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Seems they are way behind schedule, corruption and massive cost over runs seem to be a part of the problem,, Seems every place that has the Olympics ends up costing tax payers big time, i think its time to put the Olympics in a single venue and have costs spread out over all participating countries.The upcoming Rio games look like a disaster in the making..
Seems they are way behind schedule, corruption and massive cost over runs seem to be a part of the problem,, Seems every place that has the Olympics ends up costing tax payers big time, i think its time to put the Olympics in a single venue and have costs spread out over all participating countries.The upcoming Rio games look like a disaster in the making..
It's a good thought, but.....
1. Where do you have it?
2. Countries like having it because it showcases them, if that ends, only one city gets the attention plus the millions in profits.
3. Home field advantage.
This doesn't tell me anything useful. "thousands of people celebrated..." How many thousand? Either way that's not even close to the majority of Rio, let alone Brazil. I don't see why the average middle class or especially poor person wants their tax money diverted to this. You can't blame the population for probably only a handful of people's decision to host the Olympics.
This doesn't tell me anything useful. "thousands of people celebrated..." How many thousand? Either way that's not even close to the majority of Rio, let alone Brazil. I don't see why the average middle class or especially poor person wants their tax money diverted to this. You can't blame the population for probably only a handful of people's decision to host the Olympics.
Maybe it's different in your city, but here in Houston, getting thousands of people to turn out at a park to celebrate this would only happen if a sizable chunk of the population was excited about it.
Additionally, I'd bet that most people believe the hype presented to them and never hear the reality. When Houston was making a bid, our newspaper and tv news was all "rah, rah, this will be great". You never heard about all of the associated problems. Well, I'm guessing that 90% of the coverage was positive and contained no "realities".
This doesn't tell me anything useful. "thousands of people celebrated..." How many thousand? Either way that's not even close to the majority of Rio, let alone Brazil. I don't see why the average middle class or especially poor person wants their tax money diverted to this. You can't blame the population for probably only a handful of people's decision to host the Olympics.
I'm not saying that the Brazilian government did a good job preparing for the games, but it is transforming the city. While infrastructure is still lacking, it has progressed dramatically in the last 5 or so years. People in lower middle class now have access to better jobs, many of the poorest of the poor are climbing out of the bottom of the economic spectrum, etc. They do seem to be way behind on preparations and wasting a lot of money, but lives are improving from what I have seen.
who cares? I cant stand the Olympics. if countries want it and the Olympic committee chooses cities (based on money being given to Olympic committee members) then that's all find and dandy with me. if it works out, fine. if it doesn't work out, I don't care. im not sure why we obsess over the Olympics and whether or not it will be a success. there was all that annoying complaining about sochi ahead of the Olympics there. not my problem and I don't find the problem the least bit interesting.
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