[Magdalen] Olympics

[Charles Wohlers]

You're just lucky Chicago didn't get it. Just read that it cost Rio double 
what was budgeted - IIRC, 13 billion. Boston was proposed for the 2024 
Olympics until a big uproar put a stop to that.

The reason they announced the 2024 and 2028 Olympics is that those were the 
only two cities which were interested. Hosting the Olympics is extremely 
expensive with little return, so it's becoming harder and harder to find 
cities which want to do it.

I recall a Tom Paxton song - "We can have the Olympics over at our house" 
(on the '84 Olympics) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjKeKYlcAbQ.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Knitter
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:05 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: [Magdalen] Olympics

The next three summer Olympics will be in Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and
Los Angeles (2028). LA was just announced.

Brings back memories of the big party Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley threw
some years ago in Daley Plaza for the big announcement by the IOC of the
finalists to host the 2016 Olympics. The big screen lit up, the crowd
hushed, and the first words out of Mr Rogge's mouth were, "First of all,
Chicago is out." Collective sigh and "Oh, <bleep>!"

And that was the cue for Mayor Daley to retire. A five-second happening
ushered in the new Rahm Emanuel era.

-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA