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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by pakled_engineer on Saturday August 15, 2015 @02:52PM (#10066381)
The local politicians in my city that lured the IOC here through bribes were all later parachuted into lucrative foreign service diplomatic posts and various IOC connected director positions after. That's the true legacy of the games, the politicians raise their profile, network with the world's elite and move into international politics while the rest of us pay for their promotions.

Having the winter olympics in Switzerland only would make sense, easy to secure, neutral country, no forced relocation of "undesireables" like when Beijing shipped every Mongolian migrant laborer out of the city, or when my government mass imprisoned as many homeless as they could by picking them all up for unpaid fines.

No country would have an edge with exclusive track access for months before allowing competitor teams in to practice either.

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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by MichaelGG on Sunday August 16, 2015 @01:03AM (#10068025)
Better yet, do what you can to ignore and shun these corrupt proceedings. The Olympics depends on people treating it as something special. Same for FIFA. Mock people wearing Qatar shirts, just as you would someone promoting homeopathy.
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by diminish on Sunday August 16, 2015 @03:30AM (#10068251)
>> people treating it as something special. Same for FIFA

Formula 1 racing had a similar "fraud" scheme where a lot of countries invested in racing circuits which were left unused then[1]. I remember the politics, media manipulating people into believing they earn billions of dollars in PR for their government investing in circuit construction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits

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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by paganel on Sunday August 16, 2015 @04:59AM (#10068376)
> Mock people wearing Qatar shirts, just as you would someone promoting homeopathy.

I don't this ending well. First of all, the athletes should not get involved in any of this politics stuff. Second, it is well known that all the World Cup and Olympic Games tournaments post 1990 (at least) were awarded based on corruption, even the 2006 World Cup hosted in Germany. So, I don't see any reason to single out the Qataris.

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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by jsprogrammer on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:24PM (#10074615)
Why should an athlete not get involved in "any of this politics stuff"? They are individuals as well and have as much right to political speech, thought, and action as every other individual on the planet.

They may have even been granted a platform where their speech can be more effective because of the respect and attention that many in the world pay those athletes.

Censorship, voluntary or otherwise, should be routinely rejected.

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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by joshkpeterson on Sunday August 16, 2015 @09:50AM (#10068893)
Have you not read about what is going on in Qatar??
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by paganel on Monday August 17, 2015 @05:39AM (#10072047)
Of course I have. But where do we stop? Should we also ban the USA from organizing a future World Cup tournament because of its disastrous foreign policy which has caused unnecessary deaths numbering more than 1 million people in the last 15-20 years? Should we ban Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup because of its Ukraine policy? And so on and so on.
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by seanmcdirmid on Sunday August 16, 2015 @03:55AM (#10068283)
Beijing shipped out the Uyghurs, not the Mongolians (there aren't that many Mongolian migrants to begin with).
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by domador on Saturday August 15, 2015 @03:56PM (#10066608)
What is your city / country?
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by titanomachy on Sunday August 16, 2015 @03:33AM (#10068255)
Sounds like Vancouver, the 2010 hosts.
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by tellthetruth1 on Saturday August 15, 2015 @05:40PM (#10067019)
Oh yeah. Let those Europeans have it. No corruptions! No country would have an edge because no country is within 1000km radius of Switzerland.
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Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time by yitchelle on Saturday August 15, 2015 @06:21PM (#10067174)
Don't forget the quick access to their secret Swiss bank accounts... /sarcasm
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