Other Multi-Sport Games Discussion Thread

[LuizGuilherme 332]

I think is impossible for São Paulo to build a Olympic Village in less than 4 years.

 

The plan is to bid for the 2031 Panamerican, make a great event and bid again for the 2040 Olympic Games.

 

 

Edited January 3, 2024 by LuizGuilherme

[intoronto 6,401]

Paraguay seems very keen here. A country with the 10th of the GDP of Colombia seems like a disaster waiting to happen, especially since the 2025 junior pan ams are going there. It's either going to be them or Lima (they seem very keen and host a lot of events) or Santiago b2b.

[mrv86 3,240]

1 hour ago, intoronto said:

Paraguay seems very keen here. A country with the 10th of the GDP of Colombia seems like a disaster waiting to happen, especially since the 2025 junior pan ams are going there. It's either going to be them or Lima (they seem very keen and host a lot of events) or Santiago b2b.

Agree. Paraguay is a no go for the "senior" Panam Games.

 

It's either return to Lima or Miami, if they gather local support. 

 

I'd love to have them back in Guadalajara, most of the venues remain in place, the exception being the athletics stadium (although they could use temporal stands in the small venue they had for last year's Gay Games) and the athletes village (but with the local governments being in a vertical rise bonanza, it could be solved with one or two urbanizations).

 

 

[mrv86 3,240]

3 hours ago, LDOG said:

I already said this, PAG won't last long. There's just not enough interest to justify the investment. I see a future with only SAG and CACG standing on this side of the world or maybe PAG survives with some form of multiple country hosting.

 

 

I think this will go to Sao Paulo. Read some mentioning Miami since pan am sports is there.

 

 

The main problem, as with the Olympics, is the demand for large, new state of the art venues, plus the costs of building an athletes village, that could only realistically building a main one, with smaller "satellite" village as part of urban renovation/public housing proyects.

 

Other than that, I think that regional projects could work better, with 2 or 3 main cities in the same country hosting the events.

[Griff88 2,008]

3 hours ago, mrv86 said:

The main problem, as with the Olympics, is the demand for large, new state of the art venues, plus the costs of building an athletes village, that could only realistically building a main one, with smaller "satellite" village as part of urban renovation/public housing proyects.

 

Other than that, I think that regional projects could work better, with 2 or 3 main cities in the same country hosting the events.

Yeah they can take examples from SEA Games hosts (where the participation is around 5k-6k athletes) starting to use regional hosting rather than focusing everything in one city/metropolitan area. Philippines (2019) and Vietnam (2021) spread the sports in 5 to 6 provinces. Using readily available hotel rooms instead of building a centralized athletes village is also already a norm in the Games.

[mpjmcevoy 375]

4 hours ago, mrv86 said:

The main problem, as with the Olympics, is the demand for large, new state of the art venues, plus the costs of building an athletes village, that could only realistically building a main one, with smaller "satellite" village as part of urban renovation/public housing proyects.

 

Other than that, I think that regional projects could work better, with 2 or 3 main cities in the same country hosting the events.

The main thing for all these events is to step back from the 'Planet Olympic' gigantism and 'monumentalism'.  Outside the middle east and parts of China - and possibly India - those days are over. We have all the venues we need, it's a matter of making the numbers work on a sensible scale.

 

The Munich 2022 European Championships event cost 125 Million - a lot, but a fraction of the full Games cost. The Birmingham AL World Games 2022 cost about 80 million. The Billion pound events are taking the mick.

[mrv86 3,240]

16 hours ago, mrv86 said:

I’d love to have them back in Guadalajara, most of the venues remain in place, the exception being the athletics stadium (although they could use temporal stands in the small venue they had for last year's Gay Games) and the athletes village (but with the local governments being in a vertical rise bonanza, it could be solved with one or two urbanizations).

 

 

And the local authorities seem to back the idea of Guadalajara being considered as the replacement host:

 

https://x.com/for_ortega13/status/1742721175959023981?s=46&t=9vS5uQBNQ2F0H_cquGNQGQ

[intoronto 6,401]

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1143348/lima-joins-asuncion-submitting-2027panam

 

 

Looks like we would have our fave. Also have heard Panansports asked Canada to consider it (in particular Toronto) but it's not happening 

[mpjmcevoy 375]

2 hours ago, intoronto said:

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1143348/lima-joins-asuncion-submitting-2027panam

 

 

Looks like we would have our fave. Also have heard Panansports asked Canada to consider it (in particular Toronto) but it's not happening 

Canada don't seem to have much interest in multisports hosting at the moment all round...

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