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[Grassmarket 3,586]

  11 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Just out of curiousity and besides personal preferences for this or that sport or event: what exactly, concretely, did Bach do that 'almost destroyed the Olympics'?

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All those grandiose & expensive Winter Games that made it impossible for smaller countries to bid I'd say.

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[Monzanator 4,598]

What smaller countries ever hosted the Olympics though? Sarajevo 1984 is probably the last I can imagine and they would never host one in XXI century. The "grandiose" switch definitely happened in Winter Games, I'd never predict China hosting WOG even in early 00s. But the costs have driven many Summer OG candidates away, the bidding process is dead and IOC basically has to beg anyone to even come forward or else we'd have every Summer OG in the Middle East for a very long time.

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  9 hours ago, Monzanator said:

What smaller countries ever hosted the Olympics though? Sarajevo 1984 is probably the last I can imagine and they would never host one in XXI century. The "grandiose" switch definitely happened in Winter Games, I'd never predict China hosting WOG even in early 00s. But the costs have driven many Summer OG candidates away, the bidding process is dead and IOC basically has to beg anyone to even come forward or else we'd have every Summer OG in the Middle East for a very long time.

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Even Norway & Sweden did not want to bid with all the nonsense, so we ended up with Sochi & Beijing.

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  9 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Even Norway & Sweden did not want to bid with all the nonsense, so we ended up with Sochi & Beijing.

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I can't tell about Sweden but with Norway Oslo/Holmenkollen would be the obvious choice but I've read many years ago already they won't bid for Winter OG no matter what. I can't really say what's the deal here. I know locals are fed up with the drunken parties around the area during World Cup events for a long time.

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  9 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

I can't tell about Sweden but with Norway Oslo/Holmenkollen would be the obvious choice but I've read many years ago already they won't bid for Winter OG no matter what. I can't really say what's the deal here. I know locals are fed up with the drunken parties around the area during World Cup events for a long time.

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No, Oslo definitely dropped out because of the ludicrous demands for Taylor Swift treatment by the IOC.  

 

Oslo bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

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It begins probably the most important week in the last decade for the Olympic movement. The IOC session in Greece will lead to the election of a new president, with Coventry representing the continuity candidate and several outsiders, some even histrionic. 

 

Today will begin with the executive board meeting, with reports from the NOCs and IFs