Which Countries deserve to host the Winter Olympics Games ?

[AlFHg 330]

I think that Southern emisphere will deserve it, in general, although it would mean to change a lot of calendars and so on; (personally I think that to be able to spread and develop, a lot of sport should plan events all over the year everywhere in the world like tennis does, so in a relatively midterm future, this is not going to be a real problem). 

In case this happens, I think Chile would be a nice choice.

[Wanderer 1,738]

AUS/NZ is a dream option, still. And I agree, Chile could be very nice choice as well.

 

I am rooting for Slovenia/Slovakia combination though just for fun   How many athletes may make mistake and go to one instead to another country  

[heywoodu 15,353]

I'd love a South American Winter Olympics, but I doubt there's enough money to basically build everything from scratch. I mean, there's some alpine skiing venues and a snowboard cross course? Sure, cross-country skiing and in two places biathlon, but those facilities are rather....let's say, amateuristic. In my opinion it only gets a tiny bit realistic once stuff like ski jumping hills and sliding tracks can be built, deconstructed and moved to another place relatively cheaply.

 

NZ/Australia has a billion times more chance  

Edited January 31, 2019 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 1/30/2019 at 10:11 AM, Wanderer said:

AUS/NZ is a dream option, still. And I agree, Chile could be very nice choice as well.

 

I am rooting for Slovenia/Slovakia combination though just for fun   How many athletes may make mistake and go to one instead to another country  

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Just the dumb ones who don't look at the name of their city  

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

If you want a winter olympic outside of Europe/ East Asia/ N-A you'd probably need to get rid first of the sledding and skating sports 

Edited January 31, 2019 by De_Gambassi

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 1/31/2019 at 12:58 PM, De_Gambassi said:

If you want a winter olympic outside of Europe/ East Asia/ N-A you'd probably need to get rid first of the sledding and skating sports 

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That might not be necessary, considering one other continent already has medal candidates and another one is well on it's way to having them within a few years  Might help in getting enough interest to have one rink

 

Plus an indoor sports hall can always be used anywhere, if not for any ice sport there's a ton of other sports one can do inside. Sliding tracks are a much bigger issue, which is why I referred to the plan of having ice-like plastic modular tracks that could be built - and after the event moved somewhere else - for a fraction of the current prices.

Edited January 31, 2019 by heywoodu

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

  On 1/31/2019 at 1:01 PM, heywoodu said:

That might not be necessary, considering one other continent already has medal candidates and another one is well on it's way to having them within a few years  Might help in getting enough interest to have one rink

 

Plus an indoor sports hall can always be used anywhere, if not for any ice sport there's a ton of other sports one can do inside. Sliding tracks are a much bigger issue, which is why I referred to the plan of having ice-like plastic modular tracks that could be built - and after the event moved somewhere else - for a fraction of the current prices.

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Do you have a link on that ?

[heywoodu 15,353]

  On 1/31/2019 at 1:04 PM, De_Gambassi said:

 

Do you have a link on that ?

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https://www.theengineer.co.uk/bobsled-winter-olympics-plastic/

[Function CR Lee 468]

I'd like to see FINLAND to host a winter Olympic Games.

[bestmen 2,831]

on Mars they have ice mountains during the year