Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?
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Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh have all hosted the commonwealth games atleast once, or will host it. The transport links and facilities are all there, and would probrably need a lot less money spent to get them up to olympic standard than was spent building the olympic park. So will they ever host the games?
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?It seems we've done a Ryanair and are holding football matches in Old Trafford, London, Millenium Stadium, London and Hampden Park, London.(Original post by Organ)
I think the IOC want it to be in major cities. Afaik the UK were basically told "London or nothing". -
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?I think the climate in the UK puts the IOC off: I'm surprised London's hosted it three times.
But I'm sure the UK will have a non-London Olympics one day. Although not in 2016 as that's in Rio and I doubt in 2020 either; I predict 2020 will be somewhere in Asia. (For the last 50 years they seem to alternate between the Americas, Europe and Asia, if we group Russia and Australia in with Asia).
In the words of Billy Connolly: "Och, let's just give them it, they're not going to go away! We'll have one rainy Olympics then we can all piss off to somewhere sunny." -
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?Think it was the 2000 games they bid for(Original post by J_Dilla)
Manchester did bid for the '96 olympic games but I don't think they came close to winning. -
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?lolll.(Original post by Cephalus)
I don't see why not. But Chichester 2012 doesn't really cut it. Neither does any other city -
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?Good shout, I do an Olympic Studies module at uni and my tutor works for the IOC. His big tip is Tokyo, he told us all to bet on it(Original post by Acidedge)
I think the climate in the UK puts the IOC off: I'm surprised London's hosted it three times.
But I'm sure the UK will have a non-London Olympics one day. Although not in 2016 as that's in Rio and I doubt in 2020 either; I predict 2020 will be somewhere in Asia. (For the last 50 years they seem to alternate between the Americas, Europe and Asia, if we group Russia and Australia in with Asia).
In the words of Billy Connolly: "Och, let's just give them it, they're not going to go away! We'll have one rainy Olympics then we can all piss off to somewhere sunny."
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?2020 is between Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. I reckon Tokyo will probably get it.(Original post by Acidedge)
I think the climate in the UK puts the IOC off: I'm surprised London's hosted it three times.
But I'm sure the UK will have a non-London Olympics one day. Although not in 2016 as that's in Rio and I doubt in 2020 either; I predict 2020 will be somewhere in Asia. (For the last 50 years they seem to alternate between the Americas, Europe and Asia, if we group Russia and Australia in with Asia).
In the words of Billy Connolly: "Och, let's just give them it, they're not going to go away! We'll have one rainy Olympics then we can all piss off to somewhere sunny."
Hey! They have a good triathlon every year(Original post by Cephalus)
I don't see why not. But Chichester 2012 doesn't really cut it. Neither does any other city
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?lol. Birmingham vs Barcelona.(Original post by TRS-T)
Birmingham bid for 1992 but we lost to Barcelona. -
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?Yeah, you can tell it was probably really close(Original post by Organ)
lol. Birmingham vs Barcelona.
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?Yes.(Original post by Organ)
lol. Birmingham vs Barcelona.
The UK's Second City vs Spain's Second City. -
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?What does that entail?(Original post by hawkesy_1)
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Re: Is any other UK city allowed to host the olympic games?(Original post by hawkesy_1)
Good shout, I do an Olympic Studies module at uni and my tutor works for the IOC. His big tip is Tokyo, he told us all to bet on it
I see someone has updated the Summer Olympic Games Wiki entry with Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul today! It wasn't there when I looked earlier.(Original post by YMLT)
2020 is between Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul. I reckon Tokyo will probably get it.
I can't believe it'll go to Madrid, with the state of the Spanish economy at the moment, but I wouldn't count Istanbul out of the runnings. The Japanese hosted the Summer Games in 1964 and the Winter Games in 1972 and again in 1998, so it would be "fairer" to give the games to the Turks.
