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Bob Gray said:
I've read that over 40 percent of IOC members are European, so if that's true, then you better be on the good side of the Euros if you ever want an Olympics. Not sure how the Euros would get that many votes, but these international bodies are always rather Byzantine.
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Same way the Euros get most of the power in FIFA. These are organizations created in the late 19th/early 20th centuries when Europe was the world. They ain't giving up power just because Asia and Africa might be rising up.
 
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Kepler said:
That's been true forever, though, and the US has still been well- (over-?) represented in hosting.

The IOC is probably like the NCAA -- they are concerned, in some order of importance, with: money, money and money. The US is still the best dumping ground for all the crap that the Olympics merchandises, up to and including the TV rights. I doubt they want to marginalize that market, and the only way to keep Americans interested in anything is to bring it to them.
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You could be right, but the anti-Americanism now seems to me to be a bit more vehement than in the past. In this particular case, they could get their U.S. money and still deprive the U.S. of the Games, as Rio provides a Western Hemisphere alternative that would put the major events on prime time in the U.S.
 
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joecct said:
It's Rio.

So do they hold it in the North American Summer or the South American summer??

The Olympics during Carnivale, just what the world needs!
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North American summer, but they'll shift it, like they did with Australia, so it's not the dead of winter locally. My guess is mid-September, though Rio might be close enough to the equator that it won't matter either way.
 
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One can hope that NBC and company will at least allow the eye candy center stage.


Mmmmm....Brazilian women.
 
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Hopefully by 2016 the major networks, if not television itself, will be dead and gone, and we'll be able to get something approaching intelligent coverage of the Games via any of hundreds of different streaming options from sources all over the world.
 
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Kepler said:
Hopefully by 2016 the major networks, if not television itself, will be dead and gone, and we'll be able to get something approaching intelligent coverage of the Games via any of hundreds of different streaming options from sources all over the world.
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When my 10' satellite dish (since junked) could get CBC, we never watched the Olympics on US TV. The Canadians cover the sports, not the "gee she cries so well" human interest stories that seem to be on US TV.

Remember NBC blocked every international internet site they could in 2008 that showed Olympic stuff. That did not stop the Chinese nationals here at work from loading a P2P software thingy that enabled them to get Chinese TV and 100% Olympics -- drove our network people nuts.
 
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first thing i thought of when i heard (and saw that pix on espn.com :eek: ) was that it was bush's fault too. ;)

blockski said:
.... be proportional.
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hey, who pays for it?!?!? :p

--this is be fine. the time zones match up for us tv. win win

-though it will be a 'winter' olympic down south ;)
 
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So wonderful to see the wingnuts rejoicing over Chicago not getting chosen for the Olympics.

Nice of them to love America so. :rolleyes:
 
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I confess. Despite all of the well documented problems, I'm still a sucker for the Olympics. I remember the Ivy League swimmer who was all "I'm just here to win a medal and you won't catch me crying," who broke down like a five year old during the anthem. Call me a typical yank, but I like that stuff.

Certainly hockey in '80 has to top the list of American olympic moments, but this one is right at the top of that list. Anybody but me old enough to remember?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nEHaCtqfeM

We'll have great moments in Rio of course, they just would have been better here.
 
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Bob Gray said:
Not sure how the Euros would get that many votes, but these international bodies are always rather Byzantine.
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Europe invented and largely reinvented the olympics. Once something is owned...folks usually just don't give it away to someone else.

And as far as 'antiamericanism' goes...my guess is that it has much more to do with the fact that South America has never had the games than anything else.

Actually I'm surprised there aren't more complaints about the fact that Europe has 3 UN security council members! ;)
 
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The Dream Team killed my interest in the summer games. I root for underdogs, so it was great to root for the US when the Soviets and their bloc were cheating. Then we started cheating too -- screw it.
 
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rufus said:
So wonderful to see the wingnuts rejoicing over Chicago not getting chosen for the Olympics.

Nice of them to love America so. :rolleyes:
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Sure, now we don't have to pay for it... which morally righteous cause shall we go into debt for this time?
 
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