Budapest bows out of 2024 Olympics.

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@Dewey_Finn

They released a report recently called Olympic Agenda 2020, in part to address the ballooning costs. One proposal is to allow shared bids from two countries, so if Norway and Sweden want to share hosting duties for the winter games, that will be possible. I think they’re also looking at using existing facilities for some events. (For example, for every summer games, they build a whitewater course for kayaking events. But that’s not something that’s going to get much use after the games are over.)

I’ll have to read that when I have some time, but allowing joint hosting bids just seems like a way to fleece two countries instead of one. I wonder if they’d consider truly radical proposals like holding the whitewater kayaking events on a river.

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We don’t need permanent locations for the games, but the IOC really needs to accept that the games need to be lower key and stop insisting host cities build a brand spanking new everything.