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  1. yoshi
    Yup, I like this guy. He seems to be just the right level of crazy. This is looking good... https://www.francetvinfo.fr/les-jeux-olympiques/paris-2024/portrait-je-n-y-connaissais-rien-comment-thomas-jolly-est-devenu-le-metteur-en-scene-de-la-ceremonie-d-ouverture-des-jeux-olympiques-de-paris-2024_6391246.html
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    A lot of stuff but what if anything did we really learn? It sounds from those two articles like this has really helped the Victoria Park proposal?
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    Expecting to wake up to a lot of action in this thread - if this is anything like our select committee hearings (sounds like it is) this could be spectacular. Not sure if it'll be in a good or bad way though
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    Told you this would happen! As soon as it becomes real with the torch the cynics start to melt, just like London (iirc the Olympia ceremony in 2012 was a bit of a non event to our media, it started getting attention when it hit Land's End, so you're starting early). The problem for the IOC getting cities interested is that this feeling in the immediate build up is very hard to describe until it happens & everyone realises they like it. One of the IOC's rare masterstrokes was giving all the 2012 candidates a stop on the Athens torch relay - the coverage of that was the first time I was aware of London 2012, & it really seemed to capture the imagination. Bring on May 8!
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    Trust the Olympics to choose a day in April when it's lovely & sunny (if chilly) in Britain (well parts) while it's cloudy & windy in Greece Didn't know that about Sydney, it didn't turn out badly for them - hopefully it goes just as well. At long last, an Olympic torch is on its way to Paris
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    If Bach put half the effort into getting bids for the Olympic Games as he puts into his bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, we might have a functional bid process & shorter speeches...
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    Well I guess we'll find out fairly soon whether there's a new 'plan A' when they come to close the quays & begin building the stands by the river. If the Trocadero plan is the new plan A, they presumably won't do that. Like I say I really hope it gets done in full, even if they can still do some performances at the Trocadero
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    I'm not really sure what's been announced today? The existence of a plan B we already knew about? The existence of the plan C? On Sky Sports News earlier their athletics reporter was practically saying the Trocadero only plan is what's going to happen, which I assume isn't right. I really hope it gets to happen as planned.
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    Well I don't actually know where in Rhone Alpes the main snow sports area for 2030 is - I was kinda assuming it'd be where the last Winter Olympics in the region was. I guess actually the best place to have a historical connection for the opening would be Chamonix - backdrop of Mont Blanc too.
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    I hold my hand up if Nice does have all or most of the arenas it needs for the indoor sports Obviously the mountain sports aren't a problem. Are any of the snow sports due to be held near Albertville? That'd be a good place for the opening... again.
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    As someone who doesn't follow F1 as a sport but does like playing the games, if you can seriously put a bobsleigh track on the Monaco Grand Prix circuit, tunnel and all, it would genuinely be one of the greatest things to ever happen at the Winter Olympics
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    I'm surprised it's not the opening that'll be in Nice - there's that lovely stadium there they had the Rugby World Cup in. Any chance of Monaco, bobsleigh capital of the Mediterranean, involved in anything? (The whole 2030 process has been a bit of a mess - I bet the IOC almost wished they could zap LA 2028 so Salt Lake could just get it . I'm intrigued by Nice, I hope it works out but 5 & a half years isn't very long when you're building an Olympics from zero...)
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    This is a particularly exciting buildup, it's certainly worked for that . I take it from the fact you haven't come on here to say that Thomas Jolly has taken over Rouen means they're not doing that & are instead going straight to Paris whenever the rehearsals start there, presumably the start of July like you say.
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    They actually are closing the bridges?! Good luck to anyone trying to drive or bus across Paris lol. Maybe they will be able to keep it secret!
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    How do they propose closing the quays will keep things secret when you still need to have the bridges open . Unless they're putting temporary grandstands on the quays. I also assume they won't be closing the Eiffel Tower in the leadup so people on that will still get a clear view of the building work...
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    You can almost hear the IOC trying to think of ways they could get round the 2 year gap & just give SLC 2030. That'd give France more time to prepare or even open Switzerland for 34, & avoid 2 European Games in a row - far more sensible for all concerned if it wasn't for the gap. Could they get around it? Edit: also interesting mentions of 2050 & 70 - suggests to me that if they go ahead with the semi-permanent rotation pool, there'd only be 4-5 cities in it...
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    Yeah they don't really fit with each other - it can be replicated across the Commonwealth, in all the cities that have... recently hosted the Games anyway . Also lol at the fact that Melbourne (city) could've done exactly this very easily... (I'm wondering where they'll put athletics, it took ages to put that platform into Hampden, although it seemed to work very well)
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    But who on earth is gonna want to host an Olympics if they can't get a legacy out of what they do spend?! A circular stadium in Brisbane is gonna be used all year, every year. Your starting position is one that basically every other possible host could only dream of. Best of all, you have to build a new one in the early 30s anyway! They've admitted that! Coatesy must be an absolute genius to conclude that "needs a new circular stadium in the early 30s" & "hosting the Olympics in the early 30s" are entirely separate problems that can't be solved together
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    I could see them doing something like that in order to give 2030 to Ghana - unless Ghana's offer is based on keeping all the African Games stuff up. Like I've said before, I know Canada and London are considered the obvious choices for the centennial but there'd be something poetic about it being the one where it finally gets to Africa. Basically they should ask Ghana what's best for them & work around that - it's time.
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    I was just going on the general perception tbh, which is why "one of the best" is a better phrase - it is of course subjective, & I would think for almost all of us it'd be our first remembered games, plus any home games for anyone who's experienced one. Doesn't change the fact that Brisbane are being spectacularly daft if they don't draw on the knowledge & experience of those who were around in 2000...
  21. yoshi
    Well it's frankly well past time for Africa to have its Commonwealth Games, so I hope Ghana can pull it off How did the African Games go, was it a success?
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    As you probably know because I've said before, as a non-Australian whose first Olympic memories are of Sydney, & who's well aware that even now they're still regarded as one of, if not the, best Games ever held, I find it utterly baffling if organisers & politicians in Brisbane really aren't talking or listening to the people who made Sydney happen. They're in the same country, & not only is their knowledge gonna be in the reports, transfers & archives of Sydney, many of them are still very much alive & willing to help directly... Even from afar, I know Queensland has a reputation for being a bit parochial but to not ask for advice when the chance is there to learn from the best?! Truly gaga (Also I'd have thought the private sector would be all over opportunities from this, even the stadium itself. Who wouldn't want to get involved in Olympic development in somewhere growing like Brisbane/GC is? You obviously know how to handle mixed-sector development...)
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    I was going to post the BBC report on this earlier but I forgot. I'd be very intrigued to hear who these are. I can only assume it's someone who wants the bribe the CGF are offering & aren't sufficiently bothered by the unfortunate overtones of the history of it to turn it down like Singapore & Malaysia. And I can't imagine it's anywhere in the UK because we'd have heard something, or Australia because our members there would've heard something. Toronto maybe? Would NZ be more favourable with the new government in now?
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    If stadiums count as temples to Zeus maybe we should tell Brisbane
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    I never imagined Zeus having such a potty mouth! What is the Almighty One's proposal for deciding host cities?
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