Posted on 02/21/2010 12:36:14 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Recently rebuffed in its attempt to hold the 2016 Summer Games in Chicago, the U.S. Olympic Committee does not plan to enter a U.S. city in the race for the 2020 Summer Games and remains uncertain about when it will next attempt to bring a Games to U.S. soil, USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun said Saturday morning.
"The cold and hard reality is Chicago spent approximately $80 million on its bid," Blackmun said. "It's going to be difficult to get U.S. cities to continue to invest to that level unless they think they have a realistic chance of winning. The [International Olympic Committee] sent us a message, loud and clear, that they don't want the Games to be in the United States."
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I think that was a music pavilion after the World’s Fair. Led Zeppelin etc
“Think Athens is swimming in cash after hosting theirs?”
There is a theory that it helped to negatively impact the finances of the entire Greek government. That may be a major overstatement, but who knows.
http://business.theatlantic.com/2010/02/did_the_olympics_break_the_greek_government.php
Are you saying that Spiveys Corner will not be making a bid this year?
I agree. We had the summer games and winter games recently. But if there is one country that is least deserving of a games, its Russia, one of the most corrupt, least deserving of any on the planet. I love the winter games, but the 2014 winter games in Russia is a IOC politically correct nightmare call.
Only if you want a riot after every American Gold Metal win.
Now all the US needs is for one of our biathlon athletes to get a medal.
Since the Winter Olympics have started, the US has never won a medal.
I’d have to look but I’d also say it’s been decades since we last won a medal in cross-country skiing. The Europeans seem to have a lock in that event.
“The cold and hard reality is Chicago spent approximately $80 million on its bid.”
How do you spend 80 million on a bid? What a complete ripoff.
The olympics are a luxury that we can not afford. Let them go away for another day.
“Now all the US needs is for one of our biathlon athletes to get a medal.”
You’d think there’d be some Americans that can shoot in the winter...
The biathlon competition is about skiing as much as shooting. The nations that do the best have the longest winters to allow for the most training in really intense cross-country skiing.
Look at who just cleaned up: Norway and Sweden. The Norwegians invented the sport.
What is really sad is that in a nation with as strong a base of gun owners, the US shooting teams have to use Anschuetz rifles, because there is no one making a competitive .22 rifle in the US.
aye, that was my thought.
Most sports venues (olympics, professional teams, etc) are all money losers for their city.
It is only politicians who push for these so they can funnel projects to political cronies.
“You’d think there’d be some Americans that can shoot in the winter...”
Oh, there a great many of us who can shoot in the winter (and the spring, and the summer, and the fall), but most of us don’t get terribly excited about having to ski till our hearts and lungs explode in order to do it. We do it the right way: Identify a target, shoot it, and go back in the house for a beer.
“...the U.S. Olympic Committee does not plan to enter a U.S. city in the race for the 2020 Summer Games...”
No one holds the Olympics in a third world nation populated with dusty villages and starving poor people...
Just setting the stage for the next steps in the Hussein Plan.
Actually, they probably did.
The Obama goons bought up all the property and spiffed it up, thinking that the great 0ne would bring home the bacon for them.
What tragic results ;-)
That’s a shame.
The US may not want to seek out the Olympics soon, but Texas may.
It used to be mine as well, long before those structures were even dreamed of. I learned to ice skate in the NYC Building and how to swim at the Aquacade. Both of those sites were leftovers from the '39 Fair. My grandfather(who passed away in '50) used to take me mushroom hunting there. My mother learned how to drive on the winding roads in the "Fair Grounds" as it was known. (Can still hear my father yelling, "Clutch...clutch...clutch" as the car bucked and lugged) I learned how to fish there, an avocation that remains to this day.
Aside from sitting under the Unisphere, passing around a jug of wine, listening to the concerts in the NY State pavilion in the early 70's, I don't think I ever went back to the Fair Grounds for the rest of my time in Fun City.
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