I’ve always thought we should just have it in ONE place so everybody doesn’t have to build all the expensive venues. Maybe we should have it in GREECE! A great tourist spot & they could actually use an economic boost & some cash these days.
Beat me by 18 seconds! Great minds think alike and all that?
If there are a permanent Olympic sites that means the IOC voting members don’t get their bribe money anymore. Not going to happen...
**I’ve always thought we should just have it in ONE place so everybody doesn’t have to build all the expensive venues. Maybe we should have it in GREECE! A great tourist spot & they could actually use an economic boost & some cash these days.**
Or have the games spread out around the world with countries hosting events that are unique to their country, where facilities are already in place. Have them all during the same two week window.
Baseball? US or Japan.
Track and Field? Toss that to Greece.
Soccer? Prelims could be held most anyplace in Europe and then fall in on a larger stadium
Taekwondo? Korea
Tennis? Rotate around the Grand Slam venues.
Face it, tons of Olympic sports don’t require a large stadium anyway. Fencing, shooting and Archery come to mind.
I wonder how much they could save by dropping 80% of the sports. Fewer things to be held simultaneously means fewer venues / facilities needed and less likelihood a special facility has to be built for only that one sport.
And fewer sports means fewer athletes to host and attendee tickets reserved for family and more for the public.
Another option is moving the Olympics back to facilities that hosted it recently, reusing relatively new facilities.
I believe that when the Olympics were restarted, after a thousand and some years, the original plan was to have them only in Greece. That plan was vetoed.