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if money weren't an issue, which city/country do you think is deserving of holding an Olympic game (either winter or summer)?

I say Toronto. I know I sound a bit biased since I'm kinda from there... but I say Toronto because this city has so much to offer. for the most part, the people are great, the politicians aren't too shabby (I thought Mayor Lastman was pretty awesome), and the city is just so diverse... its like having neighbourhoods that are their own nations... its pretty crazy.

yes we do have problems much like any other city, Toronto suffers from a growing youth/gun violence issue, but if you looked beyond that, if we looked at the courage and the aspirations, the hope of Torontonians, I think Toronto deserves to showcase itself to the world and host an Olympic game, notably a summer one. perhaps we'll see a Toronto 2020?

as well I'd like Africa and South America to host one, preferably in either Johannesburg or Cape Town, South Africa; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; or in Guyana.

what other cities in this world do you think should host the Olympic games?

Not Rio, no way.

If you wanted to hold the olympics in Brazil, I would vote for it to be held in Curitiba (http://www.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil/curitiba.html). (I don't live there by the way). Neither Rio nor São Paulo could cope with organising it. They have too many problems of their own to deal with.

Not Rio, no way.

If you wanted to hold the olympics in Brazil, I would vote for it to be held in Curitiba (http://www.uoregon.edu/~sergiok/brasil/curitiba.html). (I don't live there by the way). Neither Rio nor São Paulo could cope with organising it. They have too many problems of their own to deal with.

hmm.. Curitiba sounds interesting. I'm in favour of the lesser known places getting some recognition. :cool:

NO! Death to all Torontonians! If it would be held anywhere, it should be Victoria. :cool:

Edit: I am aware we're on an island, but who cares? :p

NO! Death to all Torontonians! If it would be held anywhere, it should be Victoria. :cool:

Edit: I am aware we're on an island, but who cares? :p

what does Victoria have that the world should see? (just a general question) :)

South America somewhere would be cool.

what does Victoria have that the world should see? (just a general question) :)
Vancouver Island has the last little bit of temperate forest left in the world...and that's about it...we've got a legislature full of the sleaziest politicans around...does that count?

Vancouver Island has the last little bit of temperate forest left in the world...and that's about it...we've got a legislature full of the sleaziest politicans around...does that count?

forests are always good. I want to visit BC, I've never been there... hell, I've never been anywhere outside the greater Toronto area... not even to Ottawa... I'm deprived, yes I know... :p

but yes, BC is reknowned for its natural beauty, its definitely on my must-visit list.

I say underground with the Mole people!

Leave it in Greece. It's a wealthy mans venue now.

Mole people!

Speaking with guesses here..

I think Philadelphia is trying to get the olympics to the city, although I bet all the shit would actually be built in Camden because, lets face it, Camden is a parking lot for some of Philly's.. stuff. Already have the aquarium there..

*shrugs*

I say Melbourne. The Commonwealth Games earlier in the year were held here with great success. We have the games infrastructure in place, very good public transport & we love our sport.

I say underground with the Mole people!
We must talk.;)

Wellington, New Zealand.

I live in London and everyone i know was very keen that Paris should get it not London - that way we wouldn't have to pay the taxes for it, we wouldn't be swampred with toursist and it would still be really easy to get to.

I'm slightly uncomfortable with it going to Beijing - but that's just politics I suppose...

Wellington, New Zealand.


Absolutely, Positively, Seconded.

