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The only issue I remember with the London Olympics was that it didn't bring the promised level of tourists. Apparently the other end of London was a ghost town. Also their opening ceremony was garbage compared to China
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Feb 25, 2016 19:27
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:Spending billions of dollars and making a massive athletics complex that will be abandoned afterwards is only really attractive if you're looking for an opportunity to try and trick the world into thinking that your country isn't a filthy cesspit run by despots. sounds like a good embezzlement opportunity too
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Feb 25, 2016 19:32
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The IOC should just buy Greece and hold the Olympics every year in Athens and make it some big historic thing. The should also make the athletes compete in the nude again.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:34
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WhyteRyce posted:The only issue I remember with the London Olympics was that it didn't bring the promised level of tourists. Apparently the other end of London was a ghost town. Also their opening ceremony was garbage compared to China It's probably pretty hard to get like 50,000 UK citizens to endure slave like conditions for months so they can choreograph a neat show for TV.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:40
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The problem is the IOC's list of demands and the tendency for the host city/country to lose their drat minds. How many Olympic sports actually require involved infrastructure or support? Some dudes need to throw some stuff while others are running around them. Add a hill and a creek and you are pretty much half way there. Wild Orchid gets me rock hard.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:42
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I know Toronto withdrew it's bid once the IOC showed up and basically demanded bribes to even consider them. It's basically illegal to host the Olympics now in most western countries because there are just layers of corruption. It tells you a lot about the countries that do host it. IIRC, the winter olympics is a different organization and isn't as corrupt? Or was that just excuses Vancouver made for itself?
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Feb 25, 2016 19:43
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reallivedinosaur posted:I know Toronto withdrew it's bid once the IOC showed up and basically demanded bribes to even consider them. well the last winter olympics were hosted in a subtropical resort town in Russia soo...
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Feb 25, 2016 19:46
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Johnny Aztec posted:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-la-2024-olympic-bid-public-support-poll-20160223-story.html https://la24.org/vision
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Feb 25, 2016 19:48
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BigBoss posted:It's probably pretty hard to get like 50,000 UK citizens to endure slave like conditions for months so they can choreograph a neat show for TV. True, but going with some movie featuring kids texting and text bubbles popping up on the screen probably wasn't the way to go.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:49
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Mange Mite posted:well the last winter olympics were hosted in a subtropical resort town in Russia soo... The logic I heard it is that a lot of the most corrupt countries don't have winter.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:50
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WhyteRyce posted:True, but going with some movie featuring kids texting and text bubbles popping up on the screen probably wasn't the way to go. It was a refreshing change from that megalomaniacal propaganda horrorshow though
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Feb 25, 2016 19:51
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Mange Mite posted:It was a refreshing change from that megalomaniacal propaganda horrorshow though It should have just been Daniel Craig running around the stadium recreating a Bond movie with Mr. Bean as his side-kick while the Spice Girls sing songs from a parade float that circled the track.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:54
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Peebla posted:You would think the world could do one loving thing together every four years and not have it be a massive disaster. I like how nationalistic it is. USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA 
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Feb 25, 2016 19:55
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what good sports are even in the Summer Olympics, isn't jt poo poo like running and biking and swimming? no fun at all, Winter Olympics 4lyfe, curling 4eva
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Feb 25, 2016 20:00
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I think it was beijing where i saw pictures of the atlanta olympic stadium and i saw the leftovers when i drove thru atlanta in 2010 and yeah dudes that poo poo is straight up foolish. I think Dallas was even bidding for that and wised up before it was too late. Congrats atlanta, London, beijing, russia, rio, on being dumber than Dallas
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Feb 25, 2016 20:05
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sincx posted:LA seems pretty hyped for their 2024 bid. doesn't LA already have all the stadiums they need? that's why it's so easy for them to do it
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Feb 25, 2016 20:08
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London at least gets reuse out of the stadium I thought
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Feb 25, 2016 20:08
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Even West Ham doesn't want to play in Olympic Stadium.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:11
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WhyteRyce posted:London at least gets reuse out of the stadium I thought Japan stores psychic kidneys in theirs.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:17
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gently caress SNEEP posted:doesn't LA already have all the stadiums they need? that's why it's so easy for them to do it they've hosted twice before yeah
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Feb 25, 2016 20:24
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im fairly proud to be living in the only city to straight up reject an offer to host they would have loving destroyed denver
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Feb 25, 2016 20:38
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hemophilia posted:I think it was beijing where i saw pictures of the atlanta olympic stadium and i saw the leftovers when i drove thru atlanta in 2010 and yeah dudes that poo poo is straight up foolish. I think Dallas was even bidding for that and wised up before it was too late. Congrats atlanta, London, beijing, russia, rio, on being dumber than Dallas what leftovers? the stadium became turner field and the olympic village turned into dorms for georgia state and the rest of the facilities were already there and just got renovated. atlanta didn't do too badly all things considered.
