Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time
by orestisfl on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:39AM
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What does Christianity have to do with Dodekatheism at all? Also, have you seen mount Athos? It's mainly only trees and it's very mountainous http://www.star.gr/publishingimages/2014/08/020814141543_327...
Besides, access to the region is prohibited for women and such a big event would completely fuck up their culture and lifestyle.
Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time
by taejo on Saturday August 15, 2015 @07:31PM
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Well, there are women athletes, so that wouldn't work. (Entry to Mount Athos is only allowed to men)
Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time
by thaumasiotes on Saturday August 15, 2015 @11:14PM
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> The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece.
I don't follow the "logic" here at all. What makes Mount Athos more appropriate than, say, Olympia, the traditional site of the Olympic games?
Re:We should host the Olympics in the same place every time
by dghughes on Sunday August 16, 2015 @12:23AM
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User Gys (above) suggested an uninhabited island but the Mount Athos region is pretty sparse 126 sq miles and 1800 people living there, still technically Greece but not Mount Olympus although sort of near it (100 miles away).
I don't mean literally on Mount Athos but in the autonomous region.
Plus being an autonomous region I thought it may more sense financially for taxes.
What better place to hold games originally religious in nature from Greece than this region?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos