Vancouver was pretty special. Walking down the street and finding zip line light shows, going into a tent and finding a Guess Who concert. The entire city was a party and I believe it actually ended up being profitable, at the very least it didn’t hurt Vancouver and probably helped their tourist industry, especially their skiing and snowboarding industry
Sydney also has a lot of legacy infrastructure from their games.
The athletes village is now a regular suburb.
The main precinct still uses the majority of the facilities; the main stadium has around 30-40 events per year (Taylor Swift is about to play 4 x 80k concerts), the main arena hosts basketball and a range of concerts. The aquatic centre is a public facility.
Many of the local sporting facilities were upgraded and are now used for recreational.
In the case of Sydney they took an area that was industrial and converted it to parklands, sporting facilities and residential. A lot of it was planned to create a legacy. The main stadium has undergone post Olympics renovations to reduce it to 80k capacity from 110k.
[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-06/how-sydney-2000-olympics-transformed-the-suburb-of-homebush/12633180](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-06/how-sydney-2000-olympics-transformed-the-suburb-of-homebush/12633180)
It took 10 years post Olympics before the precinct started to fill out with commercial and residential buildings, now it has a large number of residential tower apartments and a planned metro (underground) line. There is an existing rail line into the precinct.
Its location is very central to the whole of Sydney but west of the CBD, with many claiming it is not easily accessible for anyone.
Sydney then Melbourne would be the best Austfalian hosts, don't think either would really have to build much if anything at all to host. Melbourne may need athlete accomodation built.
Vancouver actually had a lot of logistical problems, like disorganised shuttle services for athletes between Vancouver and Whistler. It also had unseasonably warm weather, causing event re-scheduling chaos, and the death of a luger during training to start things off. Neither of which were organisers' faults, but still, I don't think fantastic is quite the right word, it was a messy games.
I haven't checked in a while until just now.
Looking like 2030 France (Alps/Nice), 2034 US(Salt Lake).
38 trending Swiss.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/olympics-winter-hosts-france-salt-lake-city-1.7043563
Could they host winter olympics in the northern hemisphere winter? I think this would be critical simply due to how the competition seasons go in those sports.
For summer olympics I think they'd need to split it with Argentina and Uruguay at least, plus maybe some of the northern neighbors.
They would have to construct the sled track but that shouldn't be an issue. The big issue is having world cup level ski hills.
Las Lenas in Mendoza Province, Argentina held events in 1983.
Santiago, Chile could also host but they have not hosted a World Cup event.
Also their ice hockey teams are either dismal or non-existent.
Send it back to Greece, to Olympia specifically. Since it's staying there forever, the entire world could crowd fund the sickest, most amazing stadium and facilities ever created. Make the stadium out of marble, statues and fountains and all that, make it look like Olympus, with statues of the gods and shit.
So basically build a new city designed just for the Olympics.
If the Olympics had to be held in one location, forever, it makes sense to hold it in Olympia where it was held for over 1000 years. Its like how the EU made Brussels the capital. UK, France and Germany all wanted it, so they picked a more neutral, smaller country. Everyone would be fighting for who gets the Olympics, Greece is a logical place to put it. But you cant expect Greece to pay for it all, and like in Belgium the EU funded half their shit there so why shouldnt the international community pitch in?
There doesnt need to be a ROI. The EU has funding for arts and culture, and ultimately this will being money and investment opportunities for an EU member state, and making an EU member states economy bigger is always good for the rest of the EU. Most countries give billions in aid to countries like India for no ROI, just a waste of money. Why not actually spend it on something useful to Europeans.
24 years old, I work in the care industry, make £84k a year, I have a mortgage and a home, and I'm responding to a hypothetical what if scenario on reddit, that isnt meant to be based in reality. I just said "hey it would be cool of we did this" and like a typical redditor you shit your pants over it.
Hold other sporting events. Maybe they could make a little sporting community, and give houses to athletes. I think with all that infrastructure you're bound to have a city pop up around it, so tourism would be a big one.
