Compromise sets 2024 Games in Paris, 2028 in L.A.
The Los Angeles 2024 Olympic Bid Committee has scheduled a news conference for 8 p.m. ET Monday at the StubHub Center, where Mayor Eric Garcetti is expected to announce the city has reached an agreement with the International Olympic Committee to host the 2028 Games.
The decision means Paris will host the 2024 Olympics and marks the return of the Summer Games to the United States for the first time since 1996 in Atlanta. Los Angeles (1932, 1984, 2028) and Paris (1900, 1924, 2024) will join London as the only cities to host three Olympic Games.
Has anyone ever been to the Olympics before? I've always wanted to go, and this seems to be far enough out that I might be able to make it work for once. Wondering if a trip like that would be worth it.
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Nope. Still won't have any money.
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My family went to Atlanta the week after the closing ceremony. Got to see the venues, the Olympic village and meet a few of the athletes from the US and other places. That was awesome so I can't wait to see the actual events.
My best friend made it to the one in London and had a good time. The more popular events will sell out quickly and cost a lot. But you can get tickets to events as long as you plan for it. He even went to Judo and had like front row seats and didn't even know it until showing up.
I'd love to go and take the kids since they'll be old enough by then!
I know where I'll be in 11 years.
Stuck in traffic on the 405
4 o 5 miles an hour.
I plan on going to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics with some friends which I'm super excited for. Been to Japan quite a few times for work but it'll be a whole different beast with the Summer Olympics involved. That plus I trust Japan to try its damnedest to one-up Beijing's Opening Ceremony.
8 years may juuuuust be enough time to recover from the shoryuken to my finances' gut in 2020 to explore the possibility of attending LA 2028.
...probably not
Very cool. I too am planning in Tokyo 2020. I have been to Japan a number of times for business and to visit family. The Olympics there should be really incredible but incredibly expensive! I am trying to take a while extended family so it will be quite the financial challenge!
My wife and I went to the last two Summer Olympics (London and Rio) and we had a blast! London was more of a learning experience because we didn't buy enough tickets ahead of time. We thought we'd be able to scalp tickets at each venue, but we were wrong. By the time Rio rolled around, we were much more prepared. If you want tickets to the best events, you have to enter a lottery system and purchase them one year in advance. We were fortunate enough to win tickets to 19 different events and got to see plenty of amazing moments. We watched Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Justin Gatlin, Beach Volleyball and the USA Men's and Women's Basketball Teams. We even got to see Hokie Kristi Castlin win a bronze medal in the 100m hurdles. I can assure you that we will be in Tokyo in 2020, Paris in 2024 and LA in 2028.
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My parents live in ATL, and volunteered for the Olympics when it was there. My dad was in charge of maintaining a jump in the steeple chase part of the horse park. Almost everyone who could take enough time off to train and do it was give a position volunteering somewhere. He got several tickets for doing so, but with a lot family coming we all went in on lottery tickets to go with them. The way it worked then was you put in for a certain number of tickets per day, and gave an ordered four choices of events you want tix for for each day. The only first choice we got was a track and field pre-lim, but we did get one of our choices for every session we applied for. Not sure if that helps, or even if it is still done the same way.
I wonder how many billion the City will spend on new facilities or are they actually going to use existing venues?
well, if you use existing venues, you can't use new construction/imminent domain to clear out some of the less desirable areas of the city. Come on, sheeple, did we learn nothing from Rio? The Olympics only exists to use the excuse of national pride to bulldoze slums. /s
Ah Rio, the only Olympics where people were afraid to get in the water for open water events.
That escalated quickly.
Though accurately.
LA has no need to build any new permanent venues.
They'll end up building a temporary venue at Santa Monica Pier for beach volleyball, and probably temporary seating at whatever venues where the water sports like rowing, kayaking, etc.
Other than that, they'll utilize the existing venues that are already built, will be complete (in the case of LAFC's new soccer stadium, the Rams/Chargers new stadium, the previously planned LA Convention Center expansion).
Here I am pitching yet another BS Podcast, but Simmons just interviewed the guys behind the LA bid. Really interesting stuff, and they managed to convince me that this is one of the few Olympic bids that might not ruin the host city for years to come.
