Which U.S. city would you rather see host the Olympics in 2016? (Chicago wins US bid)

[Andy]

San Francisco has dropped out:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229140,00.html

So LA and Chicago are the two remaining bid cities for the USOC's nomination for the Games in 2016. The USOC makes their decision on their bid city next year, while the IOC decides which city is the overall winner in 2009.

Los Angeles' bid site: http://www.sccog.org/
Advantages: two-time previous host with experience, the Coliseum, other large venues, large media facilities already in place

Chicago's bid site: http://www.chicago2016.org/
Advantages: many large venues, public transit, would be a first-time host, centrally located within United States

[kevin]

chicago. no fucking question. i am a biased fuck. so shoot me.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

L.A. summer weather >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All other U.S. summer weather

[kevin]

the weather difference will be minimal. and nobody cares, anyway. YOU LOSE

VOTE CHICAGO OR ELSE

[Dead Nigga Storage]

the weather difference isn't minimal.

and people can make whatever jokes they want to about L.A. mass transit, but it's vastly under-appreciated. plus, we've got the media on our side. center of the united states? yawn. why not just put it in kansas city instead, then?

[kevin]

because kansas city sucks and chicago rules

that's the main point i'm trying to get at

if anything, it's warmer in chicago than la in the summer. so i fail to see how that matters.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

i'm not talking about warmth, i'm talking about weather in general. more to it than hot and cold (according to weather.com, they're summer averages are almost identical to the degree). it rains in chicago alot during the summer, i can almost guarantee there will not be a drop of it in los angeles in a given summer. rain is no good for a summer olympics. and hell, i'm not even biased. i think it's well established that i'm not a huge fan of L.A. at all, and there's a damn good chance i'll be living somewhere else by 2016, anyway. just stating fact.

[mike_donnelly]

give it to LA, they don't have an NFL team, Chicago just doesn't have an NFL quarterback.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

if you're going to give it to a city for not having an NFL franchise, we might as well just give it to green bay.

[kevin]

give it to LA, they don't have an NFL team, Chicago just doesn't have an NFL quarterback.

what in the fuck are you talking about? wrong on so many levels.

[Mike]

GIVE IT TO CHICAGO THEY'RE CURSED BY A GOAT

[Nebuchanezzar]

Chicago, only because they haven't had it before. Give someone else a turn.

But having it in Rio would be the best option out of all candidates.

[Homer Jay]

Chicago is probably the best choice of all possible American cities. San Francisco would have been a great choice as well. LA was successful as a host, but I would rather see the American choices be more varied.

[The mayor of Albuquerque]

I don't care. But since this thread reminded me, I better start thinking about tickets for Vancouver in 2010.

[Mayor Quimby]

Chicago, it's closer to me and I don't believe they have hosted one before.

[DAntae]

for some reason I think it would be cool to see chicago land it. la makes more sense practically but to hell with that. chicago is a vastly cooler city. yes I have been to both multiple times...so no need to attack my opinion, even if it is truth.

[pat]

i like chicago more so i voted for chicago. i don't really care either way which city gets chosen though.

[Wasteland]

I don't really care. I've already seen the Olympic torch run through my town on it's way to Atlanta in '96, so I don't have any opinion either way. As long as it's far from the south.

[Gabbo]

doesn't really matter to me. i guess chicago since they've never hosted one before.

[Brent]

guess what i voted for

[Spartan]

posting b4 the chicago krew owns thi...

ah fuck.

[kuumuus]

the one that doesn't suck

[SideshowTim]

los angeles seemed pretty cool when i went there. so los angeles i suppose.

still, australia should get them again :bang:

[Homerpalooza]

Chicago

[grissom]

Eh, I'll say Chicago. LA's hosted before, it's nice to see a first time city.

[Larson Something]

Whoever the USOC picks will be the overwhelming favorite to win it all. It will have been 20 years since the Summer Games have been in a U.S.-network-friendly time zone, so it would take a severe anti-American backlash to take it away from them. Of the two cities left, L.A. would be more vulnerable to this. They've hosted twice, and the last one isn't remembered fondly by a lot of the world because the Soviet boycott allowed the U.S. to dominate even more than usual. Plus there's Hollywood, which some see as home to the worst of American decadence and depravity. Chicago, on the other hand, can be sold as the first Midwest Games, a showcase for a humbler, friendlier version of America the world doesn't often see. Plus, they can get around the rules about bribing IOC members when, on their tour of the city, they go to a taping of Oprah on what just happens to be another one of her car giveaway days. ;)

But as long as there are no synchronized pickup trucks in the opening ceremonies, either one is fine with me.

[sacrelicious]

Chicago only because they haven't had a chance.