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Feb 25, 2016 20:38
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WhyteRyce posted:True, but going with some movie featuring kids texting and text bubbles popping up on the screen probably wasn't the way to go. the "modern era" segment was poo poo but the industrial era, storybook, and mr bean stuff was legitimately good and i liked it a lot better than beijing's, both because the chinese were trying too hard and because it was laughably propagandist
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Feb 25, 2016 20:52
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Another reason the Olympics are lame. http://olympics.nbcsports.com/2016/02/24/mckayla-maroney-retires-gymnastics-olympics/ lame.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:02
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Skinny King Pimp posted:what leftovers? the stadium became turner field and the olympic village turned into dorms for georgia state and the rest of the facilities were already there and just got renovated.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:13
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Maybe we'll see some sweet mutations from all the pollution and in 2020 we can have mutant athletes competing in the Olympics
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Feb 25, 2016 21:29
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BigBoss posted:It's one of the top 5 cities of the world (you can argue the order of spots 2-5, but London would be one of them) Wait what is number one? and don't say new york
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Feb 25, 2016 21:47
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Vulpes posted:Wait what is number one? and don't say new york Pleasant Hill, MO obviously
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Lime Tonics posted:Another reason the Olympics are lame. she also had underage nudes leaked during the fappening
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Vulpes posted:Wait what is number one? and don't say new york Any one who DOESN'T believe New York is the #1 city in the world is delusional. There's no city currently that compares to the importance NYC has on a global scale. London, Tokyo, Berlin, Shanghai, and Paris are all great cities but New York is the undisputed #1.
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Vulpes posted:Wait what is number one? and don't say new york taiwan
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Vulpes posted:Wait what is number one? and don't say new york sorry its new york
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Feb 25, 2016 22:16
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Aw can't they delay it by 4 years so we can have Zika baby wrestling as a new event.
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RatHat posted:Why do they even change the location every time anyway? Wouldn't it make more sense to build a really nice stadium in a convenient place and then reuse it every 4 years? Is the tourism it brings in really that big a deal? Well I think the idea is that since it's a worldwide event, that each country contribute by being a host and showing off their culture or whatever. Of course, this was more viable 100 years ago when it was a much smaller thing and countries didn't spend billions of dollars building poo poo specifically and only to be used for this one thing. Do they even reuse the same buildings / stadiums in cases where a city has hosted more than once? It would probably make more sense to have one big stadium / Olympic village / whatever in one place on each continent (or whatever makes sense based on distance) that can be more easily maintained, and then just rotate through them every time. But then again, it would also make more sense if the IOC were the one paying for this poo poo too.
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Watching the country fail a la Sochi is funny, but I'm just surprised that its still a "thing". In the days before televised professional sports, sure, but it seems obsolete in the 21st century It's a pretty big institution, it's not gonna go splat after only a couple decades. But I agree,
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BigBoss posted:Any one who DOESN'T believe New York is the #1 city in the world is delusional. There's no city currently that compares to the importance NYC has on a global scale. London, Tokyo, Berlin, Shanghai, and Paris are all great cities but New York is the undisputed #1. let me guess, you live in New York OMG JC a Bomb! posted:Spending billions of dollars and making a massive athletics complex that will be abandoned afterwards is only really attractive if you're looking for an opportunity to try and trick the world into thinking that your country isn't a filthy cesspit run by despots. TBF it happens all the time with football stadiums (US ones at least, I don't know if the same thing happens with soccer)
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Feb 25, 2016 22:53
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Los Angeles could reasonably host both Summer & Winter Games. There's plenty of arenas/stadia, and there's mountains within the city limits. Not to mention Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear, and even Mammoth.
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Khazar-khum posted:Los Angeles could reasonably host both Summer & Winter Games. LA is certainly corrupt enough.
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