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Pan am games. Very few cities have the facilities already in place. LA first and foremost. Indy as well and when i say facilities i mean venues that are at olympic standard. Indy doesnt have the infrastructure to host over that long of a period.
I may sound nieve, but I'm never hear of the Pan Am Games until this post. I'm not saying Indy can't host a major even (don't get me wrong), but one on the scale of the Summer olympics seems a bit far-fetched to me.
I may sound nieve, but I'm never hear of the Pan Am Games until this post. I'm not saying Indy can't host a major even (don't get me wrong), but one on the scale of the Summer olympics seems a bit far-fetched to me.
In canvassing for its next potential Olympic city, the United States Olympic Committee sent letters to the mayors of 35 American cities on Tuesday to gauge their interest in making a bid for the 2024 Games.
The cities that received the letter were Phoenix; San Jose, Calif.; Los Angeles; Sacramento; San Diego; San Francisco; Denver; Washington; Jacksonville, Fla.; Orlando, Fla.; Miami; Atlanta; Chicago; Indianapolis; Baltimore; Detroit; Minneapolis; St. Louis; Las Vegas; New York; Boston; Rochester; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbus, Ohio; Tulsa, Okla.; Portland, Ore.; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Memphis; Nashville and Davidson County; Austin, Tex.; Dallas; Houston; San Antonio; and Seattle.
Some very unusual choices there. Places like NYC or Los Angeles not surprising but Rochester and Memphis and others are definitely interesting sites. What are your thoughts?
supposedly the letter sent to Minneapolis said in part: "...the games are yours for the asking but we have to go through the charade of sending letters to all these other loser cities to maintain some semblance of objectivity. So just let us know as soon as you can." of course it was written in a type of haughty European manner so I'm paraphrasing here.
We'll take a vote at the next meeting but I seriously doubt that we want all those drug-addled, foreigners around our families.
While I would like to see something like the Olympics in Chicago (MAYBE), IMO more has to be done with stuff like the public transit if they want to hold it here. While it's probably #2 in the US, with that many more people coming plus everyone in Chicago working, the current system would not be able to handle everybody during it IMO.
It's possible and that's over 10 years away but they really need to build even more into the train system. I could see some of the smaller ones getting it, or even LA if they can get their massive public transit project finished and awesome.
supposedly the letter sent to Minneapolis said in part: "...the games are yours for the asking but we have to go through the charade of sending letters to all these other loser cities to maintain some semblance of objectivity. So just let us know as soon as you can." of course it was written in a type of haughty European manner so I'm paraphrasing here.
We'll take a vote at the next meeting but I seriously doubt that we want all those drug-addled, foreigners around our families.
This gave me a good chuckle.
These are Summer games...a good number of those cities are a bit on the small side for the typical Summer Olympics city, including my own: Nashville. Maybe 12-14 cities on that list are "big enough"...and there are a few questions about some of them if they would be viable based on climate criteria/infrastructure. The games are a good ways away...so obviously some of that can be built up...but with the smaller cities, I doubt most of them have the hotel #'s to make them work.
Some very unusual choices there. Places like NYC or Los Angeles not surprising but Rochester and Memphis and others are definitely interesting sites. What are your thoughts?
They should only seriously consider cities with multiple professional sports teams (especially NFL because they have the largest venues), right? The problem with cities like Portland is that they would need to build several new stadia for the games that would never get used again. Plus bigger cities will have more hotel space and larger infrastructures that can more easily accommodate an influx of people.
The best candidates are New York, L.A., Chicago, Bay Area, Miami, Boston, Washington, and Philadelphia. Many other cities fulfill the same criteria, but they aren't really cities I would want to show off to foreigners.
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supposedly the letter sent to Minneapolis said in part: "...the games are yours for the asking but we have to go through the charade of sending letters to all these other loser cities to maintain some semblance of objectivity. So just let us know as soon as you can." of course it was written in a type of haughty European manner so I'm paraphrasing here.
We'll take a vote at the next meeting but I seriously doubt that we want all those drug-addled, foreigners around our families.
That's interesting, I heard that the letters to the other 34 cities ended with: "P.S. Minneapolis lulz"
I read somewhere that the United States is putting a lot of effort into the 2024 bid and not surprisingly I would imagine them inviting as many American cities to bid as possible to increase chances of getting the host.
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2024 Olympics -- US choices
