What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

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

There's no point in changing the format, like holding it in different cities. They just need to accept that they aren't going to get all new facilities. Just go back to a Salt Lake City, or go back to Sydney, those cities have hosted in the recent past, they have almost all of the facilities needed. Hell, start bidding it out in 2 games packs, the return trip makes it more economically feasible to build a new facility. Say, you get 2020, and 2036 in a pack, so they're not back to back.
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

cF[Authentic] said:
If the games were held in 5 cities in France, would anyone notice it's not "one big event?"
Click to expand...

You mean, something like the current European soccer championships in France, or the current Copa America Centenario in the US? You mean like those "one big event" hosted in multiple cities? or the World Cup of soccer?
 
cF[Authentic] said:
If the games were held in 5 cities in France, would anyone notice it's not "one big event?" Space it out evenly, have TV coverage just like there is now and nobody will know the difference. Even if it's in the US, have Denver and Salt Lake City co-host the winter olympics. You have more than enough current venues for everything, outside of adequate housing for athletes in Denver.
Click to expand...

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.
 
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.

@nytimes: Breaking News: The lab handling drug testing for the Rio Olympics has been suspended by world anti-doping officials http://nyti.ms/28SD0fh
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

ticapnews said:
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.
Click to expand...

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.
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

The Sicatoka said:
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.
Click to expand...

You could throw in Boston in on that mix as well.
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

CLS said:
After the last fiasco, I doubt that the USOC and Boston want anything to do with each other.
Click to expand...

It's a marriage made in heaven. The most corrupt organization meets the most corrupt municipality.
 
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.
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

Scarlet said:
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.
Click to expand...

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?
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

Spartanforlife4 said:
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?
Click to expand...
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.
 
Re: 2016 Summer Olympics - Ready or not, here we come!!

St. Clown said:
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.
Click to expand...

Well, the Olympics and math never really mixed anyway. :p

Let's scale that back to a 16 year rotation.
 
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
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top