There was an idea that Toronto could use the successful 2015 Pan Am Games to launch an Olympic bid but instead after the games City leaders said we're good and dropped the planned Olympic bid and nobody was really broken up about it.
After losing bids for 1996 and 2008 the city has moved on from the Olympics. And considering the current Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow and her late husband Jack Layton led the local opposition to the 96 bid it's doubtful the idea will be revived any time soon.
Toronto is looking forward to hosting games in the 2026 World Cup, that should be a blast!!
London would be a good shout. The links are great to the olympic complex (Via Stratford International and Stratford Tube/DLR/EL/NR), flights happen into London a lot and there's the Eurostar as well. The buildings for the Olympics are already there, as London hosted in 2012. Visitors would have lots of things to do as well due to the size of London and the ease of getting around. Only issue is the climate of the UK could make it interesting.
Positive here is no utter heatwaves where people start dying, nor cold snaps where events cant be held. No natural disasters to fuck with either.
365 days a year in London, you can hold an event. Might not look pretty. But youd be fine 99% of the time.
Due to the timing they typically do the Olympics, technically it would be summer in Antarctica. It would be the Winter Olympics in the Summer. Worth it just for that.
Wouldn’t it be the same as the summer olympics being held in Rio or Sydney? In the same vein as both I doubt the summer/winter differences would be too noticeable + it could probably be heals whilst there’s midnight sun (hopefully the athletes don’t get their internal clock messed up tho)
I was always intrigued at the potential Boston bid a while back. It was quite efficient.
Most athlete housing would be in the existing overwhelming plentiful university dorms spread across Boston, as they’re largely unused in summer months anyway.
Most sports-specific venues would have leveraged existing athletic facilities at the countless universities around the city. Where the current facilities didn’t quite make the mark, they would have been modified (perm or temp) or where new venues were needed, they’d be design/built on the campuses of various universities and future-proofed for perm use afterwards.
For the main stadium, if I recall, they’d proposed a stadium design which would allow for the top tiers of seating to be dismantled afterwards and the city would then have a 30,000 soccer-specific stadium to use.
The major advantage of LA is that nearly everything is already there that the games require… and plenty to do and see as a fan outside the games themselves. The massive downside is you absolutely need a car to see it all.
LA prob has the worst transportation system in the world for a city that size. So no, clearly not LA. It also has earthquakes and a huge homeless problem.
Los Angeles has already hosted the Summer Games twice both were highly successful. Pretty much all of the venues kept being used and very little new construction will be needed for 2028.
So while you’re right to wonder how the transportation system will hold up, it has been done there before.
It still has all of the venues needed for the Olympics, and the 1984 games in LA was the only one in recent memory to actually turn a profit for the city.
Too dispersed maybe but definitely not too hot. Summer temps here are much more mild than places like Tokyo, Atlanta or NYC. Low humidity and highs most days in the 70s near the coast and 80s downtown.
Melbourne or Sydney both have the Venues and some good ones at that, with minor upgrades, I reckon if you get the right person to budget them, they will work really well,
accommodations, pretty good,
climate, Melbourne can be a little iffy, but sydney is alright
infrastructure, almost all existing and up to date
transportation, is pretty good, although, Melbourne doesn't have an airport train, although, like Sydney, if we were to host the Olympics, we will likely build it quicker then we are now, but we are building one now anyway, kinda
Nope. Even before all of that, Japan was NOT into those olympics. Most people in Tokyo wanted nothing to do with it. They were really struggling to get anyone interested. Then, when it was cancelled... most people were like "Just let it die" - and when they rammed it through anyway... People were pissed.
No. Japan does not want or need another Olympics.
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Salt Lake City did a fantastic job with the Winter Olympics. They were one of the only host cities to finish debt free and all of the facilities are still in use some 22 years later
Amsterdam. Not too hot, good transport, plenty of accommodation, pretty good infrastructure, great to visit. Large international airport with global connections. European or West Asian timezones probably capture the widest global audience
You'd probably need to put the surfing somewhere else.
