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.
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Mars should be good.
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!
Oh, pick somewhere in the Arctic and be done with it. How about Svalbard, Norway?
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.
Top of K-2.
I stopped watching the Olympics over 40 years ago
The ice arena was allowed to collapse decades ago.
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.
Just a bit of refurbishment and rebuilding. Nothing to it.
I wonder if they’re planning to have the Olympics before or after the end of the world.
Cancel the Winter Olympics? Move them to Antarctica?
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
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
Just end this farce already.
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I know that, of course. They would have to bring back the name.
“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
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.
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
We are all going to die….. too much stupidity…..not even smart enough to grow food anymore.
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!
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