I live in London and everyone i know was very keen that Paris should get it not London - that way we wouldn't have to pay the taxes for it, we wouldn't be swampred with toursist and it would still be really easy to get to.
So you don't want the government to build more public amenitys. That's a complete waste of money, isn't it? The people of London don't need swimming pools and sports stadiums, they should all be closed down. Think of the children, they'll be encouraged to waste their time doing pointless activities instead of sitting at home watching television. Health and fitness is so overrated. And what of all the money spent on improving London in preparation for the games? You londoners are so unlucky, I'd hate for that to happen to my city. As for the tourists, heaven forbid that they should come to our country and spend their precious money here. :rolleyes:

So you don't want the government to build more public amenitys. That's a complete waste of money, isn't it? The people of London don't need swimming pools and sports stadiums, they should all be closed down. Think of the children, they'll be encouraged to waste their time doing pointless activities instead of sitting at home watching television. Health and fitness is so overrated. And what of all the money spent on improving London in preparation for the games? You londoners are so unlucky, I'd hate for that to happen to my city. As for the tourists, heaven forbid that they should come to our country and spend their precious money here. :rolleyes:
So the royal family isn't overrated? :p

So the royal family isn't overrated? :p
They are just biding their time until they can remove the government and take power..

am i allowed to suggest sydney?
i know we had it only 6 years ago - but our trains ran on time, and everything and everyone just seemed so happy
and good for the economy and stuff
otherwise, what about somewhere in south america or africa? they hardly ever get anything over there

possibly wellington too - easy to get to from australia, but not so easy for the rest of the world i should think

I'm slightly uncomfortable with it going to Beijing - but that's just politics I suppose...

yeah, I second that. I don't think Beijing should have won teh games for 2008. China's gov't is corrupt, horrid human rights abusers, and their city is filthy. I still don't understand how and why the IOC selected them over other better candidates.

if anything, the Chinese will use 2008 as a platform for their communist regime, much like Berlin in 1936 with Hitler. quite sad...

if anything, the Chinese will use 2008 as a platform for their communist regime

China is about as "communist" as South Korea these days. Please don't misuse words. China is a one-Party capitalist dictatorship.

if anything, the Chinese will use 2008 as a platform for their communist regime, much like Berlin in 1936 with Hitler. quite sad...
Hitler was communist? :eek:

But seriously, how well did that work out for him? He wanted to show off the "arian" races leet skills, but then Jesse Owens came along... And aren't the chinese saying they'll take more gold medals than any other nation ever has? Same thing might happen to them...

Hitler was communist? :eek:

But seriously, how well did that work out for him? He wanted to show off the "arian" races leet skills, but then Jesse Owens came along... And aren't the chinese saying they'll take more gold medals than any other nation ever has? Same thing might happen to them...

Hitler was just insane, period.

yeah, you can't trust their gov't. the Beijing games will be very political, the Chinese will boo Japanese athletes and the Japanese national anthem when its played from past experiences, Beijing will be even more crowded from the athletes/visitors, I dunno... it'll just be pure chaos from the sounds of it.

but we'll see how it works out in the end...

So you don't want the government to build more public amenitys. That's a complete waste of money, isn't it? The people of London don't need swimming pools and sports stadiums, they should all be closed down. Think of the children, they'll be encouraged to waste their time doing pointless activities instead of sitting at home watching television. Health and fitness is so overrated. And what of all the money spent on improving London in preparation for the games? You londoners are so unlucky, I'd hate for that to happen to my city. As for the tourists, heaven forbid that they should come to our country and spend their precious money here. :rolleyes:

I think it is a waste of money to build stadia that will be demolished once the games have finished as will happen in London.

Vatican City:D

Vancouver Island has the last little bit of temperate forest left in the world...and that's about it...we've got a legislature full of the sleaziest politicans around...does that count?

There's still some of that temperate rainforest on the mainland.

Victoria did do a good job with the Commonwealth games not too long ago (though, so did Edmonton back in 1978), but it's a very small city to host to Olympics. There wouldn't be enough hotel space.

Frankly, I think Vancouver's Olympics are going to be a disaster. That speedskating oval is a microcosm of the whole event.

