Should Toronto consider bidding for the Summer Olympics in 2020?

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

With Chicago lossing the bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2016, do you now think that could give Toronto a possible chance to bid for the Summer Olympics in 2020? Here are some of my reasons why I think they could actually win this time if they decide to make a bid.

It would be the third time they bid for them, so you would think that would make them a favorite. Plus it would be 10 years since the Olympics in general were in North America, since Vancouver/Whistler are hosting the Winter Olympics in 2010 and 24 years since the Summer Olympics were in North America, with Atlanta hosting them in 1996. Also I think 10 years between Canada hosting the Olympics is enough time, because the United States had the Atlanta games in 1996 and the Salt Lake City games in 2002, which were only 6 years apart.

 

[Ham Ham]

Look for the 2020 games to be in Asia or Africa..

2024 might be the next realistic time for a Toronto to try a bid.

On another note, hope we don't get the Pan Am games. But a successful Pan Am games would help an Olympic bid.

Most people don't even remember where the last Pan Am games were.
No Canadian TV network bought right to the last games Pan Am games.

The US do not take the games too seriously. Some of their top athletes didn't even attend the last games in Rio in 2007.

Games coming to TO will be a money pit. This city can't even run a transit system properly. Hate to see what a shambles they would make of the Pan Am or Olympics.

The opulence and arrogance of the IOC really tarnishes the games in my opinion.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

Look for the 2020 games to be in Asia or Africa..

2024 might be the next realistic time for a Toronto to try a bid.

I think that depends if PyeongChang wins their bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics, because if they did the IOC won't go back to another Asian city 2 years later.

 

[Ham Ham]

I think that depends if PyeongChang wins their bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics, because if they did the IOC won't go back to another Asian city 2 years later.

It's like trying to read tea leaves.

Good call on the games in South Korea.

Japan has hosted both winter games held in Asia in 1972 & 1998.

I would like to see a winter games in NZ but no official bid has been made by the NZOC.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics

 

[glenpreece]

NOOOOO I would never want to have the olympics in T.O. it would be a nightmare. plus what are we gong to do with all those facilities afterwards? As another poster said it's a money pit only 1 game has made a profit and that was Salt Lake City. I say let somebdoy else have it. The americans can afford it lol.

 

[damo]

I'm not a fan of the Olympics in Toronto either.

 

[northyvr]

I live in Vancouver and wish we weren't awarded the 2010 Winter Games. Too much of a financial burden and way too disruptive.

 

[snickerboo]

No, I don't think TO has the money to spare for another Olympic bid right now. Unless they were almost certain to ge it, I think it's a waste of money.

 

[absolut_mandy]

Although I LOVE the Olympics (can't wait to go to Vancouver in Feb), I don't think that TO needs the Olympics. I totally agree that it's a money pit and TO would not be the best Canadian city for the Olympics.

 

[crashbb]

I would like to see a winter games in NZ but no official bid has been made by the NZOC.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Winter_Olympics

Okay, so this is going to sound stupid but...

How can NZ hold in the Olympic Games in their summer? I know that Southern Hemisphere countries have hosted Summer Games in their winters, but they were places with mild winters (e.g. it will be winter in Rio in 2012). A New Zealand summer is not cold. Indoor events (i.e. skating, hockey, curling) would be okay, but what about Nordic skiing, for example? Have Southern Hemisphere countries hosted winter games before?

I did read the Wiki article, I just don't get the logistics.