By Didn’t the Governor of Tokyo just say the 2016 games were likely to be the last? From AP-
Hiroshima and Nagasaki – site of atomic bombings in World War II – are teaming up to make a bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics that will emphasize world peace.
Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue announced on Sunday that they will form a joint bid committee. The mayors are founding members of the Mayors for Peace 2020 Vision Campaign, which advocates for a global ban on nuclear arms.
“The Olympics symbolize the abolition of nuclear arms and world peace, and we want to work to realize our plan to host the games,” Akiba said.
No, the Olympics have nothing to do with nuclear disarmament. If the Nobel Prize committe is determining the site of future Olympics, Nagasaki and Hiroshima may well be chosen using this argument, otherwise it is a pipe dream.
1:44 pm on October 11th, 2009 1
Too politically charged. Even in 2020.
3:22 pm on October 11th, 2009 2
I think the whole thing would bomb.
Then again, it might be the bomb.
5:03 pm on October 11th, 2009 3
I don't think it's politically charged…But I don't think people appreciate being made to feel guilty if they don't pick a certain town (the old lady trying to guilt people into voting for Pyeongchang as the site of the 2010 Winter Games certainly didn't work).
5:46 pm on October 11th, 2009 4
On second thought…
The Japanese actually have a good idea here. Maybe holding the Olympic games in the spirit of peace is a good idea.
Pearl Harbor 2020 Summer Olympics!
9:03 pm on October 11th, 2009 5
…now if only there was an effective and tested way to level out sections of the cities to make way for Olympic construction and urban renewal.
4:29 am on October 12th, 2009 6
Nanking 2020?
7:33 am on October 12th, 2009 7
It will go to Delhi in 2020.
7:55 am on October 12th, 2009 8
It probably will go to India in 2020. Really, aside from National Prestige the Olympics are a total joke. Expensive as hell and once they’re over you got decades of debt to pay off. China is having a very hard time saving the Birds Nest, although I think they recently had some big show there.
So, let the rest of the world have the freaking Olympics, one of the most commercialized and boring sporting events I can possibly imagine. The World Cup next year is a hundred times more exciting.