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Originally Posted by Willravel
Are the winter games Olympics? Besides, I doubt Dubai would want the Summer Olympics anyway. The city is still under construction and would need a lot of infrastructure to support that size of an event. The Winter Olympics might just be perfect. |
Are the Winger Games Olympics? Are McNuggets chicken? Yeah, technically....
Will, in the context we're talking here, the Winter Games barely register. There are one quarter of the events. Half of them happen indoors. The logistics are simply different. So, again, get the fuck out of this thread if you're going to talk about Winter Games.
If you want to talk about infrastructure, realize that you've got to have the ability to have top-notch facilities for every single sport in a Games. All the skiing events would kill Dubai pretty much immediately. Not that they don't ski there (I don't feel like finding the thread we had on that last year), but to do the luge, bobsled, Alpine skiing, cross country skiing on 20k loops, it's pretty much assinine to think that they could build ALL that in time for 2014, which were already awarded to Sochi, Russia, by the way. And I'm sure our Canadian friends are already excited about Vancouver in 2010.
So, let's stop with the silly suggestions about Winter Games. They barely register in terms of complexity when compared to Summer Games, especially given the sheer number of different venues needed comparatively.