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It's crazy how one of the most important cities in the world, if not the most, has never hosted the Olympic games, when London has hosted them three times and Los Angeles or Athens have host them twice each. Even St Louis and Atlanta had a chance...
It's crazy how one of the most important cities in the world, if not the most, has never hosted the Olympic games, when London has hosted them three times and Los Angeles or Athens have host them twice each. Even St Louis and Atlanta had a chance...
NYC has only put in a bid once (for the 2012 Games), and that was hampered by stadium construction funding issues. Chicago was the USOC choice for 2016, and for 2020 the USOC refused to enter a bid. Perhaps in 2024...
We don't need NYC to get the Olympics. It has a ton of stuff already. Olympics are for medium size places looking for a boost of infrastructure.
Yeah, London and Tokyo are "medium size places" when they are already great cities that have a ton of stuff, and even by 1984 Los Angeles was a big place, and Rio is the Los Angeles of Brazil. Bejing and Sydney are also huge world cities. Atlanta was the last "medium size place" on a global scale to host the games, so currently the trend is toward a larger city. And by 2024, it will have been 22 years since the US will have hosted any Olympics (summer or winter), and with New York still a healthy "gold medal city" where you do need gold to survive will still be a viable place. Plenty of hotels, hopefully the 2nd avenue subway will be complete by then to ease transportation, the incentive to build a high-speed train, and 400th anniversary celebrations of Manhattan's purchase two years after the bid, so there will be some good post-Olympics momentum. Also, there will be lots of "roaring 20's commemorations" of the previous century. 2028 also could be a good time to bid if not 2024. And many of the sports facilities are still fairly recent (Giants stadium, Yankee Stadium, Barclays Center) with always room to build a new Olympic stadium in Queens.
Last edited by Borntoolate85; 02-26-2014 at 05:33 AM..
We don't need NYC to get the Olympics. It has a ton of stuff already. Olympics are for medium size places looking for a boost of infrastructure.
Perhaps if NYC hosted the Olympics, NYC's aging infrastructure would get upgraded faster.
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