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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://apnews.com/dd51339540d8846881d4f34f85cc4141

Postponed Tokyo Olympics could be downsized and simplified. My question is, why shoehorn it into 2021? Why not wait until 2022, and for the first time since 1992, have the Summer and Winter Games the same year? I don't know about you, but the Olympics have been less meaningful or impressive to me when every other year is an Olympic year. I'd like to see it return to a special global spectacle every four years. Tokyo and Beijing can cohost 2022, Paris and Milan can cohost 2026, Los Angeles (currently scheduled for the 2028 Summer Games) can instead take 2030 with maybe Salt Lake City, Vancouver, or Calgary cohosting the Winter Games that year. And then going forward, both Summer and Winter Games will be held in the same handful of cities with existing infrastructure. This would have the bonus of eliminating the wasteful spending cities currently do to bid for and host the Games.[/quote]

2022 is already incredibly crowded with Track & Field world championships, European athletic championships, and the Commonwealth Games.

Soccer World Cup 2022 is in November but in 2026 will be back in northern hemisphere summer.  No way IOC would try and compete for viewers with that in future years.[/quote]

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