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asdf32 posted:Hence hosting in a major city doesn't require building much. Boston has 4 major sports teams and 142 colleges with facilities which were covering most things. Fenway wouldn't be available for the entire two weeks because it's during baseball season (it's also old and fairly small), Gillette is out in Foxborough and inaccessible via public transit, and TD Garden is an indoor arena (that would, at least, be available). There are a number of college stadiums as well, but even Harvard Stadium only has a capacity around 30k (and it is old/ugly). The one thing that bid had going for it was that there'd be tons of dorm space available for housing, but even then a lot of that space is not in the city proper. Bob Kraft really wanted to move the Patriots' stadium to South Boston (i think), but even that wasn't the best idea due to kicking out various employers there and would have involved several hundred million dollars from the city to build a stadium for the benefit of private companies. In contrast, Olympic stadium was built in London for their games and has a capacity of 60k.
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That's slightly misleading - I mean clearly the walls on the highway conceal the shantytowns but that's probably not why they were built. They were built probably to stop stray fire from the gangs and keep them from robbing/shooting drivers like so http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mes-Brazil.html
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 02:58 |
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isn't the daily mail in the business of sensationalism and distortion?
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:34 |
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Real hurthling! posted:isn't the daily mail in the business of sensationalism and distortion? You are correct, it is, in fact, a British newspaper.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 04:41 |
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Just about every terrorist organization has aspired to send delegates to the Olympics since the Munich games. Going to be interesting how well this perceived security clusterfuck works to prevent ISIS from medaling in the 100m Daesh.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 13:36 |
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Gawker actually had a good summary of the things hosed in Brazil today. http://gawker.com/all-the-reasons-the-rio-olympics-are-hosed-1782463214
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:11 |
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CheeseSpawn posted:Gawker actually had a good summary of the things hosed in Brazil today. Yeah, I saw this earlier. What a clusterfuck.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:22 |
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remember when everyone marveled over the 'disaster' Sochi was going to be
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:35 |
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AriadneThread posted:remember when everyone marveled over the 'disaster' Sochi was going to be Indeed. A cat taking out a drop ceiling is funny. A swarm of mosquitos descending from that drop ceiling is scary as gently caress.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:37 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Indeed. A cat taking out a drop ceiling is funny. A swarm of mosquitos descending from that drop ceiling is scary as gently caress. oh to have those days back
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:43 |
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CheeseSpawn posted:Gawker actually had a good summary of the things hosed in Brazil today. But I'm pretty sure four years from now, I will remember Rio already has a confirmed body count with superbug poo poo in the water. And that's not counting whatever terrible tragedies that are yet to occur, but are pretty much inevitable at this point.
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# ? Jul 6, 2016 17:48 |
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I think the London comments were more to the idea that the ceremonies were going to be boring artsy bullshit (remember, they had a tough act to follow with the Beijing Olympics) and everything else would be a wash. I actually had assumed that that was really what happened and Romney was right.
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# ? Jul 7, 2016 00:48 |
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Cliff Racer posted:I think the London comments were more to the idea that the ceremonies were going to be boring artsy bullshit (remember, they had a tough act to follow with the Beijing Olympics) and everything else would be a wash. I actually had assumed that that was really what happened and Romney was right. Nah, it was good times. The ceremonies were fun, the events went off great, the atmosphere in the city was weirdly positive and the traffic was only somewhat more of a complete clusterfuck than usual. I mean I'm sure it was annoying as gently caress for some, but my friend who lives in London enjoyed the whole thing, despite her commute being trashed by broadcasters camped out near Russell Square.
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# ? Jul 7, 2016 01:05 |
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Oh, I meant for the rest of the world, I didn't care how London itself felt. Maybe its just that I've grown up and unless there's an interesting geopolitical aspect like Beijing or Athens then it seems boring?
