Roger87

The main (and perhaps) sole reason is political post Brexit. Some sort of counterbalance to avoid the centralized influence of London, while BoJo consolidating the northern lines.

Just a week after the event. Boring ceremony, but the last hour brings the excitement. Then "Parasite" became the first foreign language film to win Best Picture and South Korea became the second non anglophone to have a sole Best Picture winner (non co-production) after France (2011's "The Artist"). After the impact of K-Pop and Asian sports, now this. If only Pres. Moon drops North Korea and goes for a sole Seoul Summer Olympics.

Beside that, the border is mixed between low infrasteucture and chemical exposure per Chernobyl

If I need to pick the cities: -Los Angeles -New York City -Dallas -Atlanta -Boston -Washington D.C. -Kansas City -Miami -Seattle -San Jose With Philadelphia and Houston as alternatives.

TBH, I think it's better doing the ceremonies in one sole stadium. So it's better that idea.

Nah, if Almaty couldn't win with the "artificial snow", there's no way unless there's Braslov and Lviv.

Just in case, the dimensions of the Randstad (I wrote it wrong before, sorry)

Well, considering Netherlands is a small and urbanized country (one of the top 15 worldwide), and 70-75% of the population lived in the Randstaat limits (The megalopolis comprised of the 4 majors cities and subsidiaries) it's not exactly far fetched. Like Stefan mentioned, the cities are within 90 minutes maximum each other. Actually an Olympic bid of the Randstaat would be like the Rhine-Ruhr mentioned before for Germany, but more compact and better developed to be honests.

This. It's not like India has a good chance anyway.

Yes, the bid is Barcelona Winter Olympics (Madrid doesn't have mountains close of the city). The Catalonian government made a proper bid. Now the question is about the preferences and political will related to both cities.

Going per numbers, Brazzaville is not exactly "worse" than Dakar to be honests. At least Brazzaville has a minimal sense of order (Not like Kinshasa). Anyway, I still wonder why Morocco or Botswana hadn't raise hand to this now.

The last time I revise geography, that was Barcelona NOT Madrid, and considering the recent political swift... Probably Madrid 2032 will fight against the Catalonians (again).

I said before and I will repeat. If South Korea was alone, right now I would put Seoul as favourite (regarding Brisbane, Madrid or any other). Seoul has almost anything on board, the political will is there and infrastructure on first level. But joining Pyongyang?

Interesting, even with the menace of a potential crash, currently the financial lines of Spain (in macroeconomic aspects) look much better this time than in 2009 (And even better comparing Italy, which has a stagnant economy but still will host the Winter Olympics). And reading news about it, this time, the main football clubs of Madrid seemed to have more involvement in the bid, which can be solved some $$ and logistics aspects. The question is about the political line considering the current Parliament... But then, if this works in Italy with full antagonic parties...

However her party has in some polls 13% of vote share and more recently I read some grassroot opposition on social network, citing Gold Coast 2018 as a clear no.

Good news of the bid, the opposition came from an "outsider" mostly known for her xenophobic and anti-Aboriginal campaigns.

Yep. I Morocco will be the back up plan. But srly, Africa is having a terrible record so far (Durban at the Commonwealth Games and now Dakar).

If Morocco doesn't came to save the face, Africa will be forbidden to host Olympics in generations ahead.

How the idea to prevent floods is being used as part of the Olympic bid, instead being something essential for the current megalopolis with the biggest risk of sinking...

Well, at least for 2032 has the big elephant in the room out at once. And still the bid is practical. For some reason, I gave better odds now to Madrid - Honest. They may have better cards this time. Now, it's checking how to play. Ironically, if there's something the chimera parties right now are looking is precisely the Castillian pride (even with different prospects). If the Spanish Olympic Committee learnt the lesson and show more humilty, the parties will back the bid Think like the Italian political puzzle seen during the 2026 Winter Olympics (which was capable to join La Lega, PD and M5S even when they were in war for other instances).

And let's not forget, 1984 had different standards based on the venues and sports and also, we had 140 nations with 6829 athletes. In Rio 2016 we have 207 nations and 11238 athletes. This time, a proper mass public transport is required. Of course, Los Angeles can deliver, but this isn't a small issue, when part of the core bid was precisely the metro system.

Also, I guess if they want to use as reference per French culture, this will be the main song: If using iconic movies:

Considering everything on board in that region and the damage caused for them to monopolizing the sport events, we may declare no Dohaha soon.

The first step for 2030 race has been made

Well, clearly the key main Acchiles knee related to Los Angeles (and that's beyond the Olympics) was related to the mass transportation. Comparing to other global cities around the world (London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul as Olympic host cities) and even inside USA (New York City for example), Los Angeles really needed a proper plan to deliver a good metro system. I guess the most important lines will be made, but yep, doing 9 lines, even with 8 years of distance can be too much to handle.