Olympic Bid

ecoli

The Winners of the 2016 Olympic bid will be announced the the next hour and there have already been twists and turns seeing Chicago, the bookies favourite crash out first. They were shortly following by Tokyo leaving it a two horse race between Madrid and Rio De Janeiro

Rio been awarded the Games becoming first South American city to host the Games

robinph

Glad to see it go somewhere new.

Surprised Madrid got as far as they did with the next two Olympics in Europe already, and the US gets enough of them as it is too, although they are possibly nearly due another summer games.

Thrill

Rio de Janeiro has been selected to host the Olympics in 2016.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/rio-to-host-2016-olympics-428687.html

Rineanna

I'm also happy to see it go to Rio. Chicago caught me by suprise, though.

The country's going to be unrecognisable at the other side of the games, with all the infrastructural developments linked to both the Olympics and the world cup. Fair to play to them though, if they can afford it!

From a selfish point of view, always hoped, but never believed, Madrid would get it for its proximity and cost advantages over the other three, but there you are.

Anyone know what the climate is like there around the time the Olympics will be held there?

finbarrk

I'm delighted they got it. With the help of God I will be around then and I'll go there.
I was there one March and it was very hot anyway. Presume it will be in August. Although Sydney was mid Sep to Oct 1st.

netwhizkid

London 2012 is looking pretty tempting now as the last big sports event to attend in the west for the guts of a decade.

Fifa World Cup 2010 South Africa, (bring the kevlar vests!)... no thanks
2012 Olympics London, hopefully Mick & Co. will put on plenty 99c flights!
2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil (Rio) unsafe and too far away and costly!
2016 Olympics Rio unsafe ditto!

I would love to see the US get another Olympics (NYC & Mayor Bloomberg heres looking at you!) or else get the Fifa World cup again as they have some quality stadia over there. Rio hosting the Olympics will come quite cheap as they will get double bang for their buck having the world's two biggest sporting events in their country within 2 years.

robinph

Rineanna wrote: »

Anyone know what the climate is like there around the time the Olympics will be held there?

I'd guess it will be the middle of their winter, so pretty warm then.

There were plenty of people on the beach today wearing not very much in the TV pictures they showed and it would be about end of August time I'd guess they will be holding it but the exact dates will have been fixed in each bid. Think there is a window they can hold the "summer" games between end of July to start of September to give a bit of leeway for countries to work around their seasons, but it's basically all fixed on northern hemisphere dates. There will never be a Winter Games down south unless it's in the antarctic.

Trekkie Monster

I was in Brazil in August 2007 - it was warm (about 30 degrees at the hottest) but not particularly humid. It is their winter though so it gets dark at about 5 pm and the clear skies can mean fairly cold nights.

netwhizkid

robinph wrote: »

There will never be a Winter Games down south unless it's in the antarctic.

How about New Zealand's Southern Alps?

The_Kew_Tour

Was glad to see them get it although they have quiet busy two years in Brazil now between the world cup in 2014 and Olympics in 16.

Going make the country quiet lot of money in that short space of time

Hope they can pull of two good competitions

robinph

netwhizkid wrote: »

How about New Zealand's Southern Alps?

Nope, not high enough, difficult enough or cold enough at the right time of year. A summer games held in the southern hemisphere winter will still be at worst the same weather conditions as what we get in the height of our summer, doesn't work for the snow season though.

They did have some FIS World Cup events years ago held in New Zealand but they don't really have the conditions for them. There was a "Winter Games" on in Queenstown when I was there as a kind of warm up event for Vancouver nest year, so I got to watch various Olympians skiing around in Lycra. They only just have a run long enough for a downhill race so the only FIS ranked races they might get now are slaloms and giant slaloms.

FIS races are ones that count towards your world ranking and it all depends on who else turns up at each race as to how many points you might get for winning, but the scoring is pretty complicated and different for each event so I don't have much idea on how that workd really.

netwhizkid

robinph wrote: »

Nope, not high enough, difficult enough or cold enough at the right time of year. A summer games held in the southern hemisphere winter will still be at worst the same weather conditions as what we get in the height of our summer, doesn't work for the snow season though.

They did have some FIS World Cup events years ago held in New Zealand but they don't really have the conditions for them. There was a "Winter Games" on in Queenstown when I was there as a kind of warm up event for Vancouver nest year, so I got to watch various Olympians skiing around in Lycra. They only just have a run long enough for a downhill race so the only FIS ranked races they might get now are slaloms and giant slaloms.

FIS races are ones that count towards your world ranking and it all depends on who else turns up at each race as to how many points you might get for winning, but the scoring is pretty complicated and different for each event so I don't have much idea on how that workd really.

Southern Chile heading down towards Cape Horn has a good few ski resorts I am sure they would be south enough!

plodder

I was glad Rio got it as well. As for Chicago being knocked out in the first round, Pat Hickey was talking about this before he went over for the vote. Sometimes a front-runner city can get knocked out in the first round because people want to give a "sympathy vote" to other cities in the first round and they vote tactically thinking that they will have to switch to one of the front runners in a later round anyway. Problem is it backfires if the frontrunner you were going to vote for gets knocked out in the first round.

The IOC should adopt the Irish PR voting system. It's a much better way of doing votes like this :pac:

finbarrk

netwhizkid wrote: »

London 2012 is looking pretty tempting now as the last big sports event to attend in the west for the guts of a decade.

Fifa World Cup 2010 South Africa, (bring the kevlar vests!)... no thanks
2012 Olympics London, hopefully Mick & Co. will put on plenty 99c flights!
2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil (Rio) unsafe and too far away and costly!
2016 Olympics Rio unsafe ditto!

I would love to see the US get another Olympics (NYC & Mayor Bloomberg heres looking at you!) or else get the Fifa World cup again as they have some quality stadia over there. Rio hosting the Olympics will come quite cheap as they will get double bang for their buck having the world's two biggest sporting events in their country within 2 years.

I'd be the opposite to you. London will be a rip off. The other places are worth a trip, a good excuse to go. We can go to London any day of the week.