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IOC delays selection of 2030 Winter Olympics host after climate change and sustainability discussions (only 8.13 years left)
See BS Sports ^ | 12/06/22 | Isabel Gonzalez

Posted on 12/07/2022 3:58:56 PM PST by Libloather

The International Olympic Committee is delaying the selection of the 2030 Winter Olympics host city after discussing climate change and sustainability during its executive board meeting on Tuesday. The 2030 host city was originally scheduled to be announced after the 2023 IOC session.

The executive board is giving the Future Host Commission more time to look at the preliminary results of academic research that shows a potential reduction in the number of climate-reliable hosts. A proposal to ensure climate reliability would require hosts to show average minimum temperatures of below zero degrees for snow competition venues during the Winter Games over a 10-year period. Another idea discussed was the rotation of the Olympic Winter Games within a pool of hosts.

During Tuesday's meeting, there was also a discussion about a double award for 2030 and 2034 to create stability for winter sports and the Olympic Winter Games. However, the IOC said this needs more exploration as no conclusion was reached.

With the extra time, the future host commission is also expected to consult with other interested parties, international federations, athletes, winter sports industry experts, and the International Paralympic Committee.

"The new, flexible approach to electing Olympic hosts was designed so the IOC could respond swiftly and effectively to ever-changing global circumstances, for the benefit of the athletes, all Olympic Games participants, and the whole sports movement," IOC member Octavian Morariu said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Sports
KEYWORDS: climatechange; con; fake; fraud; globalwarming; ioc; loot; olympics; scam; winter; winterolympics
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To: Libloather

Mars should be good.


21 posted on 12/07/2022 4:29:06 PM PST by dblshot
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To: Libloather
the 2030 Winter Olympics host city after discussing climate change and sustainability during its executive board meeting on Tuesday

Well if that’s one of the conditions then it should be the Zoom Olympics. No need to move 7 to 8 million people around the planet!

22 posted on 12/07/2022 4:29:22 PM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Libloather

Oh, pick somewhere in the Arctic and be done with it. How about Svalbard, Norway?


23 posted on 12/07/2022 4:31:33 PM PST by Allegra
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Nah, take the Winter Olympics back to Squaw Valley.

Interesting name. Ha. I didn't know about the Olympics. Read up about it. That's what it should be. A fun occasion. Maybe it'll return to its beginnings now the luster is gone.

24 posted on 12/07/2022 4:31:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Allegra

Top of K-2.


25 posted on 12/07/2022 4:38:35 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Libloather

I stopped watching the Olympics over 40 years ago


26 posted on 12/07/2022 4:39:49 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The ice arena was allowed to collapse decades ago.


27 posted on 12/07/2022 4:42:52 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican
The Squaw Valley Winter Olympics were from a different era when things were a lot simpler. Wiki synopsis:
The IOC awarded the 1960 Olympics to Squaw Valley, United States. It was an undeveloped resort in 1955, so from 1956 to 1960 the infrastructure and all of the venues were built at a cost of US$80,000,000 ($565 million in 2022 dollars!) The opening and closing ceremonies were produced by Walt Disney. The Squaw Valley Olympics was the first Winter Games to have a dedicated athletes' village, the first to use a computer (courtesy of IBM) to tabulate results, and the first to feature female speed skating events. The bobsleigh events were absent for the only time due to a minimal number of nations expressing interest in competing and the cost of building a bobsleigh run.
Can you just imagine the ceremonies that Walt Disney Corp would create today? It would be nonstop homos, trannies and drag shows.
28 posted on 12/07/2022 4:44:04 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: Paladin2

Just a bit of refurbishment and rebuilding. Nothing to it.


29 posted on 12/07/2022 4:48:14 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: Texas Fossil

I wonder if they’re planning to have the Olympics before or after the end of the world.


30 posted on 12/07/2022 5:03:04 PM PST by Do_Tar (All my comments are creative or artistic expression.)
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To: Libloather

Cancel the Winter Olympics? Move them to Antarctica?


31 posted on 12/07/2022 5:11:15 PM PST by Reno89519 (I do not support Trump 2024, but if he does become candidate, I will vote for him.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I was there in 2002 for the SLC Olympic Games. Would love to see it return. I was in the arena when Sarah Hughes won the gold in women’s figure skating. I would like it even better in Calgary

That said- it would still be huge amounts of money even for cities with the infrastructure


32 posted on 12/07/2022 5:14:24 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Would love to see it in Squaw Valley- unfortunately the place no longer exists: https://www.ktvu.com/news/no-more-squaw-valley-new-name-of-ski-slope-revealed


33 posted on 12/07/2022 5:16:04 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Libloather

Just end this farce already.

L


34 posted on 12/07/2022 5:21:04 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: God luvs America

I know that, of course. They would have to bring back the name.


35 posted on 12/07/2022 5:30:34 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: Libloather

“Climate Change”

Sure. And it has nothing to do with which city will pay the biggest bribes to IOC officials. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is hosted in Dubai.
https://www.skidxb.com/en


36 posted on 12/07/2022 5:39:04 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: hinckley buzzard

It’s -36 degrees in Yakutsk, Russia; it’s supposed to be -48 tomorrow:

https://weather.com/weather/today/l/92440a7ac756369278e063f8d405ef0f666d6998f68980c355fd971e0dd24f8f

They could put ski slopes in the nearby Verkhoyansk Range. Normally it is too cold there to go outside in winter so there aren’t any slopes yet.

This is the IOC’s spot!

But if climate change activists are to be believed soon monkeys, parrots, flamingos, palm trees and other tropical fauna and flora will flourish there.


37 posted on 12/07/2022 5:57:24 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Libloather
Reuse the site for the 1976 Denver Winter Olympics. Oh, wait, they were awarded them but when the people saw the cost estimates climbing they had a referendum to stop spending on it.

That was a major case of butthurt for the supporters who way you underbid it expecting that once the snowball was rolling something minor like massive cost overruns wouldn't stop it

38 posted on 12/07/2022 5:57:30 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: Libloather

We are all going to die….. too much stupidity…..not even smart enough to grow food anymore.


39 posted on 12/07/2022 5:59:56 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: Libloather

The IOC need not worry about the 2030 Olympics. It likely ain’t gonna happen.

NATO (oops, Ukraine, wink, wink)’s continued attacks on parts of Russia’s nuclear triad, are likely to result in a nuclear exchange.

Ukraine’s drone attack on a strategic nuclear base, no matter how small the destruction, WILL BE viewed by the Russians, as a NATO attack on their nuclear trial.

The question is NOT what the Ukraine’s (NATO’s) goals were, regarding the attack, what is IMPORTANT is what the Russians PERCIEVE of the attack.

Right now, we are in more dangerous territory than the Cuban missile crisis, by far!

Maranatha!


40 posted on 12/07/2022 6:10:18 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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