Thursday, August 18, 2011
Rio de Janeiro, hoster of the 2016 olympic games. Do you agree?
For anyone who studied the bids of the 4 finalist cities, it was obvious that Rio's was the worse. The problems are no different than they were during Rio's 3 previous failed attempts to host the Olympics; a very poor infrastructure, lack of sufficient hotel space, very poor and non specific planning, very vague doentation and specifics as to where all of the funding will come from and rampant violent crime at epidemic proportions, with police and government officials unable to safegurard the lives of their own citizens, let alone anyone else. Madrid on the other hand had the best bid. After their failed attempt to host the 2012 Olympics, they took some of the funding that they had already received and invested it in their infrastructure and new projects to enhance their 2016 Olympic bid. Try asking Rio officials what they did with the money that they had collected for their failed 2012 bid. Tokyo's bid was second best. Chicago's bid was doomed from the start because of the results of the many polls that were taken, which indicated that a large segment of the population there did not want the Olympics and felt that the money should be better spent on more important priorities, more beneficial to the general populace. There were also a number of anti Olympic rallys there, with large turnouts, which obviously did not sit well with the IOC. The bottom line is that Madrid got shafted. Despite their denials to the contrary, the IOC chose Rio only because of the enthusiasm of the people there to have the Olympics and the fact that it was the sentimental favorite, because there had never been an Olympics in South America before. But if the bid was truly supposed to be awaded on merit to the city with the best bid(as the IOC claims), then Rio never should have gotten it. And the IOC did away with the process of visiting each final city to inspect their facilities and infrastructure, quige a while ago, after the Salt Lake City scandal, in which it was discovered that among other things, Salt lake City officials gave the the children of some of the IOC members college scholarships, in order to be awarded the 2002 Winter Olympics, which they eventually were. There were also all expense paid trips to the Super Bowl, as well as special real estate deals. So much for the the people most responsible for awarding the most popular sporting event, which is supposed to signify hard work and fair play.
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