Should Ireland ever host the Olympics?

dogcat

With more bids coming in for 2024, do you think Ireland should host a Summer Olympic Games in the future? I would love for it to happen, but don't think it will, but we're hosting more and more competitions recently and probably will do in the future so I think it'd be good. But we'd need to be in a better financial state.

Menas

dogcat wrote: »

With more bids coming in for 2024, do you think Ireland should host a Summer Olympic Games in the future? I would love for it to happen, but don't think it will, but we're hosting more and more competitions recently and probably will do in the future so I think it'd be good. But we'd need to be in a better financial state.

Where in gods name would we get the money, infrastructure or organisational skills to host the Olympics?

whiskeyman

Menas wrote: »

Where in gods name would we get the money, infrastructure or organisational skills to host the Olympics?

You called?

brevity

We have trouble hosting concerts and festivals, God only knows what would happen if we attempted to host the Olympics.

Not a NSA agent

Maybe if there was a celtic tiger 2.0, until then definitely not.

dogcat

Menas wrote: »

Where in gods name would we get the money, infrastructure or organisational skills to host the Olympics?

Sure use the croker for most stuff, we can improvise on the rest. Maybe give an event or two to somewhere else in the country. We're getting more money by the day sure. We're grand at organizing stuff that are big.

the dark phantom

Ireland couldn't organize something as large as the Olympics without it being a fiasco. Garth Brooks would die laughing if the Olympic committee granted it to Ireland.

BoJack Horseman

Prohibitively expensive for what the IOC want from candidates.

Your looking at approx €20bn.... but probably more.

Arsemageddon

dogcat wrote: »

Sure use the croker for most stuff, we can improvise on the rest. Maybe give an event or two to somewhere else in the country. We're getting more money by the day sure. We're grand at organizing stuff that are big.

That post has cleared up every nagging question I had.

I'm now 100% behind Ireland's Olympic bid.

Son Of A Vidic

dogcat wrote: »

Should Ireland ever host the Olympics?

Absolutely not. I'd rather see those billions pumped into job creation and small business enterprises. Olympic games tend to leave behind a legacy of waste and unused facilitates. We've had enough waste already in this country, without adding the mother of all white elephants into the mix.

Menas

dogcat wrote: »

Sure use the croker for most stuff, we can improvise on the rest. Maybe give an event or two to somewhere else in the country. We're getting more money by the day sure. We're grand at organizing stuff that are big.

You do know that the actual operating cost of hosting the event is over 10Billion?
And how do you improvise a world class velodrome, 50 metre pool etc etc?
Not to mentioning improvising a whole bunch of hotel rooms and transportation links?

Guy:Incognito

dogcat wrote: »

Sure use the croker for most stuff, we can improvise on the rest. Maybe give an event or two to somewhere else in the country. We're getting more money by the day sure. We're grand at organizing stuff that are big.

One minor flaw in your reasoning is the lack of a running track in the stadium but I'm sure they can just run the races out on Clonliffe road.

rosie16

As tommy tiernan said we should host the 'drugs olympics'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDRzS2qLDhk

kfallon

The 100m final in Santry Stadium!

Buona Fortuna

Maybe we should go for the winter olympics instead

dogcat

Menas wrote: »

You do know that the actual operating cost of hosting the event is over 10Billion?
And how do you improvise a world class velodrome, 50 metre pool etc etc?
Not to mentioning improvising a whole bunch of hotel rooms and transportation links?

Aye, I do. I'm not say host in 2024 or 2028, but we can build these facilities over time, so that when we do apply n'd have better financial status (hopefully) and better transportation we'd be good. Dublin hotels are good, but not everyone needs to stay there exactly. They can branch out to other towns/cities and take transport to Dublin, and many people could couchsurf/AirBnB. We'd have the olympic village in that Lucan place.

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

One minor flaw in your reasoning is the lack of a running track in the stadium but I'm sure they can just run the races out on Clonliffe road.

Ah sure they can just make a running track sure.

Boring username

We'd have to lock up that nutty dancing priest first.

dogcat

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Maybe we should go for the winter olympics instead

Maybe we can finally get a medal!

mickstupp

The Irish government have shown next to zero interest, beyond empty words, in helping athletics in this country. They'll never fund the kind of world class facilities that would be required. Even if the money was there, in my opinion the incredible levels of bureaucratic incompetence in this country would result in a disastrous Olympics.

OldGoat

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Maybe we should go for the winter olympics instead

Or we should instigate the very first Autumnal Olympics. Running - in the rain. Jumping - in the rain. Hitting things - in the rain. Horsey stuff - in the rain. We can timeshare with Scotland.

the_monkey

Menas wrote: »

Where in gods name would we get the money, infrastructure or organisational skills to host the Olympics?

We've allready hosted the special olympics ... so don't see why not ..

BoJack Horseman

Then there is security.

London 2012 deployed 41,000 security personnel!
Rio next year will be between 45-50,000.

Ireland's combined security forces doesn't reach half this number, including reserves.

Airspace is patrolled constantly, something Ireland can't do.

Sites are protected by SAMs, which we can do, to some extent.

Emergency services have to show they can handle a top category terrorist catastrophe.

It would simply be impossible to do.

The_Valeyard

We could do it, we could organise a fantastic, amazing , well received and talked about games for years to come!!!

Should we do it? No.

Just far to expensive.

iDave

We can call it the O'Lympics.









