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Toronto 2024 Olympic Bid (Dead)

I am mixed on hosting the games. Vancouver broke even if if recall correctly, but Montreal became known as the Owe-lympics. We wouldn't have to spend $50 billion like Sochi though, half of which was bribes and kickbacks.
 
I am mixed on hosting the games. Vancouver broke even if if recall correctly, but Montreal became known as the Owe-lympics. We wouldn't have to spend $50 billion like Sochi though, half of which was bribes and kickbacks.

Calgary did well economically as well in 1988.
Canada should either stick to winter Olympics or keep the Olympics in the west - those are the well run ones.
Maybe we will see how the PanAm games go.
 
Calgary did well economically as well in 1988.
Canada should either stick to winter Olympics or keep the Olympics in the west - those are the well run ones.
Maybe we will see how the PanAm games go.

Calgary got incredibly lucky. It was the first Olympics where the US networks' bidding war went off the charts. They had budgeted for about the same TV revenue as the '84 games, and ended up with 10 times more, which put the whole thing well into the black.
 
I am mixed on hosting the games. Vancouver broke even if if recall correctly, but Montreal became known as the Owe-lympics. We wouldn't have to spend $50 billion like Sochi though, half of which was bribes and kickbacks.

I am from Vancouver - and breaking even (immediate perspective) - for the event but the lasting effects - better transportation and larger presence on the world map = increased tourist revenue.
 
Olso has removed itself from the running for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The Norwegian media has reported on the demands the IOC has made of host cities in their "technical manuals". The list includes (via Google Translate and a few edits by me):

* IOC members will meet the King before the opening ceremony. Afterwards, they shall have a cocktail reception, where the drinks are payable by the Royal Family or possibly the Norwegian Olympic Committee.

* Full control over all advertising spaces throughout the city of Oslo as long as the games progress. Only the IOC's own sponsors will receive advertising. Even street vendors must be removed.

* All IOC members will get a new mobile phone with a Norwegian subscription. The phone must be of the brand Samsung.

TRANSPORTATION

* Organizer City shall provide and pay their own cars with driver for IOC execs, IOC members and other IOC people should have own car with driver

* Other traffic should be limited. IOC proposes the closure of schools and the local people are encouraged to take vacations

* There should be created their own Olympic lanes on all roads where IOC execs walk or drive. Here, ordinary people and public transport refused to run

* Separate entrances for IOC execs at the airport

* IOC president to receive a grand welcome on the runway on arrival in Norway

* Traffic rules and traffic lights must be adjusted so that the Olympic traffic is prioritized

* Ban on turning on the roads to and from the Olympic facilities

IOC-HOTEL

* Should be particularly well appointed and service people should be alert to repair the slightest mistake immediately.

* IOC members will be received with a smile on arrival at hotel

* 24-Hour Front emergency services available at the hotel

* A Greeting from local Olympic boss and hotel manager will be set up in rooms with seasonal fruits and cakes.

* Hot breakfast buffet with new dishes from day to day. Additional staffing so that IOC bosses don't have to line up.

* Bars at the hotel are open "extra late" and the mini bars shall include Coca-Cola products

* 24-hour room service, butler service and washing and pressing service

* The hotel must have shops and they cannot exhibit products that compete with Olympic sponsors

IOC MEETING ROOMS

* Must have immediate access to all-inclusive banquet service

* All rooms must keep exactly 20 degrees all the time

* Meeting room the IOC board will use must be equipped with a rectangular conference table that is empty in the middle

STADIUM

* IOC members to be dropped off just outside the stadium, and escorted to the VIP lounge with dedicated staff

* There should be continuous access to sufficient food and drink of "high quality". Light snacks and canapés are not good enough

* Provision of hot dishes must be replaced regularly as IOC members may risk having to eat more meals in the lounge during the Olympics

* All furniture should be Olympic-shaped and have "Olympic appearance," and it should be easy to navigate between the lounge and seats in the stands

* During the opening and closing ceremonies, there must be full bar available. On competition days, it's ok with just beer and wine in the lounge at the stadium.
 
What, no bowl of only green M&Ms? No bottles of Fiji Water kept at exactly 4C?

Honestly, if IOC demands are going to look so much like a rock star's rider, they might as well just have directly asked for hookers and blow.
 
Tulse:

And $20 bills - it's all about the sports and athletes afterall. In any case, hosting the Olympics is looking to be an increasingly worthless proposition in my books.

AoD
 
What, no bowl of only green M&Ms?

The story behind the green M&Ms is that it was a quick way to test whether the whole list of requirements had been read and followed. The list included a lot of specific technical things re: sound etc. So if the band arrived and saw the wrong colours in the M&M bowl or NO M&M bowl (!), they knew they needed to check everything else.

The IOC is just a bunch of corrupt, greedy, self-indulgent prima donnas.
 
I don't blame Norway for backing out. All of those sites around Sochi are already ignored. Let Borat host the games...
 
The story behind the green M&Ms is that it was a quick way to test whether the whole list of requirements had been read and followed. The list included a lot of specific technical things re: sound etc. So if the band arrived and saw the wrong colours in the M&M bowl or NO M&M bowl (!), they knew they needed to check everything else.

That may be the origin of that particular request, but egotistical rock stars have long requested a variety of outrageous dressing room amenities in their contract rider.

As do, apparently, old white European apparatchiks from Lausanne.
 
That may be the origin of that particular request, but egotistical rock stars have long requested a variety of outrageous dressing room amenities in their contract rider.

As do, apparently, old white European apparatchiks from Lausanne.

* IOC members will be received with a smile on arrival at hotel

I think that one is what got me going WTF the most.
 
Perhaps they should let the new Islamic State host? I can just imagine the new athletic events they'd propose...
 

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