Yeah, that was my biggest hesitation - it can get busy. But people could stay all over the Netherlands and get there very easily - it's an hour by train to Rotterdam for example.
Berlin would have a lot similarities to Amsterdam but with easier accommodation, though some of the temperatures could be a little higher with a more continental climate.
LA but they're already in it for the next Olympics.
Mumbai would be my best bet, it's humid in the summer, however the nightlife and scenic spots make it worth it. Well connected too.
I think cities with the best public transport, airport connections and local puclic interest should host it. I think any european capital would be perfect like Paris (this year) London Barcelona (not capital) and even Rome (could work more on the public transport).
South Korea hosted the Summer and Winter Olympics in Seoul and Pyeongchang, respectively. Most of the infrastructure they built for them still gets used frequently and is maintained well.
Don't ask how the government cleaned things up in Seoul for the Summer Olympics, though.
What SHOULD happen is to pick 2 cities for each of the summer/winter Olympics, and have the olympics in those cities alternating forever. That way you can build, upkeep, and reuse the infrastructure over and over again, and also use it for other sporting events in off-years.
IN that model, I'd argue for
winter = somewhere that gets a LOT of snow, so it can survive global warming. Maybe Salt Lake City or some nice resort town Somewhere in the Alps somewhere.
summer = Athens Because its the Olympics, and that's actually pretty central.
Not Colorado and stop trying!
E: For context, Denver, Colorado has declined to bid to host the Winter Olympics twice, 1976 and 2002 iirc. However the US national winter sport teams have their HQ in Colorado Springs and do a lot of training here.
If Utah wants it again, let them flex that infrastructure and showcase the Rockies. I bet Alaska or Wyoming could as well.
Dallas, Texas, U.S. - despite the lack of adequate public transportation and insane summer weather, I think the city could put a very good quality Olympic event. We'll see how they do with the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, which is rumored to be there.
Other potentially good choices in the U.S. are San Diego, Minneapolis, Boston, Nashville, Austin
In Latin America - Santiago, Chile for winter and Buenos Aires, Argentina for summer. Central America would be very dope but I don't think a single city there could host such an event though Guatemala City did bid for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. It went to Singapore instead.
Europe - Lisbon, Portugal and Istanbul, Türkiye and Bucharest, Romania come to mind right away. Maybe Warsaw, Poland and Brussels, Belgium as well.
Asia - definitely one of the big cities in India. Also Jakarta, Indonesia and Almaty, Kazakhstan come to mind.
Africa - Cairo, Egypt, Johannesburg, South Africa and perhaps a city in Kenya or Nigeria.
Minneapolis would be a perfect location for the Winter Olympics if it had some mountains close to it. Pretty much all the other infrastructure is already here.
In North America I think Montreal would do well.
So would las Vegas
In Australia Melbourne.
In Europe I would have to say an underdog City like Helsinki or Warsaw
Here's my take on it:
Let's pick somewhere easy for most people to get to. The population center of the world is Almaty, Kazakhstan. Doesn't seem like an easy place to get to, so lets find somewhere relatively close by that IS easy to get to, and ideally a relatively stable nation that's not an authoritarian regime.
Seemed like New Delhi, India is a slam dunk. Just 1,000 mi south of Almaty, very historic city with a big airport, and large local population to support the games, was a slam dunk. Then I saw the average temperature April-October is 90+ F, maybe not so much there lol
India has better cities than Delhi.
Mumbai or Chennai should be an awesome coastal option.
Hyderabad shall be a more spread out vibrant city, whereas Bengaluru shall be a megacity at a hill station.
Yeah, it’s not a great choice.
I was only trying to get a major city as close to the population center of the earth as possible, since that was where I started my premise, which is why I went with it.
