Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 News

[heywoodu 16,146]

3 hours ago, dcro said:

The Peng statement was a new low though.

 

Far below anything they have done previously.

I think I missed one, I only saw this:

https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-statement-on-the-situation-of-peng-shuai

 

Which is too soft, to say the least, but definitely not lower than anything they've done previously.

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3 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

I am not sure any democratic country  will bid for a future games. The process for 2030 could well collapse soon. 

Since IOC awarded Brisbane the SOG without any bidding process that won't be a problem for Winter Games either.

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2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Since IOC awarded Brisbane the SOG without any bidding process that won't be a problem for Winter Games either.

What happens if no one applies. Or only problematic counties apply. Can the games survive more problematic hosts.

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11 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

What happens if no one applies. Or only problematic counties apply. Can the games survive more problematic hosts.

 

OG survived two global wars, political boycotts (like who remembers the African boycott of '76 anymore or which countries actually boycotted the '56 games and why) and multiple terrorist attacks (again, who actually remembers the '96 bombing if only Clint Eastwood didn't make a movie about it lately?). They will be fine. If the choice comes down to host OG in Qatar or don't host OG at all, it will be a simple one indeed

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9 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

I am not sure any democratic country  will bid for a future games. The process for 2030 could well collapse soon. 

Salt Lake City is ready to jump all over 2030.  So the IOC has absolutely nothing to worry about.  They have the United States and maybe if Sapporo can get public support (much easier said than done), they're an option as well.  

 

3 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

OG survived two global wars, political boycotts (like who remembers the African boycott of '76 anymore or which countries actually boycotted the '56 games and why) and multiple terrorist attacks (again, who actually remembers the '96 bombing if only Clint Eastwood didn't make a movie about it lately?). They will be fine. If the choice comes down to host OG in Qatar or don't host OG at all, it will be a simple one indeed

Different this time around though.  A lot of the political strife they dealt with in the 70s wasn't of their own making.  These days, there's a lot of animosity towards the IOC that isn't going away any time soon.  Cities and countries are flat out rejecting them.  For well over a decade, we've seen the field of interested cities slowly dwindle, especially when it comes to the Winter Olympics.  As long as they have 1 willing partner each time, that's all that matters, so they'll probably be fine.

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6 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

 

Salt Lake City is ready to jump all over 2030.  So the IOC has absolutely nothing to worry about.  They have the United States and maybe if Sapporo can get public support (much easier said than done), they're an option as well.  

 

Different this time around though.  A lot of the political strife they dealt with in the 70s wasn't of their own making.  These days, there's a lot of animosity towards the IOC that isn't going away any time soon.  Cities and countries are flat out rejecting them.  For well over a decade, we've seen the field of interested cities slowly dwindle, especially when it comes to the Winter Olympics.  As long as they have 1 willing partner each time, that's all that matters, so they'll probably be fine.

There's so much money to be earned that someone will always take a bite at the cherry. FIFA and IOC have had bad press for years and maybe Americans don't really realize that since they don't care about soccer and NBC hardly shows anything not involving US athletes that for them it sounds different than it really is. There's not a snowball's chance in hell a country like Norway will boycott the Winter Games and since they are not member of EU they don't have to listen to those buffoons either

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1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

There's so much money to be earned that someone will always take a bite at the cherry. FIFA and IOC have had bad press for years and maybe Americans don't really realize that since they don't care about soccer and NBC hardly shows anything not involving US athletes that for them it sounds different than it really is. There's not a snowball's chance in hell a country like Norway will boycott the Winter Games and since they are not member of EU they don't have to listen to those buffoons either

Costs a lot of money to earn that money.  Especially for a Winter Olympics which require a lot of specialized venues that many cities or countries don't necessarily have ready to go.  Not so easy to find that city/country, particularly considering how awful the IOC is these days.  Of course we won't see a boycott.  But we did see Norway show interest in hosting the 2022 Olympics, only for public support to drop and for their bid committee to scoff at the IOC's miles long list of demands.  I'm still surprised they managed to find 2 European bids for 2026 after all of them dropped out of the running for 2022.

 

LOL that you buy into the "NBC hardly shows anything not involving the US" narrative because that is a giant heaping pile of bullshit.  Yea, they'll promote the hell out of the biggest stars and occasionally shove certain sports to cable, but the American public is really dumb.  All the people who said "I can't find what I want to watch" probably spent about 14 seconds and then gave up.  Didn't take a masters degree to know when things are on and if you factor in cable, there were tons of sports that didn't involve the United States.

 

As for soccer, speaking of NBC, that's an awful lot of money for a sport Americans don't care about.. Premier League, NBC Sports Extend TV Rights Contract in Deal Reportedly Worth $2.7B

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Right. But Premier League isn't the Alpha & Omega of soccer. How many Americans actually know what Norwich City colors are for instance? Or such a club like Norwich even exists? And this is a really low-hanging fruit.

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173 out of 193 UN member states cosposored olympic truce resolution for Beijing 2022. Well done China! 

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2 hours ago, opruh said:

173 out of 193 UN member states cosposored olympic truce resolution for Beijing 2022. Well done China! 

Some important countries refused to through.