We should host the Olympics in the same place every time

Post by marze » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 3:56 AM UTC

braythwayt wrote: post #3

I think this is a piece of learned trolling, satire designed to provoke us into thinking hard about what the IOC really is. The IOC profits from the selection process as much as it does from the games. The bribes, the payments, everything involved in this horrible “competition” fills their coffers with money. If the games were held in the same place every year, there would be no bribes to rig bids. There would be no…

Post by dghughes » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 4:23 AM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #87

dghughes wrote: post #64

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The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece. What better place to hold games originally religious in nature from Greece than this region? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos

> The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece. I don't follow the "logic" here at all. What makes Mount Athos more appropriate than, say, Olympia, the traditional site of the Olympic games?

Post by MichaelGG » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 5:03 AM UTC

pakled_engineer wrote: post #13

braythwayt wrote: post #3

I think this is a piece of learned trolling, satire designed to provoke us into thinking hard about what the IOC really is. The IOC profits from the selection process as much as it does from the games. The bribes, the payments, everything involved in this horrible “competition” fills their coffers with money. If the games were held in the same place every year, there would be no bribes to rig bids. There would be no…

The local politicians in my city that lured the IOC here through bribes were all later parachuted into lucrative foreign service diplomatic posts and various IOC connected director positions after. That's the true legacy of the games, the politicians raise their profile, network with the world's elite and move into international politics while the rest of us pay for their promotions. Having the winter olympics in Swi…

Post by crdoconnor » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 5:39 AM UTC

braythwayt wrote: post #35

geuis wrote: post #29

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I agree with everything you wrote, except for the first 10 words. This isn't a trollish idea. It's a practical solution that solves a real problem. Any time in conversation this topic comes up, I make the same argument that it doesn't make financial sense to move from city to city like a plague.

It’s practical in the sense that it would logically work. But it’s impractical in the sense that it doesn’t actually satisfy the needs of anybody in the IOC or the bid committees that try to get tax money to enrich themselves, or the needs of politicians who want to bask in the halo of “winning and hosting the games."

Post by rdlecler1 » Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 6:09 AM UTC