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Your proposal would never work: the Olympics need to be decentralized for it to feel "fair."
by wrsh07 10y ago
Your proposal would never work: the Olympics need to be decentralized for it to feel "fair."
- CiPHPerCoder 10y agoOr instead of one plot of land, build a sufficiently large seafaring vessel and host it at sea?
- fennecfoxen 10y agoAccording to the Internets, which are never wrong, the largest ship ever was this one: http://maritime-connector.com/worlds-largest-ships/ http://maritime-connector.com/worlds-largest-ships/ How do you think this compares with a typical land-based Olympic venue? What other challenges make this idea absurd and ridiculous?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoShell's new Prelude FLNG vessel is even bigger [1], if you call that a ship. It's about five football fields in area IIRC. So still absolutely tiny compared to anything you could host the olympics on. Fun story: I was talking to some Shell people a few years back, about the potential troubles with LNG sloshing in process equipment due to waves. I asked them, why not just make the ship big enough that waves don't affect it as much? They looked at me very strangely for a few seconds before explaining just how big it already is. [1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10496977/Worlds-largest-ship-bigger-than-Empire-State-Building-launches.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10...
- aurelianito 10y agoMaybe one vessel will not be big enough. But a fleet should be able to support every competition but the marathon and have quarters for all the athletes.
- qrendel 10y agoI'm sure they can get more ad revenue if the contestants are forced to compete above shark-infested waters, too!
- aurelianito 10y agoSwimming competitions can even be in them!
- amelius 10y agoOr something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand They already hosted sports events (see the "sport" section of that wikipedia page).
- wrsh07 10y agoHaha I love this idea
- cmurf 10y agoBecause 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.
- eropple 10y ago> 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.)
- the_watcher 10y agoUmm... 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"
- eropple 10y agoAnd if there was a Scottish, Welsh, and Irish league right next door of roughly (though not quite completely) equivalent stature.