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I just too hot to have the Summer Olympics in Texas unless we host it in Mid Spring. Fall is hit or miss with high temperatures and/or severe storms due to cold front's pushing through. That leads me to believe Texas probably won't ever get the Olympics.
I just too hot to have the Summer Olympics in Texas unless we host it in Mid Spring. Fall is hit or miss with high temperatures and/or severe storms due to cold front's pushing through. That leads me to believe Texas probably won't ever get the Olympics.
Texas heat is worse. we are Subject to more periods of sustained heat waves. Even with Atlanta, heat was a complaint. I doubt the international olympic committee want take that risk again. but what do I know. just my assessment
Texas heat is worse. we are Subject to more periods of sustained heat waves. Even with Atlanta, heat was a complaint. I doubt the international olympic committee want take that risk again. but what do I know. just my assessment
Yeah, and they also had the games in one of the largest cities in China (and the world), which is notorius for its pollution.
Thing is, there's always something you have to deal with. I wouldn't completely knock out Texas for consideration.
I don't care where it is in the U.S. but the U.S. just needs to bid and win. Feels like it's been too long since we've hosted one.
The IOC is more interested in bringing the games to areas of the world that have never hosted. If a city in Africa can put up at least a decent bid, I think it's a safe assumption that they will get picked to host the 2024 games. In all reality, the best change the US has of hosting another summer Olympics is in 2028.
The IOC is more interested in bringing the games to areas of the world that have never hosted. If a city in Africa can put up at least a decent bid, I think it's a safe assumption that they will get picked to host the 2024 games. In all reality, the best change the US has of hosting another summer Olympics is in 2028.
I'm fine with that, but the U.S. needs to have another in near future. I think there would be even bigger participation now in than before here.
I can not take the people who say, "track and field stadiums can't work with soccer and football" seriously. Have they not heard of the L.A. Coliseum? The place has done it all; two Olympic Games, Super Bowls, and a World Series.
In the era of luxury suites and club seats those things do not work together any more.
The IOC is more interested in bringing the games to areas of the world that have never hosted. If a city in Africa can put up at least a decent bid, I think it's a safe assumption that they will get picked to host the 2024 games. In all reality, the best change the US has of hosting another summer Olympics is in 2028.
That's part of it, but the bigger problem was revenue sharing. They eventually reached an agreement back in May.
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DALLAS - It’s a pretty simple situation.
Until the U.S. Olympic Committee reaches some kind of new revenue-sharing agreement in the apparently endless negotiations with the International Olympic Committee, there will not be another Olympic Games in the United States.
That owes to a global feeling – at least among the self-appointed pooh-bahs known as IOC members – the USOC needs to reduce its share of revenues received from U.S. broadcast rights and global Olympic sponsorships under the terms of open-ended contracts struck in 1988 and renegotiated in 1996.
That feeling is based, at best, on a presumed desire for fairness and, at worst, on resentment and anti-American hostility......
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Have they not heard of the L.A. Coliseum? The place has done it all; two Olympic Games, Super Bowls, and a World Series.
