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[Gianlu33 4,616]

From an Italian newspaper: "Watanabe proposes an unprecedented format of the Summer Olympics: to hold them simultaneously in five cities on five continents so as to ensure that they are televised 24 hours a day. The cities would be decided on the basis of several factors, the first of which would be the climatic aspect favourable to athletes, and ten disciplines would be held in each of them."

[Federer91 2,822]

3 hours ago, Gianlu33 said:

From an Italian newspaper: "Watanabe proposes an unprecedented format of the Summer Olympics: to hold them simultaneously in five cities on five continents so as to ensure that they are televised 24 hours a day. The cities would be decided on the basis of several factors, the first of which would be the climatic aspect favourable to athletes, and ten disciplines would be held in each of them."

Well, we definitely know who should not be elected for President. More so I want him to stand in front of the people and they collectively laugh in his face. 

[Monzanator 4,526]

I know TV is king but this is ridiculous. It's not 1956 anymore (and I still don't know why Australia didn't allow horses from other continents to enter).

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On 11/5/2024 at 2:03 PM, Dragon said:

India has proposed Kabbadi to be added to the Games if they win the bid for 2036

Also proposed is competitive Yoga and Kho kho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kho_kho

Not another RayGun please.

[intoronto 5,678]

On 12/25/2024 at 3:20 PM, Gianlu33 said:

From an Italian newspaper: "Watanabe proposes an unprecedented format of the Summer Olympics: to hold them simultaneously in five cities on five continents so as to ensure that they are televised 24 hours a day. The cities would be decided on the basis of several factors, the first of which would be the climatic aspect favourable to athletes, and ten disciplines would be held in each of them."

This might be unpopular but it would allow way more sports and quotas and cities to host at a lower cost. 

[Grassmarket 3,450]

On 12/25/2024 at 9:50 AM, Gianlu33 said:

From an Italian newspaper: "Watanabe proposes an unprecedented format of the Summer Olympics: to hold them simultaneously in five cities on five continents so as to ensure that they are televised 24 hours a day. The cities would be decided on the basis of several factors, the first of which would be the climatic aspect favourable to athletes, and ten disciplines would be held in each of them."

Have mercy, I can't last 18 days without sleep.  

Edited Thursday at 12:52 PM by Grassmarket

[JoshMartini007 2,547]

Yeah, I'm not entirely opposed of different host cities, but 24 hours of sports is not a good idea. Keep it to the 16-18 hour days.

[phelps 7,707]

On 12/26/2024 at 1:44 PM, intoronto said:

This might be unpopular but it would allow way more sports and quotas and cities to host at a lower cost. 

 

22 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah, I'm not entirely opposed of different host cities, but 24 hours of sports is not a good idea. Keep it to the 16-18 hour days.

we already have something like that...it's the regular world championships!

 

I mean, if we spread the Games all around the Globe, we completely lose the fascination of a single great multi-disciplinary event in a single place (more or less, given that some sports are always held far away from the actual Olympic City)

 

it's just another thing, it's not the Olympic Games anymore

 

if that's to be the case, I'd rather prefer the single championships to be well spread through the whole year, so to be able to watch the most of them without losing hours of sleep

[Monzanator 4,526]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

 

we already have something like that...it's the regular world championships!

 

I mean, if we spread the Games all around the Globe, we completely lose the fascination of a single great multi-disciplinary event in a single place (more or less, given that some sports are always held far away from the actual Olympic City)

 

it's just another thing, it's not the Olympic Games anymore

 

if that's to be the case, I'd rather prefer the single championships to be well spread through the whole year, so to be able to watch the most of them without losing hours of sleep

 

Exactly. UEFA tried this pan-European hosting idea with Euro 2020 and it proved to be a disaster not only from a logistics view. Safe to say that idea won't be brought back for decades again.

[JoshMartini007 2,547]

Euro 2020 had to deal with COVID and all of its restrictions, but it did showcase that there are diminishing returns for hosting in a large number of cities and in multiple countries.

 

The Olympics are already held outside of the host city for some sports. 2024 had 8 sports held partially or entirely outside of Paris. Is it really that crazy to have those sports clustered together in a second (or maybe third) area?