To: snarkpup
No wonder why the USA is making a serious bid to host the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup, with good reasons:
1. Soccer fans will spending a lot of money around and in the stadium.
2. There are plentiful American football stadiums that only need minor modifications to install FIFA-standard real grass soccer pitches. Can you imagine the final at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, aka "Jerry World"?
The problem with biking races like this is that it ends up hurting local businesses because the visitors won't patronize the local businesses.
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11/30/2016 7:39:20 AM PST by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: RayChuang88
For a number of years I watched the Tour de France on television, and have wondered what it is like for the live spectators and businesses along the route. As a spectator, it would seem that - depending on your location - you wait for hours, and the body of the race (peloton) flashes by in the space of a minute or so, followed by a few stragglers over the next ten minutes. Only a few hundred of the spectators are positioned where they have a clear view of the end of the race.
The race is stretched out over 2000+ miles, and barriers must be set up within the last kilometer or so of each stage, and at various choke points along the way. Traffic is obviously disrupted, limiting local access. I don't know if businesses along the route benefit or suffer from all that.
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