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# ? Jul 7, 2016 01:09 |
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quote:The Australian Olympic Committee has become so concerned about security in Rio it has seen fit to hire a private firm to be on standby to protect the national team in the games' host city. Oh great now we're going to have feuding PMC's guarding particular countries.
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# ? Jul 7, 2016 14:47 |
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Kitty Chiller
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# ? Jul 7, 2016 14:53 |
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AriadneThread posted:Kitty Chiller It doesn't matter how chill you are, she's Chiller.
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Cliff Racer posted:Oh, I meant for the rest of the world, I didn't care how London itself felt. Maybe its just that I've grown up and unless there's an interesting geopolitical aspect like Beijing or Athens then it seems boring?
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Cliff Racer posted:Oh, I meant for the rest of the world, I didn't care how London itself felt. Maybe its just that I've grown up and unless there's an interesting geopolitical aspect like Beijing or Athens then it seems boring? In what way was the London Olympics a disaster for the rest of the world? Sport was promised, sport was delivered. What else do you need?
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Comrade Fakename posted:In what way was the London Olympics a disaster for the rest of the world? Sport was promised, sport was delivered. What else do you need? Good ceremonies, good stadium architecture (the main stadium was small and thus wimpy and there weren't many others built either, though I remember being impressed by the natatorium,) and hopefully some sort of athletic x-factor (which is really outside of the host's hands unless you are China and purposely fund teams in obscure sports for the purpose of winning the most medals.) An interesting landscape probably would have helped too, I despise the glass box/abstract object nature of the City of London's skyline. London's Olympic marketing was also bland and unappealing in my eyes. Like those overly corporate mascots China had? At least people still remember them, I can't even recall what London's thing was? I wanted to say that it was the potato people but that was Athens. FWIW I thought Athens sucked too. Perhaps we just shouldn't give Europe any Olympics for awhile. London, Athens, Turin? Not much of a track record, I was tuned out during Sochi and don't know how that went other than the half built toilet pictures and apparent doping operation that went on in it.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 00:47 |
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Cliff Racer posted:Like those overly corporate mascots China had? At least people still remember them, I can't even recall what London's thing was? I wanted to say that it was the potato people but that was Athens. The London mascots were two anthropomorphized surveillance cameras, looked sorta like Teletubbies but with giant eyes instead of heads.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 02:22 |
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Hmm, you know what, I think I was perfectly happy having forgotten about those things. Thankfully I'll probably return to that state five minutes from now.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 02:24 |
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build olympic island in the middle of international waters no better olympic station in earth orbit
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 02:28 |
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I know they weren't really, but to me London's mascots will always be Lisa giving Bart a blowjob.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 02:33 |
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AriadneThread posted:build olympic island in the middle of international waters I mean we aren't using Antarctica for anything right? It's supposed to be the global continent.
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Rookersh posted:I mean we aren't using Antarctica for anything right? It's supposed to be the global continent. that's for the winter olympics, duh
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AriadneThread posted:no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TICjEsvC8o
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Lid posted:Oh great now we're going to have feuding PMC's guarding particular countries. Finally, we will have the PMC Olympics and witness their bloody war games.
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# ? Jul 9, 2016 04:24 |
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Have some more!quote:POLICE attempts to recapture a drug trafficker who escaped from a Brazilian hospital have led to deadly gunbattles in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. quote:Human Rights Watch released a report on Thursday noting that police are responsible for 20% of all killings in Rio state. Three-quarters of the victims are black men, many of them killed in extrajudicial executions. Although many officers are also murdered, the groups observes that police in Rio killed 24 people for each officer who dies on duty, which is triple the level in the US. Very few are ever punished.
