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2018 Winter Olympics

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by HackyMcHack, Jul 6, 2011.

  1. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Fixed!
     
  2. crimsonace

    crimsonace Well-Known Member

    I'm really looking forward to getting up at 3 a.m. to watch the hockey tournament on whatever obscure cable channel NBC decides to farm it out to that year.

    In reality, this is going to be kind of neat for us. We have an adopted son from China, and we spent a few days in Beijing three months before the 2008 Games (and saw a lot of the Oly sites), so we kind of re-lived the trip watching the TV coverage. By 2018, we will probably also have made a similar trip to South Korea, so another chance to have a vicarious cultural journey for two weeks.
     
  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Ebersol did get the IOC to move swimming to the AM in Beijing so who knows - should get live skilling in the East Coast.
     
  4. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    Skilling?

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  5. Football_Bat

    Football_Bat Well-Known Member

    Wie, bitte? :)
     
  6. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    Assuming you're a man, I hope you can find a way to manage...
     
  7. Boomer7

    Boomer7 Active Member

    Ebersol's replacement said a couple of weeks back that, beginning in 2014, every event would be live on some NBC platform. So they've finally gotten the message.
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Supposedly the USOC and IOC are ironing out their differences and 2020 isn't off the table for a potential U.S. bid.
    Hell, they should give Chicago another shot - I imagine their local leaders were a little pissed to realize they had not shot due to the IOC/USOC spat.
     
  9. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    It's not off the table but timing makes it unlikely unless the IOC changes the deadline for 2020 bid submission from the current date of Sept. 1, 2011.

    Phil Hersh, who is close becoming the last full-time Olympic writer at a US newspaper, had a piece on this a few days ago:

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/globetrotting/chi-us-bid-for-2020-summer-games-very-unlikely-but-still-possible-20110630,0,5215853.column

    I guess it's possible the IOC could change the deadline though. Rome and Madrid have already submitted bids.
     
  10. suburbia

    suburbia Active Member

    IOC/USOC spat or not, it's clear that these major worldwide sporting events (including the World Cup) are awarded based on who greases the decision makers' palms the best. How else does friggin Qatar get the World Cup?

    Why should any U.S. city spend the kind of money a legit Olympic bid requires just so the corrupt committee members can jerk them around? The millions of dollars required for a bid, let alone the many billions of dollars required to actually put on the games, could be used much better in many of our cities.

    Did hosting the 1996 games improve Atlanta? Did hosting the 1984 games improve Los Angeles?
     
  11. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    The 84 games made a nice profit that funded an endowment for youth sports in Southern California. Hard to view those games as anything but a giant success.
     
  12. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Exactly. Probably the most important Games of the post-WWII era. No one wanted the thing. Mired in debt and boycotts. Yes, '84 was boycotted, but it printed money (and continues to produce to this day) and saved the Olympic movement.

    Guessing there won't be a bid for 2020, but perhaps 2022 in Reno/Tahoe (good luck) or Denver.
     
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