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View Poll Results: Where would you want to see the 2016 Olympic Games? | |||
Chicago (USA) | 5 | 22.73% | |
Madrid (Spain) | 1 | 4.55% | |
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) | 6 | 27.27% | |
Tokyo (Japan) | 10 | 45.45% | |
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2009-10-03, 09:29 | Link #61 | |
It's the year 3030...
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Spaceport Colony Sicilia
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Now THIS is interesting...Chicago's Loss: Is Passport Control to Blame?
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2009-10-08, 15:30 | Link #62 | |
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Location: Rio
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Besides, the olympics will give birth to a lot of jobs in all kinds of areas, for me, that's enough to validate the games. I'm not even thinking about how the city will get better for now, just the new jobs is good enough. Besides, it's time for them to make a real subway, like the one in São Paulo. Rio's subway is nice, but it's so small it ends up being little more than a joke. |
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2009-10-08, 22:38 | Link #63 | |
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(There's been a lot of work on this subject since the days of the Marquis de Condorcet and Lewis Carroll. The key result is the "general possibilty theorem" of Nobel-winner Kenneth Arrow who shows that all reasonable models of democratic choice have intrinisic contradictions. Some scholars believe approval voting is a preferable method of voting on multiple alternatives when compared to the system the Olympics Committee employed.)
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2009-10-09, 00:50 | Link #64 | |
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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We're losing conferences, meetings, seminars, and many professional gatherings to other countries that we used to host because participants have simply had it with the *security theatre* of US borders. This includes the arenas of science, engineering, and information technologies amongst other areas. It costs tourism and domestic American business billions of dollars with no actual return in greater security. The Olympics would be just another example.
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2009-10-09, 04:45 | Link #65 |
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I'd like to say Tokyo but we had the Olympics in Asia too short a time ago. While Olympics were hosted in the Americas before, all of them were in North America. The way I see it, it would be better to have them in Rio, and then perhaps go back to Oceania. Has anyone actually thought that maybe they should also host the Olympics in the middle east in 2020? I was thinking maybe even India would be a good place (though its not exactly middle east). Its economy is boosting as well and it looks really promising right now. I would think that by then, it would be able to pay off the event the way China did last year.
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2009-10-09, 06:15 | Link #66 |
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As someone who lives in Chicago, IL. I can tell you without any doubt that I did not want the games. Lots of people feel the same way as I do. It's not as though we couldn't manage to have them hosted here, it's just it would be too bothersome.
I'm just too happy that we were eliminated first. Maybe Chicago can get off it's high horse and not expect for it to be the winning choice. Such goddamn arrogance, cheers to Mayor Daley. |
2009-10-09, 15:05 | Link #67 | |
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Except for my uncle in law, that is.
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2009-10-09, 16:05 | Link #68 |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
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Hmm, having suffered the effects of having the Olympics in your country, I wouldn't want them back here for a while:P
As for which country should host them next, Rio would be nice if it can't be Madrid, although location doesn't mean that much to me...no Olympics in Africa btw? |
2009-10-20, 14:37 | Link #71 |
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Tokyo, or their Gundam and everything will go to waste. (the many parades they used to promote their place for olympics... I wonder how much they wasted to do that before they discovered that Tokyo lost in the second round)...
Although Rio got a chance... news keeps popping up with violence (they won't cancel it I'm sure... they'll probably deploy 70% of their entire army, 50% of their navy, 40% of their airforce and 100% of their police force to safeguard the Rio olympics...
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2009-10-21, 01:07 | Link #73 | ||
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2009-10-21, 15:46 | Link #74 | |
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Lots of stories about this, a wise decision a country must make is to use the facilities after the event is over, but in athen's cause, it didn't work out so well.
I suspect china learnt from that and London will do the same... After the torch glow has faded... Quote:
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