They're building the oval on a river delta in an extremely active seismic zone. So, as about 2m above sea level, this will be the lowest speedskating oval ever, and thicker air means slower skaters. Plus, the humidity (not only is the oval right next to the ocean, but the Olympics are being held during the rainy season) will make the ice frosty, and thus slower still. This will be the slowest ice ever made. Add to that the unstable ground beneath it, and any seismic activity between now and 2010 will tilt the oval beyond the limits of the regulations and render the oval substandard, and they'll have to relocate the events to Calgary (that's the backup plan). Just a little tremor will do it. A major earthquake would cause widespread liquefaction of the area, causing the oval to sink.

The whole of the Olympics are being planned about that well.

I want to see the winter Olympics in Salzburg.

I want to see the winter Olympics in Salzburg.

Just for the view from the top of the ski jump ramp I suppose. (A nice little graveyard)

Id say host the next olympic games in iraq and have the afgans as the organising crew along with israel police and hamas shuttle drivers

Bejing?

Confusious say, Stadium fit 300,000 chinese. Only 300 american.

I would pick AdamsTown, Pitcairn

Wouldn't it just make less of a dispute to build an olympic stadium on the moon? Then everyone could flock there and we'd be able to colonize the galaxy. Or would it just make America control it because they discovered the moon.

Wouldn't it just make less of a dispute to build an olympic stadium on the moon? Then everyone could flock there and we'd be able to colonize the galaxy. Or would it just make America control it because they discovered the moon.

no. the greeks discovered the moon. and the olimpics. keep em in athens.

Spitsbergen, Tierra del Fuego, Lhasa, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Norilsk...

Sydney seemed to do it pretty well

I say Melbourne. The Commonwealth Games earlier in the year were held here with great success. We have the games infrastructure in place, very good public transport & we love our sport.

Same is true for Manchester. I'd like to see a British city other than London get it because it is getting rather overrated and the world ought to focus on another corner of our country!

Same is true for Manchester. I'd like to see a British city other than London get it because it is getting rather overrated and the world ought to focus on another corner of our country!

Aberystwyth.

Motly so I get to watch those American commentators try to pronouce Welsh town names.

Warsaw Poland

I would pick AdamsTown, Pitcairn

Yea! They could stack the playing fields! ;)

Aberystwyth.

Motly so I get to watch those American commentators try to pronouce Welsh town names.

That would be fantastic "and now ladies and gentleman the 100m final live from clan . . .er . . . clew . . .[horrible hawking noise in back of throat] . . .er this pretty Wesh town"

Funafuti, Tuvalu!

more seriously, Boston.

somewhere in New Zealand for sure, I think theres more to NZ than the sheeps, the kiwis, and the hobbits.

also a northern European country sounds nice, like Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, etc.

as well, I'd like to see it in the Caribbean somewhere... Jamaica, Trinidad, and Costa Rica for sure.

and... Taipei, Taiwan for Asia, also Thailand.

Cape Town, RSA and Cairo for Africa.

mmm... I think thats about it... :p

If we get the politics out of the way (say, by an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty), Tel-Aviv could host a great Olympics. I mean, they already host the Maccabi Games (Israeli Olympics) every year. All they would need to do is expand the Maccabi facilities.
Not to mention the best security around.

Speaking with guesses here..

I think Philadelphia is trying to get the olympics to the city, although I bet all the shit would actually be built in Camden because, lets face it, Camden is a parking lot for some of Philly's.. stuff. Already have the aquarium there..

*shrugs*
Philly? You gotta be kidding me! We boo everyone, even santa clause (we did too). We'd destroy the humanity united idea behind the olypics and probably start WWIII.

I would argue against Toronto, becuase I think it is too big. For me the Olympics should be in a smaller spot where the games can really put a place on the map, and also really enthrall the locals. Obviously a town has to be a certain size of course, to pull it off.

To go local, I say Halifax.
Looking abroad, I've always wanted to visit Bratislava, and the Olympics would be a great excuse.

New York. Cause I'm biased, but also because we have four new stadiums (Mets, Jets/Giants, Nets, Yankees) in the works for the next couple of years anyway. And since Manhatton is crowded, they can do like a New York/New Jersey area thing.

