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Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:10 pm (Last edited: Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:11 pm)
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Not that it is over, I'd say the Olympics was a huge success. Paris, and all of France, did an amazing job and it was a lot of fun to watch after the letdown of Tokyo and all the problems in Rio. It doesn't bother me that the Olympics are no longer all amateur. I want to see the best athletes in the world and this Olympics delivered. |
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Zitat von TriangleRider im Beitrag #16 Do you think it will be as much fun when the Olympics are held in LA four years from now? Personally, I wouldn't bet on it.
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #17Zitat von TriangleRider im Beitrag #16 one hopes it is more like Paris 2024 than Berlin 1936
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #17Zitat von TriangleRider im Beitrag #16 Surfing at Malibu or Tahiti? Which would you choose?
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Lately the mayor of LA is saying that he plans to eliminate auto driving within the Olympic area and have everyone arrive via public transportation. Of course, the city will have to build the transportation infrastructure mostly from scratch to do that within the next four years. Experts are saying "good luck getting it done so quickly in California" (where everything you try to do will have someone taking you to court to prevent you from doing it). The mayor's backup plan is to have thousands of busses take people to and from the events. Many of the busses will be borrowed from all over the country and the roadways will be designated as bus-only lanes. He has big plans and is going to need hundreds of millions of dollars to carry them out. Maybe he will start a "go fund me" page. lol
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Zitat von TriangleRider im Beitrag #16 Depends on who you ask. Cardboard beds for athletes so bad that whole teams refused to use Olympic housing and paid top dollar to stay at nearby hotels. Diet plans so abysmal that entire teams had to bring in their own food and chefs to eat properly for people who burn thousands of calories a day when training and competing. All the “green agenda” nonsense that made no sense at all considering the event.
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California should never host another Olympics. Some don’t realize that the games almost always become a financial boondoggle and loss for the places hosting it. California is financially underwater. LA particularly. Where do they expect all the money to come from to pay for another Olympics? How much do you want to bet they’ll say they need all new facilities rather than use the ones they made for the last summer Olympics they hosted.
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Are the Olympics still relevant? I guess so, if you believe paying Snoop Dogg $500,000 a day to attend the Olympics as a "cheerleader" for Team USA is a sign of "relevance". He's said to have made a tidy $9 million while attending. |
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Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #21 I have been listening to some commentary on BBC Radio today, comparing Paris with London 2012 and looking ahead to LA. One contributor was speaking about how large cities like London and Paris have an advantage as they already have the urban transport infrastructure to get millions of people in and out of the city every day. Most people travelling to sporting events would be travelling outside the normal commuting times. LA must have large movements of people in and out of suburbs everyday. How is that done now? All by car? If so, maybe this is the opportunity for LA to wake up to a more European model for mass transit using trams, trains and subways. [pause to google] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail says it moves 192,000 people a day. Transport for London (tube, buses, overland rail) move around 4 million a day so LA has a way to go!
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Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #24 If that is what you are paying attention to, then no, I wouldn't think you would like the Olympics. |
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LA is all about driving a car (and motorcycle) on freeways to get anywhere. You won't find very many people who want to ride on a bus or train with people who can not afford a car. There was also a mention the other day that LA would have to figure out how to get the homeless to find some other place to camp out during the day other than the busses and train systems during the Olympics.
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Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:59 am (Last edited: Tue Aug 13, 2024 5:05 am)
Zitat von TriangleRider im Beitrag #26Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #24 Good point! But I will say that with the exception of a few track events (for obvious reasons...see post #1), the Olympics today really don't measure up to those of 30-40 years ago. Chalk it up to whatever you want, the "human drama" of earlier Olympic competitions was more "immediate" and less over-hyped. It's a memory thing that attaches to age, probably. Guilty as charged. And speaking of track...the track surfaces today are vastly different than decades ago, the shoe technology is way more advanced, so new records have to be taken with a grain of salt. Apples and oranges... |
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Zitat von BEARR im Beitrag #20 Best of luck to the federation experts analysing the software to look for gender bias. |
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Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:49 am (Last edited: Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:49 am)
Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #27 Given the 1984 LA Olympic opening ceremony, I am very surprised that the population of LA are not all flying around on jetpacks yet. |
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