Where should the 2016 Olympics be held?

[SezMe]

Brings new meaning to Soylent Green.

 

[Darth Rotor]

You don't think a couple of hundred thousand bodies rotting in the noon day sun might not qualify as pollution?

Nope. It's a mass flow rate of gases problem. Wind currents take care of that.

DR

 

[maxfrost]

Springfield.

 

[SezMe]

Peoria.

 

[enrique]

Rio way better!

 

[Alex Libman]

I'm not a big fan of the Olympics or of large cities, but I voted Tokyo because that's the city where those games would make the most sense in a free market. It has more people willing to pay high ticket prices, better infrastructure, if the games are meant to represent "world peace" then Japan has been setting a very good example lately, and you just know they'll be trying to one-up China so the games would be extra good.

 

[WildCat]

I'm hoping after the China human rights debacle the IOC won't want an Olympics that features military armored personnel carriers in the streets to keep the natives from getting restless which would be the case in Rio.

Besides, it's the best hope we have here of the city actually fixing the trains so it doesn't take over an hour to get to O'hare from downtown!

 

[RadioactiveMan]

Rio. That way, it'll have been two and a half decades since a North American Summer Games, upping the odds Minneapolis will get the goods.

If I'm working Customs at MSP by then, I'll be sure to arrange some vacation around that time, though...

 

[snoop_doxie]

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.

i voted for Chicago, only because it is closest to me in Southeast Michigan.
but canada is the obvious choice, they have a lot of extra room right?

 

[Emerson Street]

Much Wenlock.

I am amazed that you know of my home town!

 

[Travis]

I'm not a big fan of the Olympics or of large cities, but I voted Tokyo because that's the city where those games would make the most sense in a free market. It has more people willing to pay high ticket prices, better infrastructure, if the games are meant to represent "world peace" then Japan has been setting a very good example lately, and you just know they'll be trying to one-up China so the games would be extra good.

I'm betting that you could turn a discussion of a radical lesbian panda worshiping cult into free market propaganda.

Honestly I don't think Tokyo will get it due to the proximity to Beijing. The IOC tends to rotate continents so in 2016 the Americas will be due which is part of why Rio and Chicago are the front runners.

 

[LashL]

i voted for Chicago, only because it is closest to me in Southeast Michigan.
but canada is the obvious choice, they have a lot of extra room right?

Canada is hosting the 2010 winter Olympics, though, so both Toronto and Montreal dropped their 2016 bids when the IOC decision on 2010 was made.

I voted for Rio, perhaps somewhat hastily because of personal experience and fabulous memories but thinking about it further, Chicago might be able to pull it off, as might Madrid. Tokyo - no, I don't see that happening.

 

[snoop_doxie]

Canada is hosting the 2010 winter Olympics, though, so both Toronto and Montreal dropped their 2016 bids when the IOC decision on 2010 was made.

thank you LashL, this is great news! actually it only makes sense. where else should the winter olympics be held? the bonus is i could hop in my car and be there in a couple of hours. wait.....will there be curling?

I voted for Rio, perhaps somewhat hastily because of personal experience and fabulous memories but thinking about it further, Chicago might be able to pull it off, as might Madrid. Tokyo - no, I don't see that happening.

ahhh, Rio, that seems like a perfect place to party! i mean have an international sporting event.

 

[Lonewulf]

Antarctica.

 

[RadioactiveMan]

Antarctica.

Unfortunately, the folks at McMurdo are too busy to put together anything more than a half-assed proposal to the IOC.

 

[Tsukasa Buddha]

Besides, it's the best hope we have here of the city actually fixing the trains so it doesn't take over an hour to get to O'hare from downtown!

Agreed.

 

[IMST]

Rio would be awesome. You just don't hear enough Portuguese in day to day life. If you live where I do.