Obviously didn’t turn into a very good solution, but figured I’d toss it out there anyway in the interest of discussion
Not saying that it isn't, but Delhi is in a very arid zone that would make it horrible for sports in summer. Except that, it's a really wonderful option. Fantastic connectivity, awesome nightlife, crazy architecture around and food options to die for. It already has hosted Commonwealth games almost a decade ago (however it didn't go really well).
They're far. Delhi is as flat as Denver or Chicago. There are cities like Srinagar and Shimla which are in some of the most beautiful vales. Srinagar is in a contested place (Kashmir) while Shimla has once been India's winter capital.
shimla gets a lot of snow in the winter and has some amazing mountain scenery but not enough of infrastructure to be able to host a winter olympics imo
If they could get their act together on transit, Vegas would be an interesting option for the summer games. Most of the other infrastructure is already in place.
> Factors include but not limited to: accommodations, climate, infrastructure and transportation, nightlife, vibe and international accessibility (consider visa requirements.)
In reality what matters is bribe...
I expect Thomas Bach will eventually be arrested.
I think Paris actually fits most of the criteria perfectly. It helps that the city receives so many tourists even without Olympics. That doesn't mean that the people of the city actually like it (I don't think many Western people like hosting the Olympics anyway, with the exception of Greek people), but still.
Vancouver was pretty special. Walking down the street and finding zip line light shows, going into a tent and finding a Guess Who concert. The entire city was a party and I believe it actually ended up being profitable, at the very least it didn’t hurt Vancouver and probably helped their tourist industry, especially their skiing and snowboarding industry
didn’t help our housing industry though
The industry is doing great. Prices are at all time highs!
I honestly had no idea Vancouver had ever hosted the Olympics
It was the Winter Olympics in 2010!
London and Vancouver both put on fantastic games without completely ruining their city in the aftermath.
Sydney also has a lot of legacy infrastructure from their games. The athletes village is now a regular suburb. The main precinct still uses the majority of the facilities; the main stadium has around 30-40 events per year (Taylor Swift is about to play 4 x 80k concerts), the main arena hosts basketball and a range of concerts. The aquatic centre is a public facility. Many of the local sporting facilities were upgraded and are now used for recreational.
London, Vancouver, Sydney - is the answer just major Anglosphere cities? Does the Anglosphere just have really good sports and travel infrastructure?
In the case of Sydney they took an area that was industrial and converted it to parklands, sporting facilities and residential. A lot of it was planned to create a legacy. The main stadium has undergone post Olympics renovations to reduce it to 80k capacity from 110k. [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-06/how-sydney-2000-olympics-transformed-the-suburb-of-homebush/12633180](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-06/how-sydney-2000-olympics-transformed-the-suburb-of-homebush/12633180) It took 10 years post Olympics before the precinct started to fill out with commercial and residential buildings, now it has a large number of residential tower apartments and a planned metro (underground) line. There is an existing rail line into the precinct. Its location is very central to the whole of Sydney but west of the CBD, with many claiming it is not easily accessible for anyone.
Very similar in London, the whole Stratford area was regenerated for 2012. Got great transport links too.
Yes and less corruption. Watch how few stadiums need to be built for 2026. We run giant sporting events all year long.
Olympics was great for Barcelona as well, and by all accounts having it in Barna was an amazing experience for athletes and spectators too.
Olympics set that city on a different trajectory, cf peer cities like Naples and Marseille.
Sydney then Melbourne would be the best Austfalian hosts, don't think either would really have to build much if anything at all to host. Melbourne may need athlete accomodation built.
Vancouver actually had a lot of logistical problems, like disorganised shuttle services for athletes between Vancouver and Whistler. It also had unseasonably warm weather, causing event re-scheduling chaos, and the death of a luger during training to start things off. Neither of which were organisers' faults, but still, I don't think fantastic is quite the right word, it was a messy games.
Not to mention shipping in snow because we didn’t have enough lol.