Or somewhere in Singapore, to award them for the lowest infant mortality rate. I think having the lowest infant mortality rate should warrant some kind of prize.

To go local, I say Halifax.


Halifax (http://www.halifaxuk.co.uk/), for those that don't know its charms.

My first choice would be New York. New York is well, New York, one of the greatest cities of the world. Second would be Buenos Aires. I love Argentina, a beautiful country and terrific people.

I'm actually glad London got the prize for the 2012 games, I can't wait to travel there and enjoy them. Toronto or Montreal would also be good choices as well.

We must talk.;)

Wellington, New Zealand.

NO! You don't want New Zealand to host the Olympics. I say let the spoiled polluted megalopolis cities of the world deal with the crouds. You don't want all those people spoiling your precious and beautiful landscape.

NO! You don't want New Zealand to host the Olympics. I say let the spoiled polluted megalopolis cities of the world deal with the crouds. You don't want all those people spoiling your precious and beautiful landscape.

That's very interesting. I've been studying New Zealand society and identity (for my doctoral thesis), and the image it has at home and abroad. The whole "beautiful landscapes" thing, purity of the healthy rural air, Pakeha society founded (partly) on the idea of getting away from dirty, overcrowded, industrialised Victorian cities... It seems that image is still very much alive in the eyes of non-New Zealanders too, despite New Zealand being one of the most highly urbanised countries in the world (86% in 2001).

I say we should in my city, Houston.
Then we can watch all the marathon runners fall down and die halfway thourgh.
Let's just say there's a reason the annual Houston marathon is held in January.
It gets over 100 Farenheit regulary and it's really humid here too.
Perfect for atheletes.:p

Baghdad, or P'yon'yang.

Philly? You gotta be kidding me! We boo everyone, even santa clause (we did too). We'd destroy the humanity united idea behind the olypics and probably start WWIII.
It would make great tv though :D

Baghdad, or P'yon'yang.

Well, Pyongyang would have one advantage: it's one of the safest cities in the world. And somehow I imagine not many foreign athletes would try to defect into North Korea. :D

The Nation States forum should be the venue for the conclusion jumping competition.

Well, Pyongyang would have one advantage: it's one of the safest cities in the world. And somehow I imagine not many foreign athletes would try to defect into North Korea. :D

It would take them a lot of work to get that place ready, just placing real (not plastic) food in the grocery stores would be a challenge. But, I am the sure the entertainment would be amazing.

Baghdad, or P'yon'yang.

No, No, NO! The only place for the Olympic Games is........Mogadishu!

That's very interesting. I've been studying New Zealand society and identity (for my doctoral thesis), and the image it has at home and abroad. The whole "beautiful landscapes" thing, purity of the healthy rural air, Pakeha society founded (partly) on the idea of getting away from dirty, overcrowded, industrialised Victorian cities... It seems that image is still very much alive in the eyes of non-New Zealanders too, despite New Zealand being one of the most highly urbanised countries in the world (86% in 2001).

Once you leave Auckland and the North Island, its a totally different story. I've actually visited NZ 2 years ago, and believe me, the "urbanization" there does not even begin to compare to the US, Europe, or Asia. Wellington is gorgeous, and the people could not have been friendlier. New Zealand is a very clean and stunning nation of very warm, beautiful people, I wish I could visit again soon.

I vote for ouagadougou, just to hear the reporters try to say it :p

Yeah, definitely somewhere in Africa.

I think your all going at this the wrong way. The choice is obvious. The Olympics should be held on the moon. :p

DENVER!

Why? It is one of the most underrated cities in America everyone has heard of. It is constantly ignored by people around the country and indeed around the world. It is located amongst some of the most beautiful countrysides in the entire nation, yet it is ignored! I say we bring the Olympics to Denver! WHO'S WITH ME?!