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Posted by DAND124 on Sun Aug 12 19:21:25 2012 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsRKTmSgsXvFaaRiW67wyKHWn61Q?docId=3f0711e1d8b44edc935299adeb8e613dU.S. Olympic leaders and their athletes are having such a great time at the London Games, they'd like to host a party like this, too, someday soon. "We think the games need to come to America, and the sooner, the better," Larry Probst, chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Saturday at a news conference. When the team returns home, a USOC panel will look into whether the federation should bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics or the 2026 Winter Games. The United States hasn't hosted the Olympics since the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City and hasn't hosted a Summer Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta. With 41 medals left to be awarded at the Olympics as of Saturday afternoon, the United States had won both the most overall (95) and gold (41) medals. Pleased as he was with that, USOC CEO Scott Blackmun also noted that Britain was in third place in the gold-medal count with 26 — part of its best medal haul since the 1908 London Olympics. He acknowledged that competing on home turf can provide the home country's athletes with a huge boost. "It really gives the athletes life," Blackmun said. "We expect Brazil will have quite a few athletes that will rise to the podium and have lifetime bests" in four years at the Rio Games. "It's a fact of life in the Olympic world," Blackmun said. "It's one of the reasons we'd like to host the games in the U.S. in the not-too-distant future." America's last two bid cities — New York for 2012 and Chicago for 2016 — were roundly rejected by the International Olympic Committee. The USOC decided to pass on bidding for the 2020 Games while it shored up its international relationships and resolved its long-running feud with the IOC about revenue sharing. Earlier this summer, the revenue issue was resolved and the USOC got serious about getting into the bid game again. The bid committee is expected to give its first report to the full USOC board at its quarterly meeting in December. Among the key issues will be whether to go for the Winter or Summer Games. Possible winter cities would include Denver, Bozeman, Mont., and Lake Tahoe. Summer candidates could include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. "We'd like to pull off a games just the way London did," Blackmun said. "We need to talk about, should it be '24, should it be '26, what kind of city should we look at? But we definitely look at this experience as something we'd aspire to." |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Aug 12 19:26:50 2012, in response to Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Sun Aug 12 19:21:25 2012. 2032 dual hosts LA/SF connected by HSR. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Aug 12 19:29:11 2012, in response to Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Sun Aug 12 19:21:25 2012. If they bid Denver for the Winter Olympics they should bid it for summer as well so it can be the first city to do both. However the 1976 debacle could hurt Denver's chances, even though it seems like a great place for a winter games. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Aug 12 19:44:09 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Aug 12 19:29:11 2012. Yeah, everyone says that Denver will never get the Winter Olympics after winning and then turning it down in 1976.If 1976 weren't an issue they'd also be capable of hosting the Summer Olympics, but it would have to be in September because Denver can be pretty hot in the summer. One problem would be that it's not near any other cities and isn't a big summer tourist destination so it'd be hard for them to get people to come. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Aug 12 20:04:51 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by Easy on Sun Aug 12 19:44:09 2012. The Sydney Olympics were in September (late winter/early fall). The Atlanta Olympics should have been in September too. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Aug 12 20:17:17 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by Spider-Pig on Sun Aug 12 20:04:51 2012. September is good weather-wise and is also when most of the summer sports have their championships anyway. It's really when it should be except that people normally take vacation earlier in the summer because kids are out of school in many countries. |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Aug 12 22:36:09 2012, in response to Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Sun Aug 12 19:21:25 2012. Philadelphia 2028! |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Aug 12 23:15:55 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by WillD on Sun Aug 12 22:36:09 2012. Philadelphia 2028!Let's see how Rio goes first, and then we'll see if third world cities like Philly can handle the games. :-) |
