That would be no biggie.
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Hamburg, Paris, LA, Budapest or Rome then?
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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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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostAt 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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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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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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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View PostI 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.
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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.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThe 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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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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