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To: wagglebee

This is going to spell the death of the Olympics. The countries are not going to change. They will just stop participating, or have their own Olympics.


11 posted on 12/15/2014 6:29:10 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

There was a story not too long ago about how the number of countries that can afford to sponsor an Olympics is extremely limited. They never reach break (let alone turn a profit) for the host nation and city, are all about which place can and will pony up the $$$$ for a prestige event.

This now removes Russia and China from the list of potential hosts. Probably a few other former Soviet and Asian nations as well.

Functionally, this creates a much larger problem for the Olympics in finding a suitable and willing host, than for the nations that will be denied the privilige of pouring their treasuries into a white elephant event.


18 posted on 12/15/2014 6:37:13 AM PST by tanknetter
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