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GreatGazoo

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2. "In the future only non-Democratic countries will pay up to host the games"

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Sat Jul 25, 2015, 07:35 AM

Jul 2015

After Oslo dropped out last October, only two cities—Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan—are now candidates to host the 2022 winter Olympics, providing further support for a prediction in a 2012 report commissioned by the Dutch government that in the future only non-democratic countries will pay up to host the events. If the IOC, which markets the games as a force for peace and harmony, wants to avoid being turned into a propaganda tool for autocratic regimes, it may need to rethink.

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21645114-hosting-olympics-and-world-cup-bad-citys-health-just-say-no

There should be an automatic ethics probe for any elected official who supports a bid for the games.

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Boston Olympics group releases original, unredacted bid [View all] unhappycamper Jul 2015 OP

KMA--i.e., kiss my ass. We do NOT need this. MADem Jul 2015 #1

"In the future only non-Democratic countries will pay up to host the games" GreatGazoo Jul 2015 #2