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Where should the 2016 Olympics be held?

Where should the 2016 Olympics be held

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Travis

Misanthrope of the Mountains
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Madrid is nice but with another European city hosting in 2012 it probably should be elsewhere and I'm sure that Rio and Tokyo would both be great but.......I would like Chicago to get it. Having the completed 610 meter tall Chicago Spire as a backdrop would just be so dramatic.
 
London. They are building horrific new buildings in the East End for some event in 2012. If we get them in '16 perhaps we can build some Olympic stadiums there.
 
No Yeovil, Somerset, option? you missed an obvious one there! I hear the "wurzels" would be available for cultural entertainment. If they are still alive then of course.
Formation tractor driving, cider...I could go on.
 
London. They are building horrific new buildings in the East End for some event in 2012.
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Maybe it's a shelter to survive the asteroid that is going to hit the Earth in 2012. Yes that's the event.;)


I picked Rio
 
I'll vote for Rio, obviously.

However, upon seeing the *astounding* opening ceremony provided by the Chinese government... *fear*. I think it will take a long while until some country can match that. Somehow I think that the London organizers are crying since last Friday, wondering how on Earth they can come close to that.

The combination of authoritarian government, willingness to prove itself before the world, millions of unemployed/ low income people willing to be put under all that discipline, the complete disregard for the opinion of locals... that will be hard to beat anytime soon.
 
This poll is illegitimate because there's no Planet X option. As such, the IOC will not consider its results.

RANT! Frankly, I don't give a pinch of owl snot where you have the stupid thing as long as it isn't within 500 miles (793 km) of me. We have enough goddam tourists trashing up the place with their million man marches and pro-abortion and anti-abortion and anti-war and anti-G8-summit and anti-global warming protests, and ten gazillion people strewing trash all over the place on the Fourth of July, plus the Leap Year Inauguration Day trashing - hey, buttholes, your mothers don't work here - pick up after your goddam selves!

Plus all you jerkwads with your cameras taking pictures of yourselves in front of government buildings you didn't know existed and won't be able to identify when you get home ("Is that the White House?" "No, I think it's the Washington Monument." "No, wait, it's a parking garage - see the sign?"), blocking the sidewalks and clogging the metro escalators and getting pissed off at me when you pull over to the curb and ask me where the "tourist parking" is and I reply, "Huh???"

Welcome to DC. You may think it's a good place to trash, but I have to live here and work here. Go home and don't come back until you learn some basic manners.
 
I would have thought that 2016 was already decided. But since its not, i vote Rio too. As someone said, its about time for South America. And, its about time someone takes the arrangement down a few notches. Everybody cant just keep on trying to top the last vent.
 
Luciana said:
I'll vote for Rio, obviously.

However, upon seeing the *astounding* opening ceremony provided by the Chinese government... *fear*. I think it will take a long while until some country can match that. Somehow I think that the London organizers are crying since last Friday, wondering how on Earth they can come close to that.

The combination of authoritarian government, willingness to prove itself before the world, millions of unemployed/ low income people willing to be put under all that discipline, the complete disregard for the opinion of locals... that will be hard to beat anytime soon.
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Just re-run the carnival, replete with music and scantily clad women, and you have any other Olympic opening smothered.

I mean: Who wants to look at a guy running upside a wall (out of sync, too)?
 
Luciana said:
I'll vote for Rio, obviously.

However, upon seeing the *astounding* opening ceremony provided by the Chinese government... *fear*. I think it will take a long while until some country can match that. Somehow I think that the London organizers are crying since last Friday, wondering how on Earth they can come close to that.
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As much as I enjoyed the opening ceremony, we need to remember that the Olympics is first and foremost a sporting event. The focus should be on the athletic competition instead of pageantry and fancy venues.
 
First Choice: The Sudan, specifically in the Darfur region. That area needs an economic shot in the arm like nobody's business. Also, not much pollution, compared to Peking or Rio.

Second Choice: Rio.

You have to ask why?
 
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