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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These things are always boring. It will be the last good summer games for a while. I think it’s safe to say the LA Olympics will be lousy like the last one there and Atlanta. [/quote]

What makes you say that?[/quote]

History. Like I said, the two Olympics I mentioned were really bad. The head of the IOC at the time of the Atlanta games even omitted the traditional “these were the best games ever” statement. I expect LA to be awful given the mega-commercialized condition of the country. There will probably be gambling ads everywhere. Maybe there will be odds on the scoreboards. [/quote]

I mean -- the Atlanta Olympics were marred by a bombing that injured 111 people (and thankfully killed no one though one of the victims later had a heart attack and tragically died). That's why the IOC head didn't say they were the "best games ever" -- it's hard to call an Olympics with a terrorist attack great. It seems pretty harsh to hold that against the host city except in the sense that there was a security breach (though actually a security guard found the bomb before detonation and saved people's lives by beginning to clear people out of the area... only to then be rewarded by becoming the FBI's prime suspect and hounded by the media for weeks even though the guard -- Richard Jewell -- was a bonafide hero who did his job that day).

Anyway I think the LA Olympics could be great. [/quote]

The IOC was very unhappy with the Atlanta games due to over-commercialization. It was well publicized at the time. LA will be worse. They already have big ads in the corner of the screen on tv right now. Get yourself some Autodesk!

The problem is most of the world sees these things as a national government project, and these events are largely funded that way. That’s a foreign concept over here. It needs to be run and funded privately so everything gets sponsored to the max. Same problem with the World Cup. Everything will be plastered with McDonald’s, Coke and that kind of garbage. [/quote]

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