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Post by unification on Aug 13, 2012 17:40:34 GMT
I'm sceptical about bidding for it again simply because it would be so hard to replicate what everyone from the top to the bottom achieved this year. It's like having a brilliant time on holiday somewhere and going back the next year only to find you can't quite replicate the fun you had the year previously.
With that in mind, why not make good and proper use of the infrastructure we have built for these games? Make the Olympic Stadium home to a football team but ensure that any seats that go over the track can be removed for major athletics events. Put major bids forward for the world and European athletics, swimming and diving championships and show the world that we can do sport like no other country can. The legacy doesn't have to just getting kids into sport, but showcasing the UK as the main place to see the best athletes in the world competing.
Perhaps Manchester and Birmingham could go for a joint bid together? Manchester has a lot of infrastructure in place already after the Commonwealth Games and it wouldn't take too much to get Birmingham into a fit and ready shape for a major sporting event. Another huge athletics stadium would be needed which would bring with it it's own problems like the one in Stratford, but both could manage it. I'm sure joint bids are frowned upon by the IOC though and would probably cause more of a rift between the two cities than anything!
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Post by tonyw on Aug 13, 2012 17:55:50 GMT
Well, we already have the 2017 World Athletics Championships in the bag. We're apparently bidding for the 2016 World Track Cycling Championships. And we're bidding for the 2016 European Aquatics Championship
World aquatics Championships though they've already awarded out to 2017. Be 2019 before we can hope to bring them to town.
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Post by hartlyhare on Aug 13, 2012 20:23:03 GMT
the septics had the games in 84 and 96 ....so why not have another go .
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Post by Boogaloo on Aug 13, 2012 20:56:36 GMT
we may be biding for 2024 according to ssn. I hope not. Not that I don't want to see them here again, but it would be a ridiculous waste of money. The fact we held them in 2012 would strongly count against us. Although having said that, Atlanta got them in 1996 after LA had them in 1984.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2012 22:50:47 GMT
we may be biding for 2024 according to ssn. I hope not. Not that I don't want to see them here again, but it would be a ridiculous waste of money. The fact we held them in 2012 would strongly count against us. Although having said that, Atlanta got them in 1996 after LA had them in 1984.They're over 2000 miles apart it's slightly different.
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Post by Chris1986 on Aug 13, 2012 23:21:11 GMT
we may be biding for 2024 according to ssn. I hope not. Not that I don't want to see them here again, but it would be a ridiculous waste of money. The fact we held them in 2012 would strongly count against us. Although having said that, Atlanta got them in 1996 after LA had them in 1984. I don't see any point in bidding again so soon either. It costs an absolute fortune to bid for these events and the chance of getting it so soon after it has finished here is pretty slim. I'm not against going for it again in my lifetime but at least leave it 20 years. I also think it's a bit selfish to think we deserve it again and that nobody else can do as good a job as us. We are aiming for this "legacy" well what gives us the right to try and deny other countries having their own legacies from staging the games by trying to hold it again in 12 years. Also to add to the list of events, Glasgow has the common wealth games in 2 years time.
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Post by ounykee14 on Aug 14, 2012 0:01:53 GMT
Birmingham and Manchester were looked at instead of London but both were beaten twice in a row, and the committee were basically told the only way the UK would get the games would be if London had it, and I can't see that changing anytime soon.
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Post by fishpaste on Aug 17, 2012 20:43:24 GMT
Anybody who thinks that a city other than London could host a UK Olympic games is extremely misguided. In fact, you are a fruitcake. It will never happen.
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Post by tonyw on Aug 20, 2012 16:52:58 GMT
Well, we already have the 2017 World Athletics Championships in the bag. We're apparently bidding for the 2016 World Track Cycling Championships. And we're bidding for the 2016 European Aquatics Championship World aquatics Championships though they've already awarded out to 2017. Be 2019 before we can hope to bring them to town. And here's an even closer one for rowing fans: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rowing/19318884
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Post by Simon Lill on Aug 20, 2012 17:04:21 GMT
Well, we already have the 2017 World Athletics Championships in the bag. We're apparently bidding for the 2016 World Track Cycling Championships. And we're bidding for the 2016 European Aquatics Championship World aquatics Championships though they've already awarded out to 2017. Be 2019 before we can hope to bring them to town. And here's an even closer one for rowing fans: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rowing/19318884Was just about to post the same. Can't see us being given the Olympics again any time soon, but the infrastructure thats now in place, plus the assurance that we can deliver tournaments at the higest level will stand us in good stead for individual events. And who knows, maybe next time we bid for a football world cup we'll be able to cite the Olympics as firm unquestionable proof, that we can do it as well as any other nation!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 8:52:51 GMT
I wouldn't want Turkey to be awarded anything while they still occupy Cyprus Don't we still occupy part of Ireland?
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Post by foghornleghorn on Sept 4, 2012 10:36:16 GMT
I wouldn't want Turkey to be awarded anything while they still occupy Cyprus Don't we still occupy part of Ireland? Is that straight out of the IRA hand book? LG's your man for this stuff, but there's never been an 'occupation' of Ireland to my knowledge.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 10:53:30 GMT
OK it was a bad analogy, I didn't mean to imply that Northern Ireland is a similar situation to North Cyprus, maybe a better one would be our illegal invasion of Iraq?
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Post by foghornleghorn on Sept 4, 2012 12:30:02 GMT
OK it was a bad analogy, I didn't mean to imply that Northern Ireland is a similar situation to North Cyprus, maybe a better one would be our illegal invasion of Iraq? May be Gibraltar? I'm pretty sure we knicked that
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Post by Lone Gunman on Sept 4, 2012 20:17:27 GMT
Don't we still occupy part of Ireland? Is that straight out of the IRA hand book? LG's your man for this stuff, but there's never been an 'occupation' of Ireland to my knowledge. I am!?
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Post by foghornleghorn on Sept 4, 2012 21:22:44 GMT
Is that straight out of the IRA hand book? LG's your man for this stuff, but there's never been an 'occupation' of Ireland to my knowledge. I am!? Well you always seem to take me and my ulster proddy rhetoric to task using 'facts' and stuff
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Post by Lone Gunman on Sept 4, 2012 21:30:21 GMT
Well you always seem to take me and my ulster proddy rhetoric to task using 'facts' and stuff 'Facts,' what are they? Anyway, I only read the Green Book once and i didn't like it. There's a funny bit in the back where it talks about homosexuality a lot though.
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