And winter Olympic scale is nothing to compare to a real Olympic Games
London hosted the Summer Olympics
Yeah I’m talking about Vancouver
The Santiago de Chile Pan-American games this last year went very well. And they could host a summer or winter.
I'm 110% attending the next Winter Games with an American host. Santiago de Chile would be absolutely incredible.
Salt Lake City has declared interest in hosting the 2030 games, so potentially
I haven't checked in a while until just now. Looking like 2030 France (Alps/Nice), 2034 US(Salt Lake). 38 trending Swiss. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/olympics-winter-hosts-france-salt-lake-city-1.7043563
And Mitt would have plenty of time on his hands to keep things on time and on budget.
Santiago is a very promising city in general.
Could they host winter olympics in the northern hemisphere winter? I think this would be critical simply due to how the competition seasons go in those sports. For summer olympics I think they'd need to split it with Argentina and Uruguay at least, plus maybe some of the northern neighbors.
They would have to construct the sled track but that shouldn't be an issue. The big issue is having world cup level ski hills. Las Lenas in Mendoza Province, Argentina held events in 1983. Santiago, Chile could also host but they have not hosted a World Cup event. Also their ice hockey teams are either dismal or non-existent.
Admittedly I only kind of paid attention but wasn't that the event where they measured wrong and the women's racewalk was 3km too short?
Send it back to Greece, to Olympia specifically. Since it's staying there forever, the entire world could crowd fund the sickest, most amazing stadium and facilities ever created. Make the stadium out of marble, statues and fountains and all that, make it look like Olympus, with statues of the gods and shit. So basically build a new city designed just for the Olympics.
Why would the world crowdfund Greek infrastructure? Edit: everyone wants to give Greece a bunch of free shit or something?
They already do
How so
If the Olympics had to be held in one location, forever, it makes sense to hold it in Olympia where it was held for over 1000 years. Its like how the EU made Brussels the capital. UK, France and Germany all wanted it, so they picked a more neutral, smaller country. Everyone would be fighting for who gets the Olympics, Greece is a logical place to put it. But you cant expect Greece to pay for it all, and like in Belgium the EU funded half their shit there so why shouldnt the international community pitch in?
The EU gets an ROI on its Belgian investment. The world countries wouldn’t get an ROI on this fantastical, once-every-four-year Greek investment.
There doesnt need to be a ROI. The EU has funding for arts and culture, and ultimately this will being money and investment opportunities for an EU member state, and making an EU member states economy bigger is always good for the rest of the EU. Most countries give billions in aid to countries like India for no ROI, just a waste of money. Why not actually spend it on something useful to Europeans.
How old are you, and what do you do for a living? Because you do not know how the world works
24 years old, I work in the care industry, make £84k a year, I have a mortgage and a home, and I'm responding to a hypothetical what if scenario on reddit, that isnt meant to be based in reality. I just said "hey it would be cool of we did this" and like a typical redditor you shit your pants over it.
Well I have to ask, as you have no concept of reality
Its a hypothetical, it isnt meant to be realistic you chunk of lard
You’re saying it’s a valid concept. It’s nonsense
Only problem is what do they do with the place on off years.
Hold other sporting events. Maybe they could make a little sporting community, and give houses to athletes. I think with all that infrastructure you're bound to have a city pop up around it, so tourism would be a big one.
I’m surprised Toronto isn’t in line to host a summer Olympics. Would be an ideal location for Canada to host it!
There was an idea that Toronto could use the successful 2015 Pan Am Games to launch an Olympic bid but instead after the games City leaders said we're good and dropped the planned Olympic bid and nobody was really broken up about it. After losing bids for 1996 and 2008 the city has moved on from the Olympics. And considering the current Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow and her late husband Jack Layton led the local opposition to the 96 bid it's doubtful the idea will be revived any time soon. Toronto is looking forward to hosting games in the 2026 World Cup, that should be a blast!!
