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Big4Country
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http://sports.yahoo.com/news/why-no-one-wants-to-host-the-2022-olympics-225450509.html

LOL! I can't say I blame everyone who doesn't want to host. It's the smart thing to do.

10/1/2014 9:52:31 PM

The E Man
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I'm kind of surprisedd no gulf countries are bidding (for an all indoor event of course).

10/1/2014 10:15:38 PM

Kickstand
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Somebody tell those fuckes in Fayettville about this. Join us for the 2022 Olympics in Fayettville, NC!!

10/1/2014 10:21:27 PM

ncstatetke
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please come back to Salt Lake

10/1/2014 10:21:33 PM

Flyin Ryan
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here's a list of cities previously expected to enter or did enter and have since dropped out

Munich
Oslo
Stockholm
St. Moritz/Davos, Switzerland
Krakow
Lviv, Ukraine

This was pretty much earmarked to be a European games with 2018 being in South Korea and the USOC and Toronto are planning on bidding for 2024 Summer Olympics, and all the Europeans have either declined to enter or did enter and either had a conflict on their doorstep or the voting public was heavily against it. Oslo was pretty much guaranteed to host after Krakow pulled out but the public approval rate of hosting was heavily negative, this in a country that has a lot of pre-existing infrastructure.

NBC must be ecstatic with their time zone for 3 Olympics in a row:

2018 - Pyeongchang, South Korea
2020 - Tokyo, Japan
2022 - Beijing, China or Almaty, Kazakhstan

The IOC deserve a lot of criticism here for allowing the expense of hosting get so out of control and doing nothing about it. Now if only the same could happen to FIFA although I know better.

I'll cheer for Kazakhstan.

[Edited on October 1, 2014 at 11:05 PM. Reason : /]

10/1/2014 10:58:55 PM

JeffreyBSG
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why is it undesirable to host the Winter Olympics? I'm curious.

10/2/2014 12:06:26 AM

Big4Country
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^The cost. You have to spend billions building new facilities just so a bunch of people from around the world can come visit your town and compete in sports that no one really cares about. Then after 2 weeks everyone leaves and a bunch of facilities are left over that don't have much use unless you remodel them, or tear them down.

10/2/2014 12:47:53 AM

The E Man
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Ashville could win this

10/2/2014 7:12:00 AM

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http://news.distractify.com/jake-heppner/haunting-images-of-abandoned-olympic-venues/

Billions upon billions of dollars wasted.

10/2/2014 7:33:23 AM

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It'd probably help a ton if the IOC wasn't a complete pool of douchebags. A sampling of the list of demands from the IOC to Norway:

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"First, the IOC wanted to meet the king prior to the opening ceremony. Next it wanted never-ending drinks payable to the royal family or the Norwegian Olympic Committee.

They also demanded:
Car and drivers for all IOC members.
Diverted and prioritized Olympic traffic
Dedicated Olympic traffic lanes, not to be used by regular people
"IOC members will be received with a smile on arrival at hotel"
Hotel bars must be open “extra late” and can only serve Coca-Cola products
All conference rooms must be kept at exactly 68 degrees
“All furniture should be OL-shaped and have Olympic Appearance”
Finally, the IOC “proposes the closure of schools, and the local people are encouraged to take vacations.”"

10/2/2014 7:34:37 AM

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Quote :
"http://news.distractify.com/jake-heppner/haunting-images-of-abandoned-olympic-venues/"


Convert it into a bmx trials paradise.

10/2/2014 9:56:38 AM

Flyin Ryan
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^^ All international sports execs are assholes. You may know about Sepp Blatter at FIFA, look up Bernie Ecclestone of Formula One and whoever the guy is that runs Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which pretty much uses their checkbook to openly force their way into running the International Cricket Council.

This was after 2020 bidding too that was very lackluster although a lot of that was down to the global recession (and has served to make European governments cost-conscious on hosting 2022 as well). Rome was at the last hurdle preparing to bid and then said "we can't afford this with the state of our economy". Madrid was in the same boat, but bid anyway. There was Istanbul, a perennial also-ran in Summer Olympics bidding, that was one of the 3 final official candidates after some cycles not even making candidate status (i.e. we've deemed your bid too bad to allow you to attempt to bribe and regal us). And so the IOC took Tokyo which a lot of people outside of IOC officialdom thought was a tepid bid as far as Olympic hosts go.

10/2/2014 11:13:31 PM

willembahh
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Why not Vanceboro?

10/2/2014 11:26:37 PM

Big4Country
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^^^^It might a little, but the host city would still have to build a lot of facilities and that costs a lot of money.

10/3/2014 12:39:21 AM

laxman490
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Screw all these small NC towns, let's put this shit in Raqqa, Syria!!!

10/3/2014 1:30:02 AM

Sayer
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Let's troll North Korea and let them host it

10/3/2014 8:51:22 AM

robster
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they should just rotate to the past 4 host sites and make those the hosts going forward on a rotational basis, and just pay for the up keep on the existing venues.

Alternatively, you could just find a way to put them in locations where they would get used regularly ... and stop building the venues in the middle of nowhere... but that would take common sense.

10/3/2014 9:42:13 AM

BobbyDigital
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IOL is just like FIFA in terms of complete disregard for people and corruption in general.

10/3/2014 9:47:46 AM

justinh524
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well if nobody else wants to do it, i guess i will.

10/3/2014 10:49:07 AM

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