The Olympic Dictatorship Games
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Emperors do not ask!
Tahuti
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Spain is not the Emperor!
Facetious answer: They wanted dinner and drinks with him, right? What's that in comparison to Queen Elizabeth parachuting out of a plane with James Bond at the Opening Ceremonies in London and turning up later as though it was no problem at all?
Cheetah
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As the head of state, it's his job to have dinner with people he's told to have dinner with, more or less. I suppose he could refuse, in which case we would have a handy opening for yet another discussion on the monarchy...
(The current crown prince has a tendency to butt his nose into everything however, so when he becomes king things will start getting more interesting.)
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Anyhow, now after the failure in Norway, it seems that the big-shots in Sweden are planning to gear up for having the 2026 Winter Olympics in Stockholm.
I'm sure the Swedish people will be all too happy to pay for it this time.
Well, I don't know how these things work in the corridors of power, but I wonder how Buckingham Palace would have reacted if the IOC had made this sort of (public) demand and the Cabinet (not even Westminster) had agreed without any sort of consultation.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
We're not in Spain anymore, Kaiserguard.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
In that case, Tel Aviv or Jerusalem would be the spot of most Olympics from 2018 to eternity.
Well all global games have become so corrupted that no wonder they are gaining negative attention.
F1 = slave work in Qatar
Ice hockey WC = Belarus and game was complitely rigged
Olympics 2012 = Russia, Sochi, horrible corruption in every way
What Norway did was a good decision. There are so much money that IOC thinks they are Emperors.
F1 = slave work in Qatar
Ice hockey WC = Belarus and game was complitely rigged
Olympics 2012 = Russia, Sochi, horrible corruption in every way
What Norway did was a good decision. There are so much money that IOC thinks they are Emperors.
China passing off a 10-year-old gymnast as a 14-year-old, and substituting one girl for another in the opening ceremonies (because the prettier girl couldn't sing as well as the less-attractive girl, so they had the pretty one lip-synch to a recording of the other girl) are two examples I can think of.
And Canada will never forget how Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were initially cheated of the gold medal they rightfully won in the pairs figure skating in Salt Lake City. The Russian pair should have been stripped of their medals once it was found that the judges had cheated.
classical_hero
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Good on Norway for this. The Winter games aren't as popular and even the more popular summer games don't make profit. Plus right now the IOC is basically a mafia style operation.
wolfigor
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The main problem is not the cost itself, but the usefulness of what the taxpayers have to pay for.
As many have stated, Olympics have become shorthand term for local administration pet projects, creating structures which become immediately useless after being built, support of "friendly" companies, cost overrun, embezzlement, and general corruption.
All of this promoted by IOC.
As we have seen the requests from IOC to Norway are something that nobody sane of mind will ever accept if they have the welfare of taxpayers at mind.
It's good that Norway is such an open and transparent country (relatively to others) that these requests became public so that taxpayers would be outraged by their government accepting them.
IOC needs a deep reform, maybe dismantled and rebuilt from scratch.
It maybe unpopular but I wish that western democracies would boycott all coming Olympics until IOC is duly reformed.
P.S.
one MP in Norway proposed that NOrway should boycott the 2022 Olympics:
http://www.thelocal.no/20141003/norway-should-boycott-2022-olympics-per-olaf-lundteigen
Are they going to reimburse their athletes for the costs they incurred (and employment/education opportunities deferred) while they were training to represent the country?
Boycotting might sound good to politicians, but it's really unfair to the athletes, some of whom have been training for half their lives.
Boycotting might sound good to politicians, but it's really unfair to the athletes, some of whom have been training for half their lives.
wolfigor
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Given that Olympic sports are heavily supported by people's taxes anyway, this is not really a good argument.
Additionally Olympic games are not the only international stage for sports.
There are word cup/championships which are at the same level.
One could revert the question:
Are athletes going to pay for the horrible cost of an Olympic themselves?
Reforming IOC will bring MUCH more value to all sports in the long term
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Which would mean Qatar withdrawing from the Olympic Committee, whoohoo!
classical_hero
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Much of the Muslim world would boycott and that will be a good thing.
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