Olympic Games Awarded to Paris and LA
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Really don't want the Olympics in the US. For 4 years we are going to hear about possible terrorist attack and they were just given a decade to plan
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Really don't want the Olympics in the US. For 4 years we are going to hear about possible terrorist attack and they were just given a decade to plan
Really don't want the Olympics in the US. For 4 years we are going to hear about possible terrorist attack and they were just given a decade to plan
Kind of a chicken attitude.
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Really don't want the Olympics in the US. For 4 years we are going to hear about possible terrorist attack and they were just given a decade to plan
Kind of a chicken attitude.
Kind of a chicken attitude.
Yeah we're AMERICA dammit not Europe. Seriously though you go with your best security possible and go with it.
Actually inside the venues might be the safest place on earth during the games.
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Really don't want the Olympics in the US. For 4 years we are going to hear about possible terrorist attack and they were just given a decade to plan
Kind of a chicken attitude.
Kind of a chicken attitude.
Chicken, lol. Why open the residents of Los Angeles to possible harm for the Olympics? Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian ever and his best gig is Shark Week. The Olympics are virtually irrelevant.
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Kind of a chicken attitude.
Yeah we're AMERICA dammit not Europe. Seriously though you go with your best security possible and go with it.
Actually inside the venues might be the safest place on earth during the games.
Yeah we're AMERICA dammit not Europe. Seriously though you go with your best security possible and go with it.
Actually inside the venues might be the safest place on earth during the games.
I agree with inside the venues but if someone detonates are car bomb in San Diego during that week it will be labeled an Olympic Attack and will have a Wkikpedia page within minutes. Just don't think hosting the games is as prestigious as it used to be.
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Yeah we're AMERICA dammit not Europe. Seriously though you go with your best security possible and go with it.
Actually inside the venues might be the safest place on earth during the games.
I agree with inside the venues but if someone detonates are car bomb in San Diego during that week it will be labeled an Olympic Attack and will have a Wkikpedia page within minutes. Just don't think hosting the games is as prestigious as it used to be.
I agree with inside the venues but if someone detonates are car bomb in San Diego during that week it will be labeled an Olympic Attack and will have a Wkikpedia page within minutes. Just don't think hosting the games is as prestigious as it used to be.
Hosting the games can be a big money pit especially for smaller economies, you will see more back out or just be excluded unless they already have the facilities.
Terrorists are also a big concern and expense I'd be more concerned in Europe and far East.
As far as interest it's still there, to make money versus lose money for the host country in the long run isn't always clear.
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I was stationed in San Diego for the Los Angeles 1984 Olympics. Still have the beer mug.
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Kind of a chicken attitude.
Chicken, lol. Why open the residents of Los Angeles to possible harm for the Olympics? Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian ever and his best gig is Shark Week. The Olympics are virtually irrelevant.
Chicken, lol. Why open the residents of Los Angeles to possible harm for the Olympics? Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian ever and his best gig is Shark Week. The Olympics are virtually irrelevant.
To you, but not to Planet Earth.
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Kind of a chicken attitude.
Chicken, lol. Why open the residents of Los Angeles to possible harm for the Olympics? Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian ever and his best gig is Shark Week. The Olympics are virtually irrelevant.
Chicken, lol. Why open the residents of Los Angeles to possible harm for the Olympics? Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian ever and his best gig is Shark Week. The Olympics are virtually irrelevant.
It is. Its just that you are being clueless here. What perhaps you mean to say that would not be clueless is that the prestige does not outweigh the overwhelming expense that some nations have had to go through to host the games. Building the venues is a multibillion dollar affair. That is why the Olympics are now likely to be held on a more rotation basis of cities that have the venues in place. LA clearly is one of those. Beijing, Paris, London, Tokyo may be in that group. But it may be too bad for the cities like Rio, or maybe Athens or other cities that have never had them. The price of things has pushed the games out of the market for new cities. A Capetown, a Toronto, Bombay...etc. new cities that have never had them, but would in theory like them, will not be able to host them.
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Chicken, lol. Why open the residents of Los Angeles to possible harm for the Olympics? Michael Phelps may be the greatest Olympian ever and his best gig is Shark Week. The Olympics are virtually irrelevant.
