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Old 12-15-2018, 06:49 PM
 
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Only because you hate [greater] Denver.

Since when is hosting the Olympics a bad thing? Everyone out here is pumped for the L.A. Summer games in 2028. This is an overly surly thread.
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Old 12-15-2018, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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Who wanted a privately funded olympics anyhow? We need to spend tax dollars.
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Old 12-15-2018, 10:05 PM
 
Location: Aurora, CO
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Since when is hosting the Olympics a bad thing? Everyone out here is pumped for the L.A. Summer games in 2028. This is an overly surly thread.
Hosting them isn't the problem. Doing the build out is. So much money wasted on greasing palms and building shoddy, garbage infrastructure. Plus, the Olympics jumped the shark after the Cold War ended. I haven't actively watched the games in over 20 years.
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Old 12-15-2018, 10:52 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Some Olympics have been calculated to generate a profit for a city, but that's essentially when there are quite a few venues and lodging that are already created or only need minor alteration rather than the wholesale creation of much more.
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Old 12-16-2018, 05:40 AM
 
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I've been told there's a curling venue in Golden. What else would we need?!
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Old 12-16-2018, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Colorado Springs
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I've been told there's a curling venue in Golden. What else would we need?!
CO has the ability to provide a lot of the venues but ones we would need to add are speed skating arena, ski jumping, bobsled/sliding sports, as well as a village to house all the athletes, trainers, etc. A big logistics drawback of CO is not all of the places we have now are within 30-60 minutes of where ever the Olympic Village and stadium would be, so we would have to provide mass transit improvements to those events that are a couple hours away or reconstruct those facilities nearer the metro areas.

But, the fact remains that you do not kick the IOC in the nads and then expect them to be your best buddy again, even decades later.
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Old 12-16-2018, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Pearl City, HI
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Denver and Colorado have nothing to showcase anyway!
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Old 12-17-2018, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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I don't see the benefit of building a new venue here in Colorado when a perfectly suitable location is only 7 hours down the road. As long as the event is in the US, what is so bad about reusing a location?
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Old 12-17-2018, 11:33 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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I'm heartbroken. I was so looking forward to the hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars of wasteful, completely unnecessary spending that hosting the games would've brought to the region.

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/12/1...-olympics-bid/
no brainer really, Salt Lake has a history of successfully hosting the games and Denver has a history of not hosting the games.
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Old 12-19-2018, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Taos NM
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Since when is hosting the Olympics a bad thing? Everyone out here is pumped for the L.A. Summer games in 2028. This is an overly surly thread.
LA hosted the most cost effective Olympics when they had them. Congrats to them on that. I think they should put it back in SLC. I would like to dream that one day the Olympics will be in a revolving circuit of cities which keep facilities for the games in running condition. I don't know if that will ever happen.

I don't think Denver needs economic growth or national attention to justify throwing out enough money to steal them away from SLC.
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