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Feels like this way of wording it gives them leeway to do whatever they want. Using an existing stadium means there's not another new stadium. Building a shiny new stadium and knocking an old one down leaves you with the same number of stadiums. Politician speak.
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https://bsky.app/profile/davidsquires.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/football/picture/2024/dec/03/david-squires-on-the-fifa-mans-plan-to-make-saudi-world-cup-dreams-come-true?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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You forgot about anti-vaxxer RFK Jr being put in charge of the anti-doping lab, and Trump himself opening the Paralympics with an Impressions Show, but apart from that a masterful summary of what we can expect. GBMod will need to go some to beat that with his next April Fool.
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Brisbane 2032 Venues/Stadiums Thread
Rob2012 replied to Victorian's topic in Brisbane 2032 Summer Games
This is becoming a joke, is there any point in this so-called 100 day review now? Victoria Park appears to have been ruled out as the site of a new Olympic stadium before the terms of reference have been finalised for a 100-day review of Games venues. Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie today dismissed the Herston option, days after Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner called for all sites to be considered and reconsidered as part of the LNP government’s independent review. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/brisbane-news-live-cctv-of-stolen-car-with-link-to-fatal-crash-released-20241107-p5konc.html?post=p57tpe#p57tpe -
MAGA Ogres to open LA28
Rob2012 replied to baron-pierreIV's topic in Los Angeles 2028 Ceremonies Discussions
I really think the US is beyond rescuing at this point. Fundamentalist Christianity, conspiracism, misogyny and racism are traits of a huge number of Americans in 2024. I don't know why people are wheeling out the ol' American exceptionalism here, as if that couldn't possibly be true. As far as I can see, and from what I've seen in every interview with a Trump supporter, it is. They voted en mass for the person giving them all those things. -
Cancel the Games and give the money to Poland and the Baltics to develop nukes.
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Social media livestream from GamesBids.com
Rob2012 replied to GBModerator's topic in Ask The Moderator
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Social media livestream from GamesBids.com
Rob2012 replied to GBModerator's topic in Ask The Moderator
YouTube seems to the obvious option for video but I don't know if you're on there? But you have an existing Facebook page with a few thousand followers, that would work too. I'm trying to avoid 'x' as much as I can since Musk's a fascist, Trumpist prick who personally amplifies riot inciters in my country. I don't want to be giving him clicks or $$$. -
Worst Olympic Venues? The Shame Gallery
Rob2012 replied to Sir Rols's topic in General Olympics Discussion
Oh dear, cosplaying being a moderator again just because a discussion point he started is going in a direction he now doesn't now like. And it's doubly a shame because I think his posts in the Brisbane threads of late have been decent. FWIW, I do think Paris organisers took a huge (but admirable) risk with the Seine, but with no real backup (not admirable). It was obvious to everyone how polluted this river was and how tight the timelines were for fixing it, but I feel some arrogance and politics got in the way. It definitely belongs in this thread (and it was Rols who nominated it, not AF). -
Brisbane 2032 Venues/Stadiums Thread
Rob2012 replied to Victorian's topic in Brisbane 2032 Summer Games
I don't think that was ever a worry really. Most of the discussion here has really been about how Brisbane was awarded the Games and how this stadium debacle reflects on the new process, on the IOC, and on Brisbane and its organising committee. Only the most pessimistic have suggested the '32 Games are under existential threat because of this. ALL THAT SAID - The thing with Tokyo is they already had a site selected and masterplanned for their stadium, with considerations like transport already worked out. All they did was switch one design out for another on the same site. Brisbane isn't even at that stage yet. So whilst 8 years is plenty of time, you're right, it could quickly be eaten up if this planning/arguing stage drags on much longer. And I think it probably precludes anything really ambitious that requires huge transport links/regeneration etc. My guess is it's now between the Gabba and Vic Park. Would that be a fair assumption? -
^^ Hidalgo had an odd Olympics, but this is amazing!
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The global right is now an extremist movement https://bsky.app/profile/politico.eu/post/3l7dcwqrdxu2f