It is. Its just that you are being clueless here. What perhaps you mean to say that would not be clueless is that the prestige does not outweigh the overwhelming expense that some nations have had to go through to host the games. Building the venues is a multibillion dollar affair. That is why the Olympics are now likely to be held on a more rotation basis of cities that have the venues in place. LA clearly is one of those. Beijing, Paris, London, Tokyo may be in that group. But it may be too bad for the cities like Rio, or maybe Athens or other cities that have never had them. The price of things has pushed the games out of the market for new cities. A Capetown, a Toronto, Bombay...etc. new cities that have never had them, but would in theory like them, will not be able to host them.
It is. Its just that you are being clueless here. What perhaps you mean to say that would not be clueless is that the prestige does not outweigh the overwhelming expense that some nations have had to go through to host the games. Building the venues is a multibillion dollar affair. That is why the Olympics are now likely to be held on a more rotation basis of cities that have the venues in place. LA clearly is one of those. Beijing, Paris, London, Tokyo may be in that group. But it may be too bad for the cities like Rio, or maybe Athens or other cities that have never had them. The price of things has pushed the games out of the market for new cities. A Capetown, a Toronto, Bombay...etc. new cities that have never had them, but would in theory like them, will not be able to host them.
No that's what I would not say. The Olympics are irrelevant. An older generation may hang onto them for nostalgia's sake but sports like boxing, track and field, swimming, etc. are only exciting when a super star is in the mix. I guarantee less than a million Americans tuned into Bolt's last race and he is the latest man ever and a super star. McGregor vs Mayweather will out draw the best boxing matchup of the year and no one is paying attention to swimming post-Phelps.
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According to figures released Monday, NBC drew an average total audience of 25.4 million viewers on its broadcast network in prime time, or 198 million people overall on TV.
Combine figures from broadcast, cable and online and the tally jumps to 27.5 million; enough to boost viewership for NBC programs like the Today show and NBC Nightly News while also bringing victories over network and cable TV competitors.
But those numbers weren't nearly as good as the ratings four years ago from the London Games, which drew an average 31.1 million viewers in prime time, according to an NBC release. Back then, the 2012 games were touted as the most watched TV event in U.S. history.
In fact, the average 27.5 million viewers drawn by the Rio Games were the first time the total audience went down from a previous Olympics since the contests in Sydney back in 2000, according to figures provided by NBC.....CONTINUED IN LINK.......
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The games in LA should draw better than even London plus it's hard to measure the other than TV viewership.
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It is. Its just that you are being clueless here. What perhaps you mean to say that would not be clueless is that the prestige does not outweigh the overwhelming expense that some nations have had to go through to host the games. Building the venues is a multibillion dollar affair. That is why the Olympics are now likely to be held on a more rotation basis of cities that have the venues in place. LA clearly is one of those. Beijing, Paris, London, Tokyo may be in that group. But it may be too bad for the cities like Rio, or maybe Athens or other cities that have never had them. The price of things has pushed the games out of the market for new cities. A Capetown, a Toronto, Bombay...etc. new cities that have never had them, but would in theory like them, will not be able to host them.
No that's what I would not say. The Olympics are irrelevant. An older generation may hang onto them for nostalgia's sake but sports like boxing, track and field, swimming, etc. are only exciting when a super star is in the mix. I guarantee less than a million Americans tuned into Bolt's last race and he is the latest man ever and a super star. McGregor vs Mayweather will out draw the best boxing matchup of the year and no one is paying attention to swimming post-Phelps.
No that's what I would not say. The Olympics are irrelevant. An older generation may hang onto them for nostalgia's sake but sports like boxing, track and field, swimming, etc. are only exciting when a super star is in the mix. I guarantee less than a million Americans tuned into Bolt's last race and he is the latest man ever and a super star. McGregor vs Mayweather will out draw the best boxing matchup of the year and no one is paying attention to swimming post-Phelps.
Well, sorry, but you are just double dumbass wrong. You are imputing your own personal opinions to the rest of humanity.
As noted, the ratings of the Olympic Games are some of the highest of any sports events we have.
They don't match the Super Bowl likely, but they probably beat the ratings for the Finals of every other sport.
And that is just in this country.
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