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Great call awarding the 2016 Olympics to Rio guys.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ations-slammed-by-olympic-chiefs-9344084.html

London has been secretly asked if it would be able to take over the 2016 Olympics because Brazil is so far behind on preparations, the Evening Standard has learned.

An informal approach was made by Olympics bosses to discover whether enough venues from the triumphant 2012 London Games could be brought back into use.

The disclosure follows growing panic at the International Olympic Committee over the shambles in Rio, where organisers are badly behind schedule.

IOC vice-president John Coates has called Brazil’s preparations “the worst I’ve experienced”. He told a Sydney conference last month that construction had not begun on some venues, infrastructure was significantly delayed and water quality was a major concern with just two years to go.
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This is going to be a disaster.
We'll probably get some idea how bad this summer when the World Cup visits Rio
 
Dekin said:
This is going to be a disaster.
We'll probably get some idea how bad this summer when the World Cup visits Rio
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Not really. Brazil is a country that already had the infrastructure in place to handle the World Cup. They have completely shit the bed building the infrastructure necessary for many of the Olympic events. They are over a year behind on the golf course, and that's just one minor example.
 
Debuting golf at the Olympics one of several countries that have hosted major professional events seems like it would have been a good idea.
 
^^ What he said. Spent 2.5 weeks there between Soph and Jr year. Drank my way around Ipanaema and Copacabana beaches....little beer huts about every 75 yards apart...
 
and where golf is a big tradition. the IOC sucks.

Elon Musk should start our own olympics.
 
seems like they say this with every big event and it pretty much always happens: Greece in 04, South Africa in 2010, Sochi this year
 
BeachBumDeac said:
He's saying it would've been smarter to debut golf in London (because the UK hosts a major championship every year) instead of Rio
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Thanks. Building a golf course specifically for the Olympics seems like even more than the typical waste of money for the Olympics. Maybe just save golf for the host countries that already have courses that could host it. Obviously London would have worked. Does Japan have any courses that would work?
 
There is going to be a staggering lack of productivity in Rio during the World Cup.
 
If they ever have an Olympics in Great Britain again and golf is still an event, it better damn sure be played at St. Andrews.
 
JuiceCrewAllStar said:
It's too bad. Rio is an awesome city.
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Not really. There are parts that are great and many, many areas that are shitholes. There is a reason why the buses and cars ignore the red lights when the sun goes down in the city.

This would be the ultimate insult to their rising star status if they have the Olympics yanked away from them. Just unbelievably insulting when you figure how many emerging and even half-rate countries have hosted the Olympics over the years. Jesus, Mexico pulled it off in 1968. Frigging Mexico! Tokyo in 1964, Seoul in 1988...you could even throw Athens and Barcelona in there.

I think we'll see more substantial progress after the World Cup, but oh woe is Brazil if they don't pull their heads from their asses.
 
Don't forget Atlanta.
 
EatLeadCommie said:
Not really. There are parts that are great and many, many areas that are shitholes. There is a reason why the buses and cars ignore the red lights when the sun goes down in the city.

This would be the ultimate insult to their rising star status if they have the Olympics yanked away from them. Just unbelievably insulting when you figure how many emerging and even half-rate countries have hosted the Olympics over the years. Jesus, Mexico pulled it off in 1968. Frigging Mexico! Tokyo in 1964, Seoul in 1988...you could even throw Athens and Barcelona in there.

I think we'll see more substantial progress after the World Cup, but oh woe is Brazil if they don't pull their heads from their asses.
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LOL, great response from somebody who lives in a gigantic strip mall. Last time you were in Rio?
 
PhDeac said:
Don't forget Atlanta.
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Damn Eric Robert Rudolph.

Atlanta's an example of how the Olympics doesn't mean too much to a local economy.

When Blank finishes the new stadium, I suspect the World Cup will come to Atlanta in the 2020's/30's.
 
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