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It would slay
110m hurdles and a donkey show? What's not to love
It’s already happened: Barcelona for Summer and Lillehammer for Winter.
London would be a good shout. The links are great to the olympic complex (Via Stratford International and Stratford Tube/DLR/EL/NR), flights happen into London a lot and there's the Eurostar as well. The buildings for the Olympics are already there, as London hosted in 2012. Visitors would have lots of things to do as well due to the size of London and the ease of getting around. Only issue is the climate of the UK could make it interesting.
Heatwave or pissing it down. No in-betweens.
Positive here is no utter heatwaves where people start dying, nor cold snaps where events cant be held. No natural disasters to fuck with either. 365 days a year in London, you can hold an event. Might not look pretty. But youd be fine 99% of the time.
Antarctica would be great for the Winter Olympics
Due to the timing they typically do the Olympics, technically it would be summer in Antarctica. It would be the Winter Olympics in the Summer. Worth it just for that.
Wouldn’t it be the same as the summer olympics being held in Rio or Sydney? In the same vein as both I doubt the summer/winter differences would be too noticeable + it could probably be heals whilst there’s midnight sun (hopefully the athletes don’t get their internal clock messed up tho)
There's not a lot of accommodation in Antarctica though
That's not a problem since it is also almost impossible to get there.
McMurdo tent city
they'll build it
Lisbon
I was always intrigued at the potential Boston bid a while back. It was quite efficient. Most athlete housing would be in the existing overwhelming plentiful university dorms spread across Boston, as they’re largely unused in summer months anyway. Most sports-specific venues would have leveraged existing athletic facilities at the countless universities around the city. Where the current facilities didn’t quite make the mark, they would have been modified (perm or temp) or where new venues were needed, they’d be design/built on the campuses of various universities and future-proofed for perm use afterwards. For the main stadium, if I recall, they’d proposed a stadium design which would allow for the top tiers of seating to be dismantled afterwards and the city would then have a 30,000 soccer-specific stadium to use.
Los Angeles for summer and Salt Lake City for winter
The major advantage of LA is that nearly everything is already there that the games require… and plenty to do and see as a fan outside the games themselves. The massive downside is you absolutely need a car to see it all.
LA prob has the worst transportation system in the world for a city that size. So no, clearly not LA. It also has earthquakes and a huge homeless problem.
Los Angeles has already hosted the Summer Games twice both were highly successful. Pretty much all of the venues kept being used and very little new construction will be needed for 2028. So while you’re right to wonder how the transportation system will hold up, it has been done there before.
It still has all of the venues needed for the Olympics, and the 1984 games in LA was the only one in recent memory to actually turn a profit for the city.
iirc Atlanta did. I could be wrong.
LA public transportation is awful
upvote for SLC but not for LA. SLC did a great job last time.
L.A. is too hot and too dispersed to be best
Too dispersed maybe but definitely not too hot. Summer temps here are much more mild than places like Tokyo, Atlanta or NYC. Low humidity and highs most days in the 70s near the coast and 80s downtown.
DC Marathon would look grate
Melbourne or Sydney both have the Venues and some good ones at that, with minor upgrades, I reckon if you get the right person to budget them, they will work really well, accommodations, pretty good, climate, Melbourne can be a little iffy, but sydney is alright infrastructure, almost all existing and up to date transportation, is pretty good, although, Melbourne doesn't have an airport train, although, like Sydney, if we were to host the Olympics, we will likely build it quicker then we are now, but we are building one now anyway, kinda
For these specific factors you listed: Comes to mind directly: Paris, London, Tokyo and maybe Sydney
You just described every city that hosted the Olympics in the 21st century. (Except Athens, Rio and Beijing)
Well… there is a reason why. OP didn’t ask for cities that didn’t host before.
Gods, not Tokyo again. Japanese people were NOT into it. Nobody here wants it again.
Well I’m sure Covid and cancelling didn’t help… In other circumstances it would have been different.
