Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika

Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by alkonaut on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:24PM (#11789143)

Or just hand it to states/cities that can manage it - I.e. has ALL arenas already built, has enough hotels and so on.

It would then pretty much be the last 5 mega-venues (Beijing, London, ...) that could tanke turns re-doing it. Which would be a good thing.

Next option is not having it in one place. It can be a global event. It wouldn't matter if athletics is in Berlin while all the cycling is in Madrid. Would only be worse for on-site fans.

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by the_watcher on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:36PM (#11789537)

Unfortunately, that reduces opportunities for graft and corruption in the cities that host them, as well as eliminates the main source of bribes that IOC leaders thrive on. Simply won't happen.

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by toyg on Friday May 27, 2016 @07:39PM (#11789840)

... and on-site athletes. A lot of the buzz in the sports community is the dream of sharing the Olympic Village, with all that it entails.

A distributed Olympic would just be a synchronised "World Championship" (events that would then lose all significance, btw, further shrinking budgets). Not gonna happen.

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by Retric on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:37PM (#11789222)

Security gets harder the more locations you have. But, even just splitting in half within the same country could save a lot of pointless waste.

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