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  • #46
    Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

    I swear, the run up to this year's Olympics reads like the plot from a bad B movie.

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    • #47
      Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

      Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
      Part of the draw of the Olympics is that I can go to Track one day and swimming the next. You can do that in Europe because travel is so much easier there. You aren't going to have swimming in NYC and expect people to hop a plane to Dallas or Phoenix for track. However because it is more compact and the rail system is so advanced that you can easily make most trips around European countries that is a plausible to have multiple cities serve as hosts but you couldn't do that anywhere else.
      Washington DC to NYC is 225 miles and you'd have DC, Baltimore, Philly, Newark (Jersey!?!?!), and NYC facilities available, plus rail, plus airports, plus interstate highways. But you'd have to get them all to work together.
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      • #48
        Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
        But you'd have to get them all to work together.
        Hahahahaha

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        • #49
          Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

          Originally posted by ticapnews View Post
          Hahahahaha
          Exactly.
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          • #50
            Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

            Oh boy!!

            https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...olympic-beach/
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            • #51
              Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

              Originally posted by joecct View Post
              Oh boy!!

              https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...olympic-beach/
              There is not enough money in the world to get me to go to Rio. Or the World Cups in Russia and Qatar. The Olympics in South Korea, you bet!

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              • #52
                Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                Originally posted by joecct View Post
                Oh boy!!

                https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...olympic-beach/
                I didn't even see the link and joked to myself, "What, are bodies washing up now."

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                • #53
                  Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                  Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
                  Washington DC to NYC is 225 miles and you'd have DC, Baltimore, Philly, Newark (Jersey!?!?!), and NYC facilities available, plus rail, plus airports, plus interstate highways. But you'd have to get them all to work together.
                  You could throw in Boston in on that mix as well.
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                  • #54
                    Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                    Originally posted by bigmrg74 View Post
                    You could throw in Boston in on that mix as well.
                    After the last fiasco, I doubt that the USOC and Boston want anything to do with each other.

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                    • #55
                      Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                      Originally posted by CLS View Post
                      After the last fiasco, I doubt that the USOC and Boston want anything to do with each other.
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                      • #56
                        Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                        I think, if Bost0on was one of several cities to host a couple of events, that wouldn't be so bad.

                        My personal belief is they should now look into one location to have it at every four years.

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                        • #57
                          Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                          Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
                          I think, if Bost0on was one of several cities to host a couple of events, that wouldn't be so bad.

                          My personal belief is they should now look into one location to have it at every four years.
                          I think a 20 year rotation could work. Select one site on each continent that has shown it has the infrastructure to make it work (i.e. no Africa or South America).

                          Summer could be: LA, London, Beijing, Sydney.

                          Winter is a little more difficult. Australia gets dropped, and no one in Europe appears to want to host the Winter Olympics anymore. So possibly Vancouver, Salt Lake, Beijing and Norway/Switzerland/somewhere in Europe that would probably bid if it meant a semi-permanent event?
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                          • #58
                            Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                            Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
                            I think a 20 year rotation could work. Select one site on each continent that has shown it has the infrastructure to make it work (i.e. no Africa or South America).

                            Summer could be: LA, London, Beijing, Sydney.

                            Winter is a little more difficult. Australia gets dropped, and no one in Europe appears to want to host the Winter Olympics anymore. So possibly Vancouver, Salt Lake, Beijing and Norway/Switzerland/somewhere in Europe that would probably bid if it meant a semi-permanent event?
                            If it's a 20 year rotation, and you're dropping S. America and Africa, then you've just added Antarctica. The games there would be tough on the infrastructure designers.
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                            • #59
                              Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                              Originally posted by St. Clown View Post
                              If it's a 20 year rotation, and you're dropping S. America and Africa, then you've just added Antarctica. The games there would be tough on the infrastructure designers.
                              Well, the Olympics and math never really mixed anyway.

                              Let's scale that back to a 16 year rotation.
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                              • #60
                                Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

                                Summer: Olympia, Greece / Delhi, India / Los Angeles, USA / Cape Town, South Africa
                                Winter: Chamonix, France / Sapporo, Japan / Vancouver, Canada / Beijing, China
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