Chicago has been selected to host the drive by shooting event.
Why would any city want to host that boondoggle?
Boston? Kraft was told to keep his stadium in Foxboro. The Red Sox couldn’t even get property around Fenway to expand. Which neighborhoods are going to be bulldozed for a 100,000 seat stadium and the Olympic Village?
All four cities have a lot of the expensive sport infrastructures (i.e. stadiums and arenas) in place. I’m sure the official plan will utilize existing college basketball arenas and football stadiums, city’s convention center, and locations in the region for venues.
Los Angeles has the old Olympic Coliseum—it just needs a track put back in. San Francisco has Stanford Stadium for its track—but I’ll bet the IOC will demand a brand-new track stadium in the city instead of a perfectly-good football stadium in the suburbs.
I don’t think an existing football-only stadium could be converted into a Europe-style track-and-field stadium very easily based on the size of the available playing surface. Picture your old high school’s football field/track. Does your NFL or college team’s stadium have enough space beyond the endzones for the track’s curves?
I’m not sure who the U.S.O.C would pick, but I think Los Angeles would have the best odds from the I.O.C. for one reason—the centerpiece track-and-field stadium. Each of the three other cities already has a relatively-new football stadium, and the cities won’t be looking to spend money to build a new stadium that could be converted into a football stadium that they don’t need. Los Angeles has an existing stadium that has hosted the Olympics twice and would only need a track installed, or the desire to build a new stadium that could be converted to a football stadium to bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles.
LA has world class facilities, held the Olympics in 1984 with excellence.
In 1984 I rode bikes with my younger brother to Mission Viejo, to watch an Olympic cycling event. Was pretty cool.
i was in LA the final week of the ‘84 Games...Olympics were great but the city was garbage...
Between the expense of illegals and that every city that’s ever hosted the games loses money, LA just put itself on the fast track to financial ruin.
Great news for Dallas.
by 2024 it will be owned by mexico with the blessing of the democrap party and RINOs
Are they going to allow gangbangers to enter the shooting events?
Might as well add drug-smuggling, drug-selling, and organized gang rapes to the events.
LA = Los Assholes