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re: 2022 Winter Olympics: Almaty or Beijing?
Posted on 7/28/15 at 6:04 am to Tigertown in ATL
Posted on 7/28/15 at 6:04 am to Tigertown in ATL
New Orleans should get in the mix for a summer games.
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:26 am to Alter Number 3
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New Orleans should get in the mix for a summer games.
I'm down with this.
We could make bets on which athletes die of heat exhaustion during some of the long events.
Posted on 7/28/15 at 9:49 am to Alter Number 3
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New Orleans should get in the mix for a summer games.
They were invited to submit a bid by the USOC for 2024 but apparently declined.
You would need to do a lot of work. There are some facilities in place - the Superdome, the New Orleans Arena, the Lakefront Arena, City Park, you could use some of the facilities LSU has in Baton Rouge - but a lot of that would have to be remodeled and that's not counting the new facilities that would need to be built.
You would need to dramatically upgrade the transportation infrastructure. You would need more hotel rooms. You would need to find a place for an Olympic village. And you would probably have to hold the Olympics in April instead of August to avoid the peak of hurricane season. And that's on the hope that there isn't a hurricane in August 2023 that tears up a bunch of your facilities.
Conceivably we could pull it off but we're nowhere near ready.
This post was edited on 7/28/15 at 9:53 am
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