2016 Summer Olympics

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It won't be *summer* in Brazil during the summer games...but it'll still be warm.

Why not? Why wouldn't they hold it in Brazil's summer, and not ours?

 

[Cuivienen]

Why not? Why wouldn't they hold it in Brazil's summer, and not ours?

Same reason they wouldn't hold it during Dubai's summer. Too hot for most outdoor sports (or, really, too humid).

 

[ThERat]

Actually I would find it pretty perverted to have Olympics held in Dubai or Doha. Local women would hardly even be allowed in the stadium and if, they would need to wear their headscarf that leaves only the eyes visible. Meanwhile scantily dressed women would do their sports? I think that's not really the right setup.

The setup in Chicago looks pretty nice anyway.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Same reason they wouldn't hold it during Dubai's summer. Too hot for most outdoor sports (or, really, too humid).

If they'll hold it during the Greek summer, they can have it in the Brazilian summer.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Some of you people have little to no clue how painful it is to play a sport in 95 degree Farenheight weather with humidity. It is armchair decision makers such as yourselves that end peoples' sports careers and cause deaths and seek a potentially significantly less interesting world cup simply due to the heat the fans and atheletes have to deal with.

You mean like the geniuses that gave possibly the most polluted city in the world the 2008 Olympics? Clearly Toronto was the better choice.

EDIT: And holy crap to the 20 people who voted for Dubai; you realize how hot it gets there right?

 

[cthom]

If they'll hold it during the Greek summer, they can have it in the Brazilian summer.

that would be the winter games. brazil is southern hemisphere remember

prague would be an interesting choice, i think.

 

[downtown]

If they'll hold it during the Greek summer, they can have it in the Brazilian summer.

Have you ever been to Brazil in December? Take the most humid, most sticky, hottest feeling you've ever felt in Maryland.

Then take that, and up it by an order of magnitute. Thats Rio's "summer".

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Some of you people have little to no clue how painful it is to play a sport in 95 degree Farenheight weather with humidity.

I personally find that rather fun, so long as there's plenty of water/gatorade.

that would be the winter games. brazil is southern hemisphere remember

Brazil's summer=our winter. Just hold the games six months later.

Have you ever been to Brazil in December? Take the most humid, most sticky, hottest feeling you've ever felt in Maryland.

Then take that, and up it by an order of magnitute. Thats Rio's "summer".

I wasn't comparing it to Maryland, I was comparing it to Athens. If they can hold the Olympics in a sweaty, sticky, hot place like southern Greece, they can do it in Rio de Janiero.

EDIT: Upon further investigation, it appears that Greece is quite a bit farther North than I thought; Athen's latitude is roughly that of Washington D.C., about 37 degrees N., whereas Rio de Janiero is just inside the Tropic of Capicorn, which is 23 degrees S. Harumph.

I say we just hold it in Athens every four years. It's a lot cooler that way anyhow.

 

[Atlas14]

I personally find that rather fun, so long as there's plenty of water/gatorade.

But the world-cup guys get essentially no substitutes and only a half-time to rehydrate themselves. I've played entire games without being substituted like that before, but it was only 85 degrees, and I thought I would pass out and go to the hospital.

 

[Rossiya]

I clicked Rome because it was the only city I had heard of, being a backward person.

 

[Ball Lightning]

Melbourne 2016

Unlikely unfortunately..

 

[Gladi]

Bright day
Anywhere but Prague!

 

[jeps]

The best Winter Olympics, of course, was Calgary.

Oh yes, the ONE olympics where the host country didnt win a single gold medal.

 

[Mise]

Istanbul would be cool, for political reasons. The historic bridge between East and West.

I voted for Rio as well though, cos Brazil deserves one.

 

[GoodGame]

Good idea, and also I have trouble seeing Chicago as the site. Probably no winter games anywhere in Africa, as about all the mountain glaciers melted .

A summer games in South Africa would probably be doable.

Given that it's in Beijing (Asia) 2008 and London (Europe) 2012 and was recently in Athens (Europe), Sydney (Australasia) and Atlanta (North America) it would be nice in 2016 if it were in Africa or South America for a change.

 

[luiz]

Rio de Janeiro of course, unless it jeopardizes the 2014 World Cup, which is the most important.

I think the Panamerican Games of 2007 (which start next week, BTW) will prove that Rio is capable of hosting a major international competition.

 

[Masquerouge]

Rio de Janeiro of course, unless it jeopardizes the 2014 World Cup, which is the most important.

QFT! Nothing is more important than the WC.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The best Winter Olympics, of course, was Calgary.

Oh yes, the ONE olympics where the host country didnt win a single gold medal.

So? We came awfully close in some events, most notably men's figure skating. It's nearly 20 years later and people still talk about "The Battle of the Brians" (American Boitano vs. Canadian Orser). Brian Boitano won that by a 5-4 split in the judging in the long program. Unlike some of the later Olympic games, the judging in this event was scrupulously fair; Boitano won because Orser had to touch his hand down to the ice during a triple jump. That was enough to lose him the gold medal and knock him down to silver.

Besides, Calgary is just a relative hop, skip and jump up the highway from me.