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When bidding what are the dates that the IOC mandates the games be held in?

For summer is it June 15 to Sept 30

and winter Dec 1st to Feb 28th

Ive always been curious.

i would liek to see a Texas bid in the future, but having it past july would kill everyone in the marathon race.

But if it could be May 20 to June 11th, that could be very pleasant and comfortable games.

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When bidding what are the dates that the IOC mandates the games be held in?

For summer is it June 15 to Sept 30

and winter Dec 1st to Feb 28th

Ive always been curious.

i would liek to see a Texas bid in the future, but having it past july would kill everyone in the marathon race.

But if it could be May 20 to June 11th, that could be very pleasant and comfortable games.

They're kinda hard-and-fast rules...dates which are most convenient to the majority of the world. So indeed for summer, it's about as early as July 15th and no later than Sept 30 as you said. Another factor determining the Summer date is (1) the US political conventions because they happen the same year-- the Olympics usually happen in the middle of the 2; and the can't go later than Sept 30 because the World Series would be closing in...and NBC wants an unrivalled field because it pays BILLIONS for these Games. Same thing for the other broadcasters around the world. Plus, there is the school calendar which crowded host cities have to contend with.

Winter dates are usually determined by the winter federations, i.e., working around the training skeds of the Winter athletes.

The whole calendar is all very intricately worked out.

Also, think Texas in 2150s if it's going to happen at all. ;)

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So the IOC has no "Official" set standard Time frame for either WOG or SOG?

Following article 33.3 of the Olympic chart : "The dates of the Olympic Games are determined by the IOC Executive Board."

But they used to use the regular international sport calendar.... as they showed by rejecting the Doha 2016 bid that proposed to organised the Games during the Northern Autumn !

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So the IOC has no "Official" set standard Time frame for either WOG or SOG?

Uhmmm...I think they're called Summer AND Winter Games for a reason. And if you also haven't noticed, Sydney had to host a "Summer" Games in its spring. So the southern world HAS to adapt to the "seasons" of the north.

Or you could barge into an IOC meeting and tell them your ideas. ;)

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Coincidently ALL of the 22 editions of winter Olympics were/will be held in February. :huh:

As I said, "international winter sport calendar" used to have its main events in February....

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As I said, "international winter sport calendar" used to have its main events in February....

February is traditionally chosen and every four years the winter sports calendar has NO big international events not to interfere with the Games.

The main reason for this choice is quite natural though - December of the Olympic year is actually a different calendar season and January is usually a slow month after the Christmas and New Year holidays.

The tradition is so strong that the bidding cities now do not risk suggesting any other dates than February.

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As I said, "international winter sport calendar" used to have its main events in February....

The Seoul Games went from September 17th thru October 2nd. I believe it was to avoid the worst of the Seoul heat. As I recall, the NFL schedule made TV time rather congested that year. In those days it was NBC and CBS with the Sunday games and ABC with Monday night football. NBC and CBS would sort of trade off between morning and afternoon and days when they showed 2 games. Those were days before the network had enough clout to affect the scheduling of the games.

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When bidding what are the dates that the IOC mandates the games be held in?

For summer is it June 15 to Sept 30

and winter Dec 1st to Feb 28th

Ive always been curious.

i would liek to see a Texas bid in the future, but having it past july would kill everyone in the marathon race.

But if it could be May 20 to June 11th, that c new york city asian escorts ould be very pleasant and comfortable games.

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Winter dates are usually determined by the winter federations, i.e., working around the training skeds of the Winter athletes.

What is this post??? :blink:

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What is this post??? :blink:

I think its really fuckign stupid that the Olympic schedule is a whore to sports federations.

How damn retarded do you have to be to not alter the schedule with 7 years notice. Im sure some sports federation has held its championships for 20 years on Oct 8, but Dubai wante the olympics to go from Oct 1 to 15th, They give you 7 damn years notice and they cant alter their schedule by 2 weeks? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Besides the TV schedule thing, the biggest hiccup for a Southern Hemisphere games is the federations....why? I strongly doubt youre doing the Super G in Innsbruck in August, or hopping moguls in Vail in early June. So whats the deal. I mean its not liek they printed a mess load of materials and sold tickets for their events in 2018 by now. So why not alter the schedule? Arrogance? Hubris? The US put a man on the moon in 8 years, but the ski federation cant change their competition schedule 7 years in advance?

THis is actually making me mad to write, the SH has a sh*t Ton on good snow, it would be a shame for them to be permanantly neglected due to beurocratic assholes.

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Without the sport federations, there are no Olympics.

Get over the idea of Winter Olympics in the Southern Hemisphere. They don't have enough athletes competing to screw it up for everyone else.

What is best for the athletes must always come first. Not some fan's desire to have an exotic or local host.

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Get over the idea of Winter Olympics in the Southern Hemisphere. They don't have enough athletes competing to screw it up for everyone else.

Better tell that to New Zealand and Chile.

Winter Games obviously MUST have snow (ice can be handled indoors). But the "Summer Games" don't really have to be held in summer, they could be held in the Spring or Fall, just that the IOC now requires them to be between July and September. Would we be calling the Games of the Olympiad the "Summer Games" today if the Olympic Winter Games (which we now call the "Winter Olympics" off hand) never came into existence in 1924?

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No need to tell New Zealand or Chile anything. Neither have mounted or expressed any serious bid for the Winter Olympics. And in 2006, New Zealand sent 18 athletes (their largest ever). Chile sent 9. The best Chilean athlete came in 30th. The best New Zealand placing was 10th - one in men's skeleton, the other in men's curling which lost every game and placed last.

These are not the kind of performances that merit changing the entire schedule and having a host country spend some $2 billion.

You can dream all you want, but the cold hard facts do not favour a Southern Hemisphere Winter Olympics.

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