B_Doughtie wrote:
So when is LA, Paris, Tokyo and X city going to finally become permanent host cities...(insert your own cities if you like, you get the point)
Honestly I prefer stand alone sports and their organic World Championships, like cycling. Also sport-specific like the World Cup. It used to be that I preferred the "romance" and nostalgia of the Olympics but at this point it's lost its charm because of all the corruption and bribery and cheating and sexual abuse by NGBs and Federations and whatnot. Also the medal asymmetry... swimming and track get multiple medals for what is essentially same task by the same energy system, and then relays of said redundant tasks, and triathlon (for example) gets one or now two.
If I were boss, I would have America host it every four years, and every time build a purpose-built million-citizen city, in the middle of nowhere, perfectly designed and "green" and laid out Euro style, to be backfilled by immigrants and people moving around the US internally, in an attempt to boost our population and be more competitive on the world scene.
I think the fallout will be, to get back on topic, that some people will realize they're not missing as much as they thought, some athletes will be devastated, some people will need the distraction from the grief and strain of COVID, some cities will rethink the calculus of hosting and bribing, content providers will try to produce Olympic-level content as we pandemic-binge said content.
It's a mixed bag.
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