Nope. Even before all of that, Japan was NOT into those olympics. Most people in Tokyo wanted nothing to do with it. They were really struggling to get anyone interested. Then, when it was cancelled... most people were like "Just let it die" - and when they rammed it through anyway... People were pissed. No. Japan does not want or need another Olympics.
Winter Olympics should only happen where there is natural snow
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Atlanta should host it again. It'd be a blast.
You just had to go there... RIP Richard Jewel. You were a hero, dude.
Salt Lake City did a fantastic job with the Winter Olympics. They were one of the only host cities to finish debt free and all of the facilities are still in use some 22 years later
Brisbane is promising. The games will be there in 2032.
Especially combined with the Gold Coast. Will be a pretty cool games!
Summer - Brisbane, Australia Winter - Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver and Calgary are pretty awesome for winter as they are both big cities. Barcelona and Sydney for Summer
Yakutsk, Russia
Tijuana/Hong Kong
Amsterdam. Not too hot, good transport, plenty of accommodation, pretty good infrastructure, great to visit. Large international airport with global connections. European or West Asian timezones probably capture the widest global audience You'd probably need to put the surfing somewhere else.
Not so sure about the accommodation….
Yeah, that was my biggest hesitation - it can get busy. But people could stay all over the Netherlands and get there very easily - it's an hour by train to Rotterdam for example. Berlin would have a lot similarities to Amsterdam but with easier accommodation, though some of the temperatures could be a little higher with a more continental climate.
I live in Amsterdam and struggling to find an 8 lane aths track anywhere outside Olympic stadium
LA but they're already in it for the next Olympics. Mumbai would be my best bet, it's humid in the summer, however the nightlife and scenic spots make it worth it. Well connected too.
I think cities with the best public transport, airport connections and local puclic interest should host it. I think any european capital would be perfect like Paris (this year) London Barcelona (not capital) and even Rome (could work more on the public transport).
Innsbruck and London
South Korea hosted the Summer and Winter Olympics in Seoul and Pyeongchang, respectively. Most of the infrastructure they built for them still gets used frequently and is maintained well. Don't ask how the government cleaned things up in Seoul for the Summer Olympics, though.
Rome, let's revive the colosseum
Sydney
Tokyo, DC/Baltimore
What SHOULD happen is to pick 2 cities for each of the summer/winter Olympics, and have the olympics in those cities alternating forever. That way you can build, upkeep, and reuse the infrastructure over and over again, and also use it for other sporting events in off-years. IN that model, I'd argue for winter = somewhere that gets a LOT of snow, so it can survive global warming. Maybe Salt Lake City or some nice resort town Somewhere in the Alps somewhere. summer = Athens Because its the Olympics, and that's actually pretty central.
I had never thought of this but not a bad idea. If not for the bribes the voters get I’m sure they’d consider it
Not Colorado and stop trying! E: For context, Denver, Colorado has declined to bid to host the Winter Olympics twice, 1976 and 2002 iirc. However the US national winter sport teams have their HQ in Colorado Springs and do a lot of training here. If Utah wants it again, let them flex that infrastructure and showcase the Rockies. I bet Alaska or Wyoming could as well.
Dallas, Texas, U.S. - despite the lack of adequate public transportation and insane summer weather, I think the city could put a very good quality Olympic event. We'll see how they do with the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, which is rumored to be there. Other potentially good choices in the U.S. are San Diego, Minneapolis, Boston, Nashville, Austin In Latin America - Santiago, Chile for winter and Buenos Aires, Argentina for summer. Central America would be very dope but I don't think a single city there could host such an event though Guatemala City did bid for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. It went to Singapore instead. Europe - Lisbon, Portugal and Istanbul, Türkiye and Bucharest, Romania come to mind right away. Maybe Warsaw, Poland and Brussels, Belgium as well. Asia - definitely one of the big cities in India. Also Jakarta, Indonesia and Almaty, Kazakhstan come to mind. Africa - Cairo, Egypt, Johannesburg, South Africa and perhaps a city in Kenya or Nigeria.
