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There's a reason the locations are trending towards being hosted in corrupt places where the leaders don't care if they're profitable so long as they get their

• ggsp 10y ago
  Such as London and Tokyo?
  • the_watcher 10y ago
    No, like Beijing, Sochi, and Rio.
  • amake 10y ago
    Tokyo, yeah. It's former governor Ishihara's prestige play that he pushed for years and years. I don't know any normal people that actually wanted it. And since it was decided there's been scandal after scandal about the logo, about the new stadium, about $2M in mysterious wire payments, etc.
    • imron 10y ago
      Almost every logo had its scandal - London with Lisa giving Bart head, Beijing with its begging peasant, Sydney with the Chicken Head. I remember the lead up to the Sydney Olympics and no-one seemed to want it - then it arrived and it was an amazing 2 weeks long party and everyone loved it. Beijing on the other hand was the converse - everyone was expecting it and looking forward to it and then it came and the city went in to virtual lockdown. You never know which way it's going to go.