re: Seriously, Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics

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Lolno

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Atlanta and Salt Lake are the only profitable olympics in the last half century...

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They should go to the country with the most gold medals in the previous Olympics

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Russia??

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In Kazakhstan we have many hobbies: disco dancing, archery, rape, and table tennis.

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"qualifications?"

"rape, murder, arson & rape"

"you said rape twice"

"I like rape"

They should've just given into their demands and then when they got there give them burner phones and tell them there are taxis 24/7 out front but get there early as traffic will probably be worse than normal. All while sipping a Pepsi from one of the many stocked mini fridges.

It's down to either Almaty or Beijing

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It's down to either Almaty or Beijing

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brilliant, you read the article too?

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Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics

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I read a article awhile back that stated that there's a large likelihood host sites fall into complete financial ruin. Here it is LINK

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Cities all over the world get down and dirty for a shot at bringing the globe's greatest games to their country. It's like the Hunger Games of the adult world, only without the starvation, murder and incest (we haven't read The Hunger Games). Getting chosen to host the Olympics is a tacit acknowledgment that your city is awesome and worthy of the eyes of the whole planet. Do you think anyone is going to campaign to bring the Olympics to Little Rock, Arkansas, or Cleveland? Hosting the Olympics means your city will be remembered and respected for decades. Is there any other honor greater than that?

But there's a price to getting the privilege of hosting the Olympics, and that price might be your entire economy. Greece learned the lesson the hard way.

Greece's initial budget for the 2004 games was 4.5 billion euros, but the actual cost of the games quickly doubled that estimate. When all was said and done, the cost of the games was 5 percent of Greece's GDP, and eight years later, the country hasn't recovered from the debt. The city of Vancouver has given up on recovering all the money it put into its fancy schmancy Olympic Village condos that were later converted into residential homes. Today the buildings form a ghost town, and city officials are struggling to come up with a way to just break even on them.

The Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998 plunged the city into a recession, with the tax burden of the games ending up costing around $30,000 per family in the city. And none of these financial disasters compare to Montreal (Greece pending). Their Olympic stadium wasn't finished until 11 years after the games ended, and it took no less than 30 years to pay down the debt incurred to host the 1976 Olympics.

Which completely explains why the people of Bern, Switzerland, voted down their chance to host the 2010 games. And why Detroit wisely stopped bidding for the "honor" by 1972.

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Good, maybe this will be the last winter olympics

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this ... used to enjoy the olympics, but it's a joke now ... buncha pretentious fricks who want their own lane ...

I don't understand why they just don't build a nice setup in Athens for the summer Olympics, and a nice set up in Salt Lake/Colorado/somewhere in Canada for the winter.