I'll get my coat.

valoren

Never say never but probably not going to happen in our lifetime anyway.

Nodin

dogcat wrote: »

With more bids coming in for 2024, do you think Ireland should host a Summer Olympic Games in the future? I would love for it to happen, but don't think it will, but we're hosting more and more competitions recently and probably will do in the future so I think it'd be good. But we'd need to be in a better financial state.

No, but we should hoist whoever suggests it. Televise the event too.

BattleCorp

It would bankrupt the country and there is little or no long term economic benefit from hosting the games.

It would result in a nett loss for the country.

Jimoslimos

Not a realistic chance for any country outside the top 15 by GDP.

Finland would probably the closest comparison for us...and they held it in 1952!

Yeboah

Ireland should concentrate on hosting whats its capable of hosting..Ryder Cups, Rugby World Cups, World Rally Championships. ..thats about the most we can aspire to but it would be still awesome to get those events (again)

Niemoj

Hold it in County Carlow.

Twill be lovely.

micosoft

Menas wrote: »

Where in gods name would we get the money, infrastructure or organisational skills to host the Olympics?

Greece did! Oh wait....

BattleCorp

Niemoj wrote: »

Hold it in County Carlow.

Twill be lovely.

Carlow does have a running track so it's ahead of Croke Park at this stage.

There's the "Horsepool" in the river Slaney. They could do the diving there. Somebody would have to "bate" back the thistles first though.

Then there is the triathlon. They could swim in the river, then do the bike bit, and then run on the bits of road that aren't good enough for the bikes.

There's plenty of chippers so that's the infrastructure sorted. No bother feeding a few athletes. And there's a couple of chineses and indianeses for those foreign folk

It's sorted, Carlow it is so.

Niemoj

BattleCorp wrote: »

Carlow does have a running track so it's ahead of Croke Park at this stage.

There's the "Horsepool" in the river Slaney. They could do the diving there. Somebody would have to "bate" back the thistles first though.

Then there is the triathlon. They could swim in the river, then do the bike bit, and then run on the bits of road that aren't good enough for the bikes.

There's plenty of chippers so that's the infrastructure sorted. No bother feeding a few athletes. And there's a couple of chineses and indianeses for those foreign folk

It's sorted, Carlow it is so.

Carlow! Carlow! Carlow! Carlow!

fullstop

the_monkey wrote: »

We've allready hosted the special olympics ... so don't see why not ..

LOL, ah you're gas :pac: Sure it's practically the same thing, just with the word 'Special'.

biko

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Prohibitively expensive for what the IOC want from candidates.

Your looking at approx €20bn.... but probably more.

And that's just the bribes.

the_monkey

fullstop wrote: »

LOL, ah you're gas :pac: Sure it's practically the same thing, just with the word 'Special'.

Well, I'm hooked on this Carlow idea now tbh...

libelula

I'd much rather they chuck a billion aT sport in general. Athletics, swimming, rounders, the lot.

VinLieger

Cus all the olympics in recent memory haven't operated at an utterly disgraceful loss of money....

Duckworth_Luas

The Garth Brooks debacle proved Dublin incapable of hosting any major event.

Another vote for Carlow, who successfully hosted the 1967 Leinster Fleadh Ceoil.

smash

A mini special Olympics takes place outside Copers every Friday and Saturday night

Irishguy16

Oh god, we wouldn't even come close to winning the bidding rights. We don't have enough stadiums, hotels, infrastructure, and so on, nor are we that passionate about sports to begin with. We can't really organize anything properly as a nation, usually we just crumble and put the blame on one another!

libelula

smash wrote: »

A mini special Olympics takes place outside Copers every Friday and Saturday night

Ever win any medals?

valoren

libelula wrote: »

Ever win any medals?

For the Snatch :pac:

rossie1977

we could have hosted the olympics, world cup, superbowl and wrestlemania and still have change left over with the money we pumped into anglo irish

smash

libelula wrote: »

Ever win any medals?

A couple, but sure it's the taking part that counts!

KungPao

There is the same chance of us hosting the Olympics or World Cup, or anything of that stature as there is of a tunnel being constructed linking Ireland and the UK - which you hear people suggest while keeping a straight face.

Our specialty is hosting the odd Europa League final or Special Olympics. Something "big" buuuut not really.

DEFTLEFTHAND

iDave wrote: »

We can call it the O'Lympics.









I'll get my coat.

That wasn't too bad actually, you can stay where you are.

Samaris

All of the No.

Besides, I reckon the IMF would throttle us for even suggesting it!

mikeym

Lets do what the Greeks did back in the day and host the Olympics.

Our friends in Germany might loan us a couple Euro.

the_monkey

KungPao wrote: »

There is the same chance of us hosting the Olympics or World Cup, or anything of that stature as there is of a tunnel being constructed linking Ireland and the UK - which you hear people suggest while keeping a straight face.

Our specialty is hosting the odd Europa League final or Special Olympics. Something "big" buuuut not really.

In fairness we could have a UCL final in Croker ...

DEFTLEFTHAND

Even taking the Greeks as an eg, look up pictures of the absolute state they let their 2004 Olympic venues turn into, such a bloody waste of money they let them all go to pot, the T&F stadium is now a homeless run shantytown.

This is only 11 years ago but some of the surviving sites from the Ancient Games 2,000+ years ago look to be in a better condition.