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The Milan Cortina Italy thread
BTHarner replied to mountainboarder_530@yahoo.'s topic in 2026 Olympic Winter Games Bids
Could it be better? Certainly. Still better than London or Sochi. Based on the results, it looks as if I didn't need to stuff the ballot box to keep that other option from winning. Though more colorful, something just looked off about it, Then I actually read what it was supposed to be and I found out it was a video game joystick which would allow all of us to play and that just came off as tacky. -
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BTHarner replied to olympikfan's topic in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
Graham is an idiot, IIRC he wanted to boycott PyeongChang because it was too close to North Korea. -
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BTHarner replied to olympikfan's topic in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
The USOPC will never willingly boycott any Games. They were bludgeoned into it in 1980. The US has been the IOC's sugar daddy for a long time, but China is a threat to that so any boycott based on commercial considerations is absolute nonsense. -
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BTHarner replied to olympikfan's topic in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
It's not often that I get excited about the one year to go to the closing ceremony of an Olympic Games. But, a year from today it will all be over, thankfully. -
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BTHarner replied to olympikfan's topic in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
It annoys me that all these statements from these political types focus solely on the Olympics. I haven't read one comment regarding Paralympic participation nor have I heard any comments out of Asia that attending the Asian Games in Hangzhou is tacit acceptance of the actions of the Chinese government. -
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BTHarner replied to olympikfan's topic in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
Was that from the Washington Post or the New York Post? So hard to tell the difference anymore. -
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BTHarner replied to olympikfan's topic in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games
All we are seeing here are bold pronouncements by public figures that only serve to inflate their sense of self-importance. Do they know what boycotts really accomplish? Absolutely nothing. Jimmy Carter gave the Soviets one month to get out of Afghanistan They eventually withdrew...two administrations later and not because of anything of our doing. We heard all this noise in 2008 when delusional people actually thought they could get China to improve their human rights record. They didn't and, by some accounts, they have gotten even worse. They, however. really don't care what anybody thinks -
So, in this instance, it was a case of somebody saying something to somebody who put out a story without doing any research and then press agencies around globe spread the story without doing any research. Modern day journalism, you gotta love it.
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Based on the report, they seem to want to do it. But then, the report could just be presenting the opinion of one person, and not the feelings of many.
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They meaning the Japanese in general. I don't see many of the Tokyo hierarchy still being in the picture in another decade.
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They're talking about a Sapporo bid for the winter games, so they might be in bed with the IOC regardless.
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Probably the only realistic scenario. The IOC should offer them the opportunity to host in 2032.
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Too bad that Bob Ley was never in a position to be a Olympic primetime host. Just my opinion, but he would have been far better than Jim McKay or Bob Costas.
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What is Needed to Bid for the Pan Am Games?
BTHarner replied to anthonyliberatori's topic in Pan Am Games / Bids
I don't know about 2031 with LA hosting the 2028 Olympics and Salt Lake perhaps hosting the Winter Games in 2030 or 2034. I doubt the USOPC will be interested in presenting a Pan Am bid in that time frame unless PanAm Sports is desperate for a host and a some sort accommodation favorable to the USOPC can be reached. I like the idea about a DC-Baltimore bid, it being so close to home. However, despite the fact that the Pan Am Games do not require the mega-facilities of the Olympics, the price tag for 2015 and 2019 was more than a billion dollars for each edition. How would a US based games