mpjmcevoy 260 Posted January 4 #1161 Share Posted January 4 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrv86 3,007 Posted January 4 #1162 Share Posted January 4 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,628 Posted January 14 #1163 Share Posted January 14 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 Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 260 Posted January 14 #1164 Share Posted January 14 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,650 Posted February 1 #1165 Share Posted February 1 Conrrado Mosocoso won the online fan vote for The World Games Athlete of the Year Josh 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,650 Posted February 1 #1166 Share Posted February 1 Lima and Asuncion are officially the two candidate cities in contention to host the 2027 Pan American Games. Josh and dullard 2 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,650 Posted February 6 #1167 Share Posted February 6 Some Arctic Winter Games news… “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 260 Posted February 8 #1168 Share Posted February 8 Looking increasingly nailed on for Istanbul for the 2027 European Games. no word yet on the 2026 European Championships or Commonwealth Games. https://gamesbids.com/eng/other-games-bids/eoc-set-to-award-2027-european-games-to-istanbul-madrid-encouraged-to-bid-for-future-edition/ Josh and dullard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,650 Posted February 9 #1169 Share Posted February 9 Logo reveal for the 2026 CAC Games. Fer GUA 1 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpjmcevoy 260 Posted February 9 #1170 Share Posted February 9 On 2/8/2024 at 1:09 AM, mpjmcevoy said: Looking increasingly nailed on for Istanbul for the 2027 European Games. no word yet on the 2026 European Championships or Commonwealth Games. https://gamesbids.com/eng/other-games-bids/eoc-set-to-award-2027-european-games-to-istanbul-madrid-encouraged-to-bid-for-future-edition/ Right on cue, rumblings from Australia - seems Commonwealth Games Aus are determined to get the event on in one form or another, probably on a dispersed regional model (which oddly is the direction of travel for CWSport anyway) - so big ticket.moneyraising sports (basically ~Athletics, Sevens, Cricket, Swimming and possibly gymnastics) will be distributed among existing venues in Aussie and New Zealand cities, while Island nations will get a few nice locally popular events that aren't too taxing venue and accomodation wise- weightlifting in Samoa, etc. Perhaps even Rugby Leaugue 9's in Papua NG. If that was used as a springboard for a Global Centenary version of the same in 2030, and an African or South Asian regional model for 2034, that might create a way to contain spot costs to keep the event viable, provide hosting opportunities for smaller nations, and even leverage fundng into those smaller nations from big sponsors - creating a decent pop-op/modular 1000 seat venue in St Lucia, or a popup velodrome in Trinidad, might be a better use of resources than another 40,000 stadium in Australia, England or Canada Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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