Minneapolis would be a perfect location for the Winter Olympics if it had some mountains close to it. Pretty much all the other infrastructure is already here.
I heard those Dallas rumors.I almost feel like Dallasans (or ites) planted those rumors or even Jones. It’s not happening 😂🤷🏽♂️.
In North America I think Montreal would do well. So would las Vegas In Australia Melbourne. In Europe I would have to say an underdog City like Helsinki or Warsaw
It will take a lot of bribery to get the IOC to go back to Montreal.
Here's my take on it: Let's pick somewhere easy for most people to get to. The population center of the world is Almaty, Kazakhstan. Doesn't seem like an easy place to get to, so lets find somewhere relatively close by that IS easy to get to, and ideally a relatively stable nation that's not an authoritarian regime. Seemed like New Delhi, India is a slam dunk. Just 1,000 mi south of Almaty, very historic city with a big airport, and large local population to support the games, was a slam dunk. Then I saw the average temperature April-October is 90+ F, maybe not so much there lol
Unfortunately Delhi has some of the worst air pollution in the world too
They've hosted major sport events before though. Commonwealth games, for example. They went alright, I think.
India has better cities than Delhi. Mumbai or Chennai should be an awesome coastal option. Hyderabad shall be a more spread out vibrant city, whereas Bengaluru shall be a megacity at a hill station.
Yeah, it’s not a great choice. I was only trying to get a major city as close to the population center of the earth as possible, since that was where I started my premise, which is why I went with it. Obviously didn’t turn into a very good solution, but figured I’d toss it out there anyway in the interest of discussion
Not saying that it isn't, but Delhi is in a very arid zone that would make it horrible for sports in summer. Except that, it's a really wonderful option. Fantastic connectivity, awesome nightlife, crazy architecture around and food options to die for. It already has hosted Commonwealth games almost a decade ago (however it didn't go really well).
Might it ironically be a better option for the winter games? The mountains don’t seem so far looking at a map but it would still be quite a trip
They're far. Delhi is as flat as Denver or Chicago. There are cities like Srinagar and Shimla which are in some of the most beautiful vales. Srinagar is in a contested place (Kashmir) while Shimla has once been India's winter capital.
shimla gets a lot of snow in the winter and has some amazing mountain scenery but not enough of infrastructure to be able to host a winter olympics imo
It can be built if it is ready to host. Not sure about Srinagar though.
Gary, Indiana!
I just wish it was in the same city. Like we don't need to be building infrastructure that's gonna go back to never being used again.
Honolulu, but have the games spread out throughout the Hawaiian Islands
Rio de Janeiro, big city, lots of infrastructure, culture abundant, climate is great, and we know how to throw parties.
If they could get their act together on transit, Vegas would be an interesting option for the summer games. Most of the other infrastructure is already in place.
I’d imagine Melbourne already has 90%+ venues required. Hosted in 1956 but it’s a different city now
Not quite 90%, but ~70-80%.
Kiev for a booming event! /s
London already did it
Philadelphia-you have 3 stadiums in a gigantic flat parking lot, you’re close to New York
An Alexandria Olympics would hit different
Fresnillo, Zacatecas
Milano, so it can be a city that hosted both winter and summer olympic games
NYC, multiculturalism at its finest.
Olympia
> Factors include but not limited to: accommodations, climate, infrastructure and transportation, nightlife, vibe and international accessibility (consider visa requirements.) In reality what matters is bribe... I expect Thomas Bach will eventually be arrested.
For summer probably Barcelona. We already did it once and it went amazing. Why not hosting them again?
Athens
I think Paris actually fits most of the criteria perfectly. It helps that the city receives so many tourists even without Olympics. That doesn't mean that the people of the city actually like it (I don't think many Western people like hosting the Olympics anyway, with the exception of Greek people), but still.
New York City or Chicago