Olympic Revenue Deal Positions U.S. to Host Games

Highway 40 would be a nightmare. Best bet would be to run trains up there if it were used as a venue.

 

I don't know the geography, but I'm assuming that at some point in the intervening 10 years they could figure out a way to build an interstate. Salt Lake in '92 didn't look ready to handle traffic either.

 

That Vancouver is a real little resort town.

 

Winter Games are going to be held in bigger cities because figure skating and hockey have become cash cow events and one needs a major league sized arena to make them so. At Lillehammer in '94, the figure skating, which was only the biggest story in the world because of Nancy and Tonya, was held in a small temporary building where they held short-track speed skating, too, because Norwegians think figure skating blows. I really liked Norway.
But for a U.S. city to get the winters, you'd have to get both its NHL and NBA franchises to agree to three weeks plus on the road in midseason. A tricky proposition.
Boston has ice rinks galore, but the ski areas where you can be SURE of enough snow are 3 hours away. Not feasible.

 

Vancouver is the type of Winter Olympic bid you're going to see more of. Indoor events in a major city, outdoor events a couple of hours away in the mountains. Salt Lake and Torino were that way to an extent and Sochi will be as well. The 2018 host, Pyeongchang, is actually a county in Korea, not a city.

The days of Lake Placid, Lillehammer, Albertville, etc. as Winter Games hosts are pretty much over.

 

Salt Lake wants the games again as well.

 

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.

The trend has already started. That's why a cities like Denver and Vancouver are in better position to get the games.

 

The London Games may eventually cost more than ten times the original estimate.

Which American city wants some of that action?

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/price-of-london-olympics

 

Please stop.

The youngest great city in the world -- Chicago -- still hasn't had the opportunity to host the summer games.

Got aced by Rio (the other great waterfront skyline), but not dead, yet.

ST. LOUIS had one, for Chrissake.

Giddyup.

 

Chicago won't bid again.

 

No city should want it. Vancouver will be paying this off for decades.

It was an absolute blast and run as well as it could have been but it is a financial mess.

 

Not as convenient? Tahoe? It's only 15 minutes away from everywhere.