You're an Olympian in Beijing? We tell you how to think

They're just hurdles then.

 

The LA Coliseum renovated in 1993, at the behest of Al Davis. They got rid of the track completely, and built permanent seating where the track was, to get the crowd closer to the field. A year later, he left anyway.

The Home Depot Center has a track complex, but it doesn't hold 60,000 (and looks like it holds maybe 3,000, though I know that number is way off.

Scratch LA from the list. The city even has a brand-new velodrome at HDC for cycling, but no suitable track complex.

 

What about the Rose Bowl? Could they swap what they did in 84 and have soccer in the Coliseum and track in the Rose Bowl?

 

people, the games aren't going anywhere. Maybe if there is a repeat of Tianamen Square, but that didn't stop the Olympics before.....See Mexico City 19-68. Between 200 and 300 student demonstrators were shot just 10 days before the games, but the show went on.

 

10 days vs 4.5 months, and 40 years later?
Sorry,could happen.

 

Max: "Party like it's 1936!"

 

Whether the Olympics are in China or moved, I think all the US athletes should - if they don't boycott altogether - show up in Tibetan monk robes for the opening ceremony.

 

I seriously doubt a U.S. boycott of the Olympics would be very productive, nor have the desired effect.

 

Great idea - let's see that quisling Rogge try to throw a whole team out of there. He should feel damned lucky if there aren't many nations boycotting. The U.S. should've done something like that in Moscow instead of boycotting.

 

Right. There's no way in hell they could logistically make the switch on four months' notice.