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Behold! The Best Negotiator Strikes Again (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So Obama proposes a plan to an org than is known for saddling cities in debt and they turn the plan down. Trump 'gave them what they wanted to hear' and got the deal done. High IQ business moves right there.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 3 months ago

LOL - The bidding process started in 2015 before Trump was even elected:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bids_for_the_2024_and_2028_Summer_Olympics

By March of 2017, there were only 2 cities in the running, Paris and Los Angeles, so they agreed to split them. Paris in 2024, Los Angeles in 2028.

Trump had fuck all to do with it as usual.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You’re not giving him the credit he is due. He started the first Olympic Games. Without him, we wouldn’t have ever had them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The closing ceremony revolving around the Golden Voyager makes this a thousand times funnier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the TRUMP games. I feel sorry for the people living in the parallel universe where that happens...oh wait...we're still in time to watch that calamity in 2028 if the fucker doesn't lose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Even if he does lose, he'll be running in '28 again and be all over the Olympics because he can't stand anything competing for attention.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Spoiler alert: Mexico's paying for it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Yes, so many countries were vying for the Olympics that the IOC felt the need to award two games at once before anyone else backed out.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I, for one, am eternally grateful that we get to use our tax dollars to build a giant arena to host underpaid, soon-to-be-discarded prime examples of talent who can shit, fuck, and possibly die at our facilities before we never use them again.

We win!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

In Vancouver we turned one of the skating rinks into a multi use community facility that hundreds of people use every day. (see another one of my comments)

Good shit can come out of the games if your city plays it's cards right. But I don't blame you for being skeptical lol. The games were pretty controversial back in the ~~game~~ day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's actually fantastic to know! Obviously, that's not the norm, but keep shouting that from the rooftops to remind people that we're capable of doing better.

Thank you for proving me wrong today!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

There was literally no contest. For latest Olympics there were only two contestant cities Paris and LA. And out of fear that no city even contest for it in 2028 (as lately Olympics are a bad deal for a country, they are a money hole), they agree to preconcede LA the 2028 Olympics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Better LA than where I live... I never want to live in an Olympic city ever.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I might be missing some of the larger municipal budget stuff but as a Vancouverite, they were awesome. We now have a subway direct to the airport and through a large suburb that needed transit and expanded the highway to one of our best local ski mountain.

And damn the vibe and party was rocking.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Olympics is pretty infamous for absolutely wrecking and bankrupting a city chosen to host it. I think North American cities typically break that mold but it's usually pretty bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh absolutely, I've heard that about a few. Just, as far as I know, it basically worked out for us. I guess I'm kinda bragging? Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I lived in Park City for a year and have been to lake placid a few times, both seem better off for hosting the games. Maybe it's a winter Olympics thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think it's also an economics thing. Sochi is a ghost town, because after the games ended, there was no basis to support the stadiums and infrastrcture. Cities like Rio and Athens built up to host the village of international competitions, but there was no funding to keep them up after it was all over. Vancouver, Sydney, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Beijing, these are thriving cities with high concentrations of wealth that planned for how to repurpose the infrastructure after the games. The residential spaces became hotels or were otherwise repurposed, and the stadiums and training facilities are being used for sports and recreation.

People still visit Salt Lake City, Utah, to ski the slopes where the Olympics were held. Meanwhile, Sarajevo can't reopen the ski jump or the bobsled track from 1984 because of the land-mines left there in the 90s.

So it's probably not as much winter/summer as it is have/have-not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Vancouver definitely seemed to avoid most of the negative effects most cities face. One of the rinks built for the games (The Olympic Oval i think is the official name) is now a community center with 2 hockey rinks, ~8 basketball sized multi-use courts, a fitness center, about dozen ping pong tables, and probably more I'm not aware of.

It's quite far from where I live so I don't use it often but last year I was part of a sports league that used the facility and I was completely blown away. On any given day there are probably 100+ people using the courts, playing basketball, volleyball etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

If you live in Denver, you maybe in luck. Looks like they pissed off the IOC pretty good.

"In a statewide referendum on 7 November 1972, Colorado voters rejected funding for the games, and for the first (and only) time a city awarded the Winter Games rejected them."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Winter_Olympics

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Sure, Don…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

*hopefully you will not be president and by 2028 I can only assume your old ass will be pushing up daisies Rest in piss ya orange clown for ye shall not be missedb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Pfft, art of the steal should be his motto, all he does is tale credit for shit other folks do