Tulsa bid to host 2020 Summer Olympics? (Norman, Stillwater: 2009, hotels, home)

[TulsaArtist]

I know I know, fall out of your chair absurd idea right?

Tulsa World: Committee eyes possible Tulsa bid for Olympics

Tulsans Look To Host 2020 Olympics - NewsOn6.com - Tulsa, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports - KOTV.com |

At first I was like,,, You have got to be kidding. However, I like big ideas and going for it. I like thinking out of the box and giving it a go. Sometimes its the unexpected, taking the untried path that changes ones perspective and you suddenly realize you might be on to something. Even if that something wasnt what you had originally expected.

After watching the News on 6 segment, it appears that what Tulsa would be doing would be making itself the headquarter city for an Oklahoma/regional bid for the Olympics. They noted that the Atlanta Olympics, didnt actually have all the events in Atlanta. Like the big, money making, Soccer events being in Florida. The story mentioned that we would actually have events hosted as far away as Norman, Stillwater, Bartlesville and OKC. We would be the instigators and the "named face" of the Olympics, but it would really be many cities, or "Oklahoma" putting on the games. In this light, this laughable idea starts to look interesting. The very novelty of the approach being proffered, if played right, would at least get us a double take lol, and there may actually be advantages to this approach (versus one huge city like Chicago) which might have been over looked simply because nobody else has ever been so bold as to even consider the idea.

There are some possibilities here. But you would have to play your cards with all the flair and finesse you could muster. That would include getting all the other cities like OKC behind the idea. I think it would be great to have everyone pulling together to get this to happen. Though OKC might be a bit upset that it wasnt their name up as being the host city . Hey, it was our insane idea lol. Though they and all the other cities and colleges would get a lot of attention.

[04JETTA]

That is actually really awesome

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Originally Posted by TulsaArtist

After watching the News on 6 segment, it appears that what Tulsa would be doing would be making itself the headquarter city for an Oklahoma/regional bid for the Olympics. They noted that the Atlanta Olympics, didnt actually have all the events in Atlanta. Like the big, money making, Soccer events being in Florida. The story mentioned that we would actually have events hosted as far away as Norman, Stillwater, Bartlesville and OKC. We would be the instigators and the "named face" of the Olympics, but it would really be many cities, or "Oklahoma" putting on the games.

That would include getting all the other cities like OKC behind the idea. I think it would be great to have everyone pulling together to get this to happen. Though OKC might be a bit upset that it wasnt their name up as being the host city . Hey, it was our insane idea lol. Though they and all the other cities and colleges would get a lot of attention.

Well we all know how statewide efforts have played out in professional sports so I'll leave that one alone. Making a bid is intriguing but thats all. No way in a million years would the olympics come to Tulsa or any other city in the plains. I like my home state just fine but to suggest the Olympics would come here is more than a shot in the dark. Call me a pessimist but I've seen Oklahoma get the shaft on many national events and this won't be the last.

[happytown]

Tulsa and OKC combined don't even have the infrastructure to support the Olympics. Hotels? Major airport? Mass transit? The list goes on and on. I hope the people of Tulsa don't have to spend a penny to make a bid on this joke.

[Synopsis]

Big, BIG attempt. I don't think there is a snowball's chance in hell that it could or would ever happen though. And HT is right. There is no major airport in either OkC or Tulsa, or the infrastructure in terms of hotels and mass transit to support such an endeavor. Kudos to Tulsa for thinking big.

[brikag]

I don't know what to make of this. I seriously think it would not happen. It would be interesting what their grand scheme of things would be. But, I would have to laugh just the same way when the mayor of Birmingham, AL. said they're placing their bid for 2020. Convince me that I'm wrong....

They (the Tulsa bid committee) mentioned Atlanta when they hosted the SO in '96. I was there as a spectator and it was a FIASCO! Traffic was the major problem.

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Discuss......

[nevergoingback]

lmao. Its gotta be April 1st or something.

[brikag]

The IOC is strict on the timeline! They want the SO to be hosted in July, Aug, or early Sept. Dubai didn't make the cut for the 2016 bid b/c they wanted to host the games in Oct. The IOC said NO WAY!!!! They dropped them like a bad habit. I'm not from Tulsa, but are the summers that unbearable? If so, they'll have a logistics and funding problem if they want to host.

[lasomeday]

I don't think it will happen, but if it did it will definitely change the state in many many ways. They will have to get mass transit in Tulsa. They will have to add more stadiums and hotels. The airports would have to be expanded, and then housing for the athletes will be needed.

[Brookside]

Yes, the summers are really unbearable. It's 100 degrees this minute and miserable.

For this and other reasons, I really do not believe this will happen. I actually think it is Mayor Taylor's communications staff working overtime. Like them or not, they are pros at generating spin. It's good PR to for a city to claim it's making a bid -- gets people to talking about Tulsa and in turn gives them an opportunity to promote "all the wonderful and exciting things that have happened in Tulsa lately," even if the bid never comes to fruition.

And it won't.