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The next two Olympics are being held in Paris and Los Angeles. The oil sheikdom World Cup is being followed by one shared between the US, Canada and Mexico. For

The next two Olympics are being held in Paris and Los Angeles. The oil sheikdom World Cup is being followed by one shared between the US, Canada and Mexico. Formula One added events in Miami, Holland and Portugal to the calendar recently along with lomg standing events in several other democracies plus some petrostates and China. The idea that democracies aren't interested in hosting major sporting events isn't based in reality.

mschuster91 4y ago
> The idea that democracies aren't interested in hosting major sporting events isn't based in reality. It's based on all of the contra-Olympic/WC movements that tend to crop up and successfully prevent any talks as soon as even rumors begin floating around. > plus some petrostates and China Out of the last 20 years worth of additions to the F1 calendar, we have Jeddah (Saudi-Arabia), Doha (Qatar), Baku (Azerbaijan), Sochi (Russia), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Istanbul (Turkey), Singapore, Bahrain and Shanghai (China) - which means 17 new tracks, of which nine are in a dictatorship of one or another kind. That's just way too much appeasing to bribery for me.
Kon-Peki 4y ago
Paris and LA were awarded the Olympics as a single decision without the normal bidding process - because there weren't any other legitimate and serious bids being put forward. The 2026 World Cup was awarded to "North America" because the only other bid was from Morocco and FIFA didn't think they had any hope of being able to pull it off. They estimated that Morocco would need to devote 15-25% of their entire GDP just to build the facilities. The North American bid just had a list of cities and stadiums that might host some games and told FIFA to take it or leave it. They only decided on which stadiums they are going to use last month! And the list is missing a bunch of big cities that said "no thanks, we'll pass"!

mschuster91 4y ago

> The idea that democracies aren't interested in hosting major sporting events isn't based in reality. It's based on all of the contra-Olympic/WC movements that tend to crop up and successfully prevent any talks as soon as even rumors begin floating around. > plus some petrostates and China Out of the last 20 years worth of additions to the F1 calendar, we have Jeddah (Saudi-Arabia), Doha (Qatar), Baku (Azerbaijan), Sochi (Russia), Abu Dhabi (UAE), Istanbul (Turkey), Singapore, Bahrain and Shanghai (China) - which means 17 new tracks, of which nine are in a dictatorship of one or another kind. That's just way too much appeasing to bribery for me.

Kon-Peki 4y ago

Paris and LA were awarded the Olympics as a single decision without the normal bidding process - because there weren't any other legitimate and serious bids being put forward. The 2026 World Cup was awarded to "North America" because the only other bid was from Morocco and FIFA didn't think they had any hope of being able to pull it off. They estimated that Morocco would need to devote 15-25% of their entire GDP just to build the facilities. The North American bid just had a list of cities and stadiums that might host some games and told FIFA to take it or leave it. They only decided on which stadiums they are going to use last month! And the list is missing a bunch of big cities that said "no thanks, we'll pass"!