Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika

Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by cmurf on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:09PM (#11789036)

Because when they were held on Olympia for how many hundreds of years it didn't work and were considered unfair?

The United States has hosted eight olympics and there are about that many countries that never have. London has hosted it three times, Madrid ever has. And so on. The current method is already distinctly unfair. So I don't see how centralizing it into its own nation, like it once was, makes it worse than now.

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by eropple on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:15PM (#11789075)

> Because when they were held on Olympia for how many hundreds of years it didn't work and were considered unfair?

Probably because there were three other games--Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian--that were held at other sites around the Hellenic world? And the "world" was small enough that the sites of each didn't feel inaccessible to (much of) the citizenry of the competing states?

(I find the Olympics generally disappointing and I have no love for them as an event, but a partial view of history doesn't really help anyone.)

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by the_watcher on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:39PM (#11789573)

Umm... what? You realize that those Olympics were not remotely global, right? That holds as much value as suggesting that England host it because "they host the EPL every year and no one thinks it's unfair"

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by eropple on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:03PM (#11789690)

And if there was a Scottish, Welsh, and Irish league right next door of roughly (though not quite completely) equivalent stature.

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