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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Aug 12 23:17:42 2012, in response to Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Sun Aug 12 19:21:25 2012. Summer candidates could include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.As a local booster, there's a part of me that feels that New York should receive priority given that our international equals (Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, London, and Moscow) have had the Summer games, so New York must have it as well lest we fall behind. On the other hand, if we're going to use the Olympics to showcase one of our secondary and less globally known cities, maybe we should blow our wad on Chicago or San Francisco. If we're really feeling adventurous, maybe we could get away with Seattle or even Washington DC given that city's lukewarm renaissance... Of course, given that the Feds have shown no interest in underwriting an bid, I suspect that North America's next chance may end up being Toronto. |
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Posted by WillD on Sun Aug 12 23:34:38 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Aug 12 23:15:55 2012. Pretty sure that's why they rejected NYC. |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Aug 13 01:35:16 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by Easy on Sun Aug 12 19:44:09 2012. Denver isn't oppressively hot in the summer and as it's the gateway to the Rockies, sees a summer influx of people from all over the world although as you say it's not really a destination. They were wise to back out of the Winter Olympics back then as the way it was set up was a logisitics nightmare.your pal, Fred |
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Posted by DAND124 on Mon Aug 13 01:47:52 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by WillD on Sun Aug 12 22:36:09 2012. I’m not sure if Philadelphia has a high enough international profile (it is better than Atlanta). But otherwise it has a lot of advantages a number of venues are in a single site and there’s room to build more, it has a number of colleges that can be used for housing and secondary venues. Could Lincoln Financial Field be expanded to needed size at least temporarily? Plus Comcast can’t hurt. |
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Posted by DAND124 on Mon Aug 13 01:52:49 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sun Aug 12 23:17:42 2012. The problem NYC had in 2005 was the bid was connected with the stupid west side stadium. The plan all along should have been to have the venues in Queens and New Jersey, but I get the feeling the only time Mayor Nanny enters either is when he gets on his private jet.Los Angeles could host the games with little or no new construction (they two 100,000 seat stadiums). |
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Posted by WillD on Mon Aug 13 03:12:18 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Mon Aug 13 01:47:52 2012. I’m not sure if Philadelphia has a high enough international profileIMHO the universities help with that. Then again, if they get outside the campuses then maybe it'll hurt. But otherwise it has a lot of advantages a number of venues are in a single site and there’s room to build more, it has a number of colleges that can be used for housing and secondary venues. There are a few plans which have illustrated the potential layout of a Philadelphia bid, amongst them this now somewhat obsolete proposal:  Could Lincoln Financial Field be expanded to needed size at least temporarily? That's a good question. I kinda doubt filling in the two gaps in the upper level seating would add more than 10,000 seats to Lincoln Financial Field. Expanding beyond those two additions could be a somewhat expensive undertaking. If we cannot expand Lincoln Financial Field I like the idea of building a new track and field and Olympic stadium on Logan Triangle along with an initial phase of the Roosevelt Blvd subway to tie everything together. If it can't be Philly then I'd love to see DC get the Olympics, if only to see them follow London's lead and put a beach volleyball venue in the middle of the Pentagon. |
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Posted by orange blossom special on Mon Aug 13 10:19:19 2012, in response to Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Sun Aug 12 19:21:25 2012. "Chicago is an example of what makes this country great"It's apparently safer in Rio though to the IOCC. Well, and the G8. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Aug 13 11:25:58 2012, in response to Re: Enjoying London, USOC wants to host Olympics, too, posted by DAND124 on Mon Aug 13 01:52:49 2012. And by 2024, L. A. will have a lot of transit infrastructure. Along with the current Red, Blue, Green Purple, Gold and Expo Lines (although with the Regional Connector, which is scheduled to be in service by 2024, the Expo Line won't exist, as the Gold Line will run from East L. A. to Santa Monica, with the Blue Line running from Long Beach to Pasadena and beyond), there should be the Crenshaw Line, Purple Line to Westwood (serving a likely Olympic venue, UCLA (for the 1984 Games, it was an Olympic Village along w/ USC), possibly a Green Line extension to Torrance, etc. A lot better than 1984, when it was a bunch of SCRTD buses (with some loaners from other agencies brought in) |
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