I am actually really glad to hear that. It has gotten crazy with the one ups man ship that has been going on leading to financial ruin for some of these locations.
Salt lake city broke even, even after accounting for the cost of building the light rail system
Atlanta didn't lose money with the agreements they had in place with Turner
So apparently the IOC is tossing around the idea of eSports during the 2024 Olympics in Paris
http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/20286757/paris-open-esports-comp...
Yeah I just don't get it. Having Olympic video gaming just seems.... off
If shooting is an Olympic sport I don't see it as a great leap to include eSports as well. You could even make the argument that there's more exertion involved in eSports than shooting. The IOC is always trying to expand viewership. That being said I doubt this would actually get that many more eyeballs on the Olympics outside of Korea.
Why have soccer in when you can just have a FIFA tournament. Maybe Duck Hunt can replace the shooting sports too.
FTFY
Have you tried shooting in any of the styles used in Olympic games? It requires some serious self control. Arm strength is a must. In the case of biathlon, these people are skiing longish distances, controlling heart rate and breathing in an effort to hit a tiny target with a .22.
Definitely worthy of Olympic sport status.
I think the reference was to air rifle/pistol
Men's pistol is firing a .22 at 50 meters. The 10 ring is just under 4" in diameter. The entire target is a little less than 20 inches in diameter. Consistently getting near the 10 ring requires some serious skill and body control. Assuming an 8" barrel, a movement away from center of around 1 hundredth of an inch would cause you to miss the 10 ring.
Darts should be in the olympics, too.
Have you tried competitive gaming? I know it sounds like nothing because it's a video game, but football is just a game too. The people who game professionally work at it a tremendous amount to get to that level, and it does require a pretty darn good sense of perception, fine muscle control, and muscle memory.
I'm sorry, I don't buy this argument. I can't get behind e-sports as an olympic sport, especially if its basically advertising for one particular game developer. Now....MAYBE if it was something like a competition on ANY game
(on any system) decided right before the competition, maybe I'd be down. Almost something like this:
That'd be like saying if it was any sport decided right before the competition.
I understand why people are skeptical but each different game requires vastly different sets of skills. Is it a 1v1 game like Starcraft that requires insane task management and large picture strategy? Is it a game like Dota or League of Legends that requires teamwork, timing, and strategic planning to take a win, is it a game like CSGO where fast twitch reactions are king and you manage an economy. Hell, it could be like 50 other competitive games like Halo, Hearthstone, HOTS, FIFA, Super Smash, Street Fighter, or a game that's not even out yet. There are so many competitive leagues out there.
And to the earlier "not many views" the last world finals for League of Legends brought in over http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-new-sports-industry-is-blossoming-online-and-its-already-worth-billions-2015-05-29 viewers. That's the same as the NCAA basketball final. And eSports is just really starting to take off professionally with quality streams, production, analysis, commentary, etc.
Working on a college campus, it's going to be a force in the future. And it's competition the world can take part in.
Poker got a lot of views 10 years ago
I don't think there has ever been any real push to make that part of the OIympics. I see the popularity of these eSports being the same in that it gets real popular for a couple years, and then people lose interest quickly.
The difference between poker and eSports though is that poker never really grew internationally. America got into Poker. The World is getting into eSports.
I don't think eSports really belongs in the Olympics, but I also don't think it's a fad
This is the best, most measured take I've seen on this. Well done.
^ This
I'm certainly not comparing biathlon to eSports, but I'm not convinced that Olympic air pistol takes that much more effort than this.
It certainly doesn't demand this kind of dexterity.
1st Olympic experience:
My work took me to Sweden in 1994, and at the end of the project the Olympics had started in Lillehammer... and I decided to "wing it".
I asked the qestions, and the recommended way to get there was rent a car to reach Oslo, then ride a series of school busses north (while picking up and dropping off school kids).
At the end of the "school bus ferry system" there was a half dozen cabs waiting to carry folks the rest of the way up the mountain.
I was not alone in taking this route, as there seemed to be no better way of getting from Oslo to Lillehammer. And Oslo is the nearest city.
When I got to Olympic village there were more cameramen than spectators. Rented a room above a pizza restaraunt for $50 per night.
It was an interesting experience, much different than it was going to Salt Lake City. LA will be nothing like either.