Vancouver would enter uncharted territory if it ever won the right to co-host a Summer Olympics. No city has ever hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and there have never been official co-hosts of any Games, although equestrian events for the 1956 Melbourne Games were held in Stockholm because of quarantine issues. Japan and South Korea co-hosted the 2002 World Cup of soccer.
Vancouver and Seattle businessmen tried in the early 1990s to create a two-city bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics and even met with International Olympic Committee officials in Europe. But they were told the cross-border concept wouldn't work and Tourism Vancouver refused to support the proposal.
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First, I dislike what the olymics have come to stand for and that is money, money, money and steroid driven winners that are only interested in money, money, money.
Second, if I DID like the olymipics I would not consider sharing the cost with a nearby city a bad thing. They are getting outrageously expensive which takes me back to my first comment about the it's all about the money money money thing which is why I dislike the olympics. Go back to running across the Sahara Desert barefoot and playing hockey on an outdoor frozen lake and I may consider the olympics an actual sporting event again.
Third, globalization is just capitalism on olympic-style steroids and just as distasteful as the olympics.
Fourth, if the evangelicals and the Harper government have their way with the world's environment 2028 will be a non-issue, unless of course the "athletes" will be wearing gasmasks and or carrying oxygen tanks, which could take us back to the equivalent of running across the Sahara barefoot and thinking about it, I just may enjoy watching that. So until 2028 forget the olympics.
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