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    #76
    That would be no biggie.

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      #77
      Rather unconvincing claims that it could all be resolved with “er....technology?”

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        #78
        At least they have actually named some technology there unlike the generic "technology" that will solve the Irish border question or save us all from global warming

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          #79
          The IOC sets a window when the Games have to be staged as part of the bid conditions; it's up to the host city precisely what dates they choose. The timeframe is something like the opening ceremony no earlier than the third Friday in July with the closing ceremony no later than the first Sunday in October.

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            #80
            Originally posted by ad hoc View Post
            At least they have actually named some technology there unlike the generic "technology" that will solve the Irish border question or save us all from global warming
            True, which was what I was driving at. Though I wonder how much of that technology has actually been developed. Aren’t we promised revolutionarily cooled stadia for Qatar 2022 based on methodology that had yet to be invented?

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              #81
              I think several cities hosting the Summer Olympics have timed them to avoid academic terms, so that they don't have to worry about the normal school run traffic. Added to this I believe that Los Angeles are planned to use university accommodation for the athletes village - not sure if other cities have also done this.

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                #82
                Presumably holding it during the time much of the Western first-world/big TV markets have school holidays also means more children can watch it and become inspired to pursue a career in fencing etc. And their parents will quite likely be off work and can take them outside in the nice weather/terrifying fire storm to chuck a ball around.

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                  #83
                  Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Post
                  I honestly never knew Hamburg was that big. Why doesn't it get more of a mention, more often? About the only time it ever comes up on British TV is when someone mentions that the Beatles went there. Maybe it should get the Olympics, then, to put it on the map, so to speak.
                  For a city that large it's pretty shit at football.

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                    #84
                    They need to change that first sentence. Everything below seems to be past tense.

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                      #85
                      Not compared to Berlin, Köln, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, etc

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                        #86
                        14th city in Europe by population, and yet there are 100 other with better football.

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                          #87
                          How many with a European Cup? Or a permanent position in the top tier until this season?

                          The argument here is for Berlin.

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                            #88
                            Italy is trying to put together a "national" bid for the 2026 Winter Games that includes Cortina d'Ampezzo, Milano and Torino, as well as the Valtellina and Sestriere. For those unfamiliar with Northern Italy, it can easily take five hours to get from Cortina to the Vatellina in a car (and there is no railway connection), seven plus from Cortina to Sestriere.

                            This is supposed to be the plan, though in true Italian fashion the Milanese team says that they've never seen it.

                            Last edited by ursus arctos; 02-08-2018, 14:19.

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                              #89
                              Originally posted by Pietro Paolo Virdis View Post
                              For a city that large it's pretty shit at football.
                              True. But that applies to quite a few large cities in Germany. Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Essen ... practically all of them except Munich.

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                                #90
                                North & South Korea agree joint 2032 Olympic bid

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                                  #91
                                  Originally posted by Ray de Galles View Post
                                  Reviving an old gag of De Galles', the Pole Vault is already confirmed for the Duncairn Gardens interface

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                                    #92
                                    Milano and Cortina d'Ampezzo have just been awarded the 2026 winter games.

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                                      #93
                                      ....They're 400km apart. What the hell?

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                                        #94
                                        The Swedish candidates were more than 600 km apart.

                                        The games have become too large for most ski resorts to host on their own.

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                                          #95
                                          A bit odd to be having some of the Alpine Skiing in Cortina and other bits of it in Sestriere, though. Those are over 600km apart.

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                                            #96
                                            Very much so.

                                            There were originally competing bids from Milano and Torino that then got merged into an "Italian" one, and then saw Torino withdraw.

                                            The result is scattered to say the least.

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                                              #97
                                              lmfao, the Swedish bid had the luge, skeleton and bobsledding at Sigulda.

                                              Which is in Latvia.

                                              I guess the Milano d'Ampezzo bid doesn't look so bad then.

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                                                #98
                                                Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
                                                The Swedish candidates were more than 600 km apart.

                                                The games have become too large for most ski resorts to host on their own.
                                                Do many ski resorts have an Olympic sized ice rink and curling centre? I'd imagine this kind of problem often occurs (although admittedly not to the extent of hundreds of kilometres)?

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                                                  #99
                                                  Not necessarily the resorts themselves, but they aren't rare in the towns that anchor resort areas.

                                                  Cortina has a rink that was built for the 56 Games, as do Grenoble, Innsbruck, St. Moritz, Albertville, etc.

                                                  That said, one now needs more than one rink given women's ice hockey, curling, etc. And demand for figure skating is now such that the IOC wants 15,000 seats or more, which is very rare for any European rink (Stockholm has one, Milano is building one from scratch)
                                                  Last edited by ursus arctos; 25-06-2019, 15:05.

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                                                    Ice skating and a bit of shinny seem like fairly common pursuits in an Alpine holiday, so I think lots of ski resorts have ice rinks. Plus the locals would probably use them as they'd be disproportionately interested in winter sports. Stadio Olimpico del ghiaccio is bloomin' gorgeous, with loads of wood, even with the roof added to it in 1981.





                                                    I suspect it will probably be used again for something.

                                                    Squaw Valley kept the temporary ice arena, Blyth Arena, for 20+ years after the Games. No doubt aided by the history that happened inside it: the USA's first ice hockey gold medal and a pair of individual figure skating gold medals for the Americans. The roof collapsed in 1982 after a misguided insulation of the roof - turned out the heat generated from the ice making machines melted the snow off the roof, so once the roof was insulated the snow collapsed the roof!

                                                    It too was a handsomely modernist structure:





                                                    Lillehammer's ice rinks are all still regularly used, although Hakons Hall (the main ice hockey venue) is mostly used for handball with only occasional ice hockey use, as the smaller rinks (Gjovik, which was famously built inside a cave, and Hamar, which was used for figure skating) are more than adequate to meet demand.

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