Being from Utah I know a little about ICO member-bribing and I say take em to Oprah on one of those car giveaway days :)

[Green_Peaness]

Chicago by far. Chicago is a ton more enjoyable than LA to me, as well as a lot closer in case I go. LA is basically a larger version of KC imo.

[Gatorgod]

Chicago! Chicago! .. its a maudlin town ....whatever Maudlin means? :-/

[Dead Nigga Storage]

LA is basically a larger version of KC imo.that MIGHT be the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life. you're banned from opinions.

[Andy]

BUMP

Unveiled today were the designs of the proposed Olympic venues for Chicago.

The main stadium isn't as nice as other Olympic opening/closingceremony/track&field stadiums but it's still kinda cool:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-01/27523418.jpg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-01/27523424.jpg
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-01/27523648.jpg

And check out the Olympic Village on the lakefront:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-01/27523652.jpg

This pic isn't that good, but they plan to re-use Northerly Island (former home of Meigs Field airport and current home of an amphitheater) as a sports complex:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-01/27523310.jpg

And finally, a rowing course on the lakefront, facing Grant Park:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-01/27523406.jpg

[Mayor Quimby]

BUMP

Fuck yeah Chicago wins the American vote.

[kevin]

suck it, la

too bad we gotta wait until 2009 for the final vote. but i'm pretty confident chicago will win it.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

meh. probably won't be living in either place, come 2016, so i don't care anymore. that opening/closing ceremonies stadium looks pretty shitty though.

[Spartan]

as atlanta can tell you, it's a huge waste of money and venues will never be used again.

[gheorghe]

gotta go with the windy apple

[Andy]

Only 2 1/2 years until we find out if Chicago gets the Olympics! :-X

:bang:

[Dead Nigga Storage]

the olympics should be held in america every time...AM I RIGHT, PPLZ?

[Roarke]

as much as id love la to get it, seriously doesn't make much since to have a repeat city less than 40 years apart.

[SideshowTim]

haha atlanta. weren't they considered like the worst games ever?

what other countries are making bids for 2016?

[SideshowTim]

Only 2 1/2 years until we find out if Chicago gets the Olympics! :-X

:bang:
and after that, only about 6 years until they actually happen there :bang:

i can't believe the olympics are gonna be next year already...seems like athens wasn't that long ago.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

worst ever? maybe because of the bombing, but i really don't see how that had anything to do with it being in atlanta. by that standard, i'd say the '72 olympics were the worst ever.

atlanta, since the olympics, has boomed into a much nicer, larger city, and a lot of the projects built for the olympics have since been put to good use for the city.

also, too many bids to list here, but here you go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Olympics

i pretty much already completely forgot that torino ever even happened. for some reason, sydney seems more recent than athens.

edit: oh yeah, and china getting the olympics was/is a fucking joke.

[SideshowTim]

i can't remember anything from torino except some canadian guy winning a gold medal under australias flag. the winter olympics don't get much coverage down here. i remember the sydney olympics really vividly...and yeah they don't seem that long ago to me either. that was the best 2 weeks ever. i remember they gave us the whole 2 weeks off school for the olympics so people could go out and experience them.

are there any specific rules set by the ioc that state a country can't have the olympics more than once during a certain period of time? because i know for things like the cricket world cup for example, they have a rotational policy where every continent must recieve the tournament once in a cycle.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

there's an unofficial rule that countries can't host that often, but it's not written in stone. the u.s. hosted two olympics (1996 in atlanta, and 2002 in salt lake city) within 6 years of each other, so it's apparently not that big a deal.

philadelphia keeps bidding pretty much every year. they'll never win...that place is a fucking dump.

and i'm still fucking pissed that the IOC dropped baseball and softball from their olympic sports competition. what a load of bullcrap that is. goddamn synchronized diving makes the cut, but not baseball?

[Spartan]

hope chicago enjoys putting the city in debt for a lot of wasted space.

atlanta's boom was inevitable and it started a decade before 1996. but aside from a really nice turner field, they got nothing out of the deal but millions in waste and a reputation of nothing but money grubbing hicks and pimps.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

wasn't the entire olympic village converted into college dorms, too?

[Spartan]

yep.

and now georgia state has deemed the old village unfit to serve as housing for the school.

[Jeff]

While I would've liked to see it come somewhere close (LA), I can understand why Chicago was picked. It seems like the better city to host the Olympics.

[Springfield, Kentucky]

hahaha, a larger version of KC. yeah that is funny. i don't think so. hahaha, KC?! nevermind...

[Supreme Stonecutter]

Chicago is the better of the two, but SF would have been the best. Shame they have to deal with those stadium woes.