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re: Is it time to quit having the Olympic games?
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:11 pm to pvilleguru
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:11 pm to pvilleguru
quote:
Soccer is a U23 tournament.
What is this? Sorry, I am not familiar with that term.
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Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:14 pm to LCA131
Olympics only allow 3-4 players over the age of 23 to play on each team.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:31 pm to LCA131
quote:
Thank you for contributing though I wish it was something new instead of one that has been previously mentioned numerous times.
Ah yes, because your original question was a groundbreaking discussion that's never made it's way to this forum till today.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:35 pm to DrSteveBrule
I just don't understand how these people justify spending all this money for these limited events. How do these hosts think that it is worth it? Is it simply that the politicians agree to it because of corruption, and they can skim off the top? And the people of this country allow the politicians to agree to it because they are too stupid to see the corruption or simply expect the corruption?
The older I get the more the world seems like a strange chaotic place devoid of order and ration.
The older I get the more the world seems like a strange chaotic place devoid of order and ration.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:38 pm to LCA131
They need about 8 permanent locations, what did they think would happen when they put it in a corrupt Latino shite hole
Atlanta
L.A.
London
Tokyo
Berlin
Moscow
Beijing
Something like that.
Atlanta
L.A.
London
Tokyo
Berlin
Moscow
Beijing
Something like that.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:47 pm to LCA131
Innsbruck Austria needs to be the permanent winter site
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:54 pm to Strannix
The only problem with 8 locations would be the amount of time that would pass before individual locations would get reused. By the time a city got around to rehosting the olympics, the facilities would be incredibly dated.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:58 pm to BuckeyeFan87
An excellent point. Think of how much things progress in just 24 years? 32?
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:58 pm to BuckeyeFan87
They need to go away. Complete waste of money.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 4:43 pm to Bestbank Tiger
quote:
fascist regimes like red China,
fascism, communism...all the same, right? Might want to take a quick look at a figure depicting the political spectrum.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 4:44 pm to DrSteveBrule
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So far, it's fricked Rio and it did a hell of a job fricking Greece's economy
What does this even mean?
Posted on 6/25/16 at 4:46 pm to LCA131
I think yes, maybe. Unless they decide to only allow the countries to host that already have the infrastructure in place to support the games
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:03 pm to anc
quote:
Also, beginning in Tokyo 2020, the host country can add five sports to the 26-sport program to help local interest. Baseball and softball should be back at least for 2020
Does this mean if LA gets the 2024 games we can add football? That would be very entertaining.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:24 pm to LCA131
No, they should just keep it greece
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:52 pm to anc
quote:
The only cities outside of the USA that could handle a modern Olympics are
Beijing/Shanghai
Tokyo
London
Paris
Sydney
Rome
Did you sleep through 2004?
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:53 pm to LCA131
Yes.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 6:24 pm to Scoop
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It's time to stop having them in third world countries.
Only acceptable answer
Posted on 6/25/16 at 6:41 pm to tiggerthetooth
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The Olympics are boring now. I can't really put my finger on it though.
For me the TV coverage is way over the top. They started to cater to the female viewership a long time ago.
They of course started to show more rhythmic dancing sort of stuff, but it was the constant up close and personal stories about every athlete that gets to me. Every store is a sob story, "his sister lost two fingers from freezer burn because she ate too much gelato" or "her mom got clotheslined by a clothesline and lost her hearing".
They also constantly tease you about an event that is coming up. "Stay tuned we will be right back with more commercials and sob stories" before you get to see something worth anything.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 7:25 pm to chity
Yes the TV coverage has reached a saturation point. But those are pretty smart folks who do tons of research about what sells...
Some great points have been made.
Some great points have been made.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 10:16 pm to chity
Rio has all the earmarks of disaster.
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