC would get the Games. First, I doubt that the USOC would pick DC as its bid for the 2024 Games. And second, I doubt that the IOC would pick them if they somehow got that far. Besdies, it wouldn't be even announced until 2017 leaving DC just 7 short years to get it's poop in a group and that's not gonna happen.

[WizKid]

If the region boosts up VRE, MARC, Metrorail, local buses, builds streetcars and light rail, then let them have it. I am from the DC area and we sure need all of those.

Agreed.

[DS729]

If I were giving it to an American city it would have too be NY.

[Lee.]

An Olympics...in Indianapolis.

That's both hysterically funny and downright frightening at the same time.

Many had doubts about Indianapolis hosting Super Bowl XLVI, and that went off marvelously and fluidly, with the league's desirability of seeing the city host the game again being very high.

Besides, they can't do any worse than Atlanta, who had hosting duties before and it was highly criticized for all the commercialism done to promote the games (Coca-Cola, McDonald's). It was the only time the IOC President, at the closing ceremonies, didn't call the event, "the best Olympics ever," which he calls every Olympic games at those respective ceremonies.

You might say the Atlanta Olympics...bombed!

TOO SOON

[Magnus]

Off the top of my head, the only Winter cities I can think of that could possibly pull off a Summer games would be Calgary and Vancouver. It's probably a stretch to include Calgary in there, but the rest of the Winter cities I can think of are the likes of the two you mentioned, Innsbruck, Nagano, Lake Placid, Salt Lake City, etc., essentially, resorts.

Stockholm hosted the 1912 Summer Games and the 1956 equestrian portion of the Summer Games. Helsinki hosted the 1952 Summer Games. Ah, those crazy Nordic countries, eh?