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AriadneThread posted:build olympic island in the middle of international waters Pretty sure Lonely Island did a music video that was exactly that on SNL once. Edit: https://youtu.be/4TICjEsvC8o davebo fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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Right now I’m really excited about the fact that Monica Moorehead and Lamont Lilly of the Workers World Party have called for U.S. Olympic athletes to stage a Black Lives Matter boycott of the 2016 Olympics in Rio: http://www.workers.org/2016/07/08/an-appeal-to-black-athletes-boycott-the-olympics-until-black-lives-matter/#.V4J4zvkrKM8 I totally think Jill Stein and the Green Party should immediately embrace this call for a Black Lives Matter boycott of the Olympics! This will be a great way to build the progressive revolutionary movement for a better world and for the liberation of black and brown peoples and will also be a great way of working to position the Green Party as a major force within this progressive revolutionary movement! If the Green Party keeps respecting and acknowledging the important ways that socialist groups are contributing to the ongoing lefty revolutionist movement, it will also be a splendid way of promoting left unity and strengthening the Red-Green-People-of-Color Alliance that is continuing to develop. With this in mind, I have made a 10-and-a-half minute youtube video featuring 2 parts that are each a bit more than 5 minutes long. In the first part of the video, I can be seen talking about the call for a Black Lives Matter boycott of the 2016 Olympics and encouraging Jill Stein and the Green Party to embrace this call for a boycott. The second part of the video features about 5 minutes of footage of a Jill Stein speech/rally that I recently attended. Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut7Aaz4GfW8 Boycott the 2016 Olympics! Black Lives Matter! Fight for a Better World! Hasta la Victoria Siempre!
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# ? Jul 10, 2016 20:15 |
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CheeseSpawn posted:Gawker actually had a good summary of the things hosed in Brazil today. I know news organisations like to embellish things, but even if only half of this is true, drat.
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 06:01 |
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-olympics-could-use-a-mulligan-on-golf-1468366791 Incidental to Rio, the clusterfuck that is Olympic Golf. Of course being Rio note the bit about they didn't have a golf course so they bull dozed a nature reserve between high rises.
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Lid posted:http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-olympics-could-use-a-mulligan-on-golf-1468366791 "These people should be ashamed for choosing to play in tournaments where they can earn millions of dollars instead of volunteering to play for free in a poo poo-water infested hellhole so that other people can get rich."
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Inferior Third Season posted:And, of course, Slate gonna Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2016/07/rory_mcilroy_jason_day_and_dustin_johnson_should_be_ashamed_of_using_zika.html That is a horrible summary of the article and you should be ashamed. He's saying it's disingenuous to blame Zika when they really just don't want to participate for a host of other reasons, including financial concerns. Did you even read the whole article?
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 14:58 |
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No, that's a pretty good summary of the article actually. As much as Zika probably isn't the only reason they aren't going to Rio, my guess is if the tournament were being played somewhere without poo poo-water, violence, etc (in effect, if the olympics were being held in a first world country), many of these golfers would choose to go. I suppose it's unfair to blame Zika entirely, but I don't think it's unfair to blame the fact that Rio is, more generally, a shithole with many problems.
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 16:17 |
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Blaming Zika is, in a way, protecting their families. The alternative is calling Brazil a shithole and the Olympics a shambles, at the risk of incurring the wrath of Brazilians everywhere, as well as the the criminals behind it.
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PT6A posted:No, that's a pretty good summary of the article actually. I have to disagree. The slate editor isn't saying that they should go to the Olympics or that all the other issues aren't important. He's just calling them out for not being honest about it. They've all decided that they're not interested for varying reasons, and he didn't begrudge anyone choosing not to attend. He specifically said in the article that stating "I'm not going because I would rather compete for money" is a perfectly valid reason, and he believes it's the main reason most of them aren't going. Inferior Third Season is misquoting the article by claiming that it's calling them out for their actual reasons rather than their stated reasons.
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# ? Jul 13, 2016 16:58 |
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In New York is the first ever confirmed case of a female to male zika transmission thrpugh sex.
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Russia is staying in the Olympics! This is bad news for then as the athletes have nowhere to live!quote:The troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games have arrived at their first major crisis, less than two weeks before the opening ceremony.
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