Posted on 07/29/2015 6:52:54 AM PDT by C19fan
The reason Boston’s residents didn’t want to be Athens is the same reason the residents of Oslo or Krakow or Stockholm don’t want to be Athens. Hosting an Olympics is a corporate sinkhole sucking billions of dollars and a city’s future into a bottomless abyss of excess.
The internet is clogged with slide shows of empty, broken, useless stadiums built in the euphoria of a coming Olympics or World Cup then abandoned soon after, allowed to fill with weeds, rodents and other signs of human escape. Is there a better sign of Greece’s collapse than a pile of useless sports facilities crumbling since the torch went out in the summer of 2004? What use did Athens have for a baseball stadium anyway? It’s crumbling among the weeds just like the field hockey venue, the canoeing center and the training pool green with algae.
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Ugh. So true.
Or, how about our favorite demoRATS holding targets for 1,000 yard Barrett 50 caliber rifle shoot. That’s an Olympic event I’d pay to watch.
You got that right.
This is 2015. To hell with TV coverage. Have each event have its own Internet live-stream. Archive the live-streams on the Olympics site (or on youtube). TV networks can broadcast the streams adding their commentary, or people can just watch them directly.
now that is just crazy enough to work! They could use existing facilities as well...
I know we can call it “The Hunger Games”...bet no one thought of that one.
What’s funny is that a significant percentage of athletes from other countries actually do live and train in the US.
The real solution is just have a permanent Olympics site and that should be Athens. Great climate and the original place of the Olympics.
Would be great for them as they can plan these events and the tourism industry would help them financially.
Yeah, thats another thing that bugs me - althetes who not only train here but LIVE here, and compete for the country of their birth.
That’s why i say instead of tracking medals by country they should do it by US University attended. I believe if they did that for the last Games, the University of Florida would have won the medal count. I know UF got about 40 medals overall.
Or having Bob Costas lecture us on gun control or other such sports related personal opinions.
But the Oprahized women love that stuff. Screw sports who cares about that when there is a Lifetime movie available?
[Now that is just crazy enough to work!They could use existing facilities as well...]
It’s a win win. The events would be not be in the same community or country. Local economies would prosper because the Olympic events would be scattered. Plus, the security would be tighter.
Trump could turn it into a money maker although sports excellence doesn’t equate to political strength anymore....probably because it is un PC.
Wimpification of the world.
That's interesting. Salt Lake used the University of Utah's stadium as the host venue. Maybe it's different between winter and summer games.
Heck, there are plenty of High School Football stadiums they could use.
After the Cold War ended so to did my interest in the Olympics.
Hunger Games.
Watch the Canadian coverage instead in 2016. Olympic broadcasting is one of the few things CBC TV does well. When CTV has the rights, they do it just as well too.
Sure, they focus on Canadian competitors, but at least they give fair coverage to the rest of the world.
Both are certainly superior to NBC.
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