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Originally Posted by cameroncrazy822
Worst Ever.... hello
1972 Munich Olympics (11 killed)... hands down then the 1996 Atlanta Olympics (2 killed 111 injured)
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hmm true.. but what i was really getting at..
in terms of general flow, organisation, drugs, public transport, getting around, traffic, pollution, political interference...
these are all issues for the beijing olympic commitee.
i read somewhere last week that the olympic committee will stop the marathon if the race is run where there is more than 1hr of bad air.
to their credit the chinese government are trying to cut down the smog as much as possible, but really, its like closing the gates after the horse has bolted. this should have been resolved more than 2 or 3 years ago.
the chinese govt has introduced a system where if your car registration plate is an even number you can drive on a particular day, and if its an odd number you have have particular days.. weird i know.. but lets see how this works.
i remember sydney olympics being the best traffic flow sydney ever had. most people were given time off work to volunteer, most of those people got free public transport, and hence less cars on the rd. i remember driving from nth sydney where i worked through the centre of the CBD through suburbia to where i lived in 35 every day, where it usually took an hour at best during normal days.
i personally dont think that china deserved the olympics because they have so many question marks on a lot of issues. they missed out narrowly on sydney, and the greek games were automatically alloted to greece, so i think that it was 'chinas turn' regardless of how its run. giving it to a developing country for the sake of giving it isnt exactly the right thing to do.