Posted on 11/21/2014 7:49:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Probably time to forget about the Olympics.
This is common sense?
If they are really serious about "gender equality," they would make men and women compete against each other.
If they want to keep the Olympics going hold them in Greece every four years like the original games. Lord knows Greece could probably use the cash flow.
How about Ferguson, Missouri?????
Next best run was probably Salt Lake City, 2002, which built little new and made good use of existing venues, including world class ski resorts.
Lesson #1 here is that you don't have to spend a fortune if you use what's already available wisely. Lesson #2 is that if you don't already have most of the infrastructure in place or the capability to build it good but cheaply, then you probably shouldn't be hosting an Olympics. Lesson #3 is knowing when to tell all the third world extortionists on the IOC to take a hike.
A bunch of young people waste years of their lives training for events that last 30 seconds, which they compete in in ever-skimpier outfits so billions of people can ogle them on TV, while off-camera the athletes go through several tens of thousands of free condoms.
It’s for “world peace.”
RE: Best run Olympics to date in terms of cost control was Lillehammer, Norway in 1994. They built almost nothing new and used bulldozers to build natural amphitheaters, erected snow fences and planted trees to make natural windbreaks.
Next best run was probably Salt Lake City, 2002, which built little new and made good use of existing venues, including world class ski resorts.
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Here’s a suggestion — make these two sites the PERMANENT rotating venues for the Winter Olympics ( just like they do the Tennis Grand Slams for Wimbledon and the U.S. Open ).
either that or just pic a location and it is always there.
Athens may have been a 2004 boondoggle but they used the money for infrastructure. (roads, metros etc)
If it is always in the same location it ends the pay for hosting BS.
Consider the source. BI is run by a gay.
Antarctica!
After WWII, the modern Olympics became proxy struggles in the Cold War. Nations cared about winning for reasons which had nothing to do with sports.
After the Berlin Wall came down and the USSR imploded, the modern Olympics became glitzy entertainment which failed to satisfy anyone and which quickly became cost-prohibitive.
Time to let it go.
Perhaps the IOC hasn’t figured out that we just don’t care
Good point. The Olympics are interesting, but the huge costs involved in building venues and hosting have caused many nations to drop out of bidding for the games.
Or as you said, we just don’t care. We don’t care enough to pony up billions to host such a spectacle.
Does the host country have to pay for everything?
Why not divvy the costs, and split the profits.
“If they want to keep the Olympics going hold them in Greece every four years like the original games. Lord knows Greece could probably use the cash flow.”
I like the idea of Greece for the summer games. For the winter games I would go with Switzerland or Colorado Springs.
Have each country sending athletes kick in a percentage of the costs.
I think something like this is inevitable.
“Perhaps the IOC hasn’t figured out that we just don’t care.”
You may not care. But somewhere is a little boy firing a rifle and cross country skiing 5 miles a day before school so he can be the best in the world. Or the gymnast, beaten up, everything hurting and sitting in an ice bath because she wants to be the best in the world.
The olympicscost a fortune because it focuses more on our entertainment than it does the athlete. There is an easy way to do it. Each Olympic sport gets its own venue instead of having 10,000 athletes descend on some city for 2 weeks. And no city can build a venue just for a sport. The venue must be already established and in use.
Go back to classical Greek Olympic uniforms. ;) Unfortunately the Greeks only allowed men to compete.
Its just too expensive.
You’re talking about building brand new facilities that will be used only once and then abandoned.
And don’t forget transportation, communication and security upgrades.
All those have to be paid. I mean its a question of price and few countries can afford to host the Olympics anymore.
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