Anonymous wrote:The racism is the colonization and lack of infrastructure that causes no one to be able to put in a bid, not the IOC which hasn't magically forced an African country to bid.
Anonymous wrote:Hosting the Olympics is not a good thing. It's a brief economic boom (that is not sustained), followed by a lot of waste, corruption, and forgotten-ness.
This. It's a punishment, not a reward, that countries inexplicably vie for.