Kyoto, Johannesburg, Prague, Dublin, and Istanbul all come to mind.
Istanbul is one of the finalists for 2020, along with Tokyo and Madrid. It could happen.
Half of New York already lives in New Jersey so it shouldn’t be a problem. Hold the swimming events in the East River and divide the rest between Madison Square Garden and the Meadowlands.
Easy-peasy lemon squeezy.
Ugh.
Las Vegas, of course. The first Fall Olympic Games.
San Diego seems like it would be a perfect place to have the Summer Games.
Not true.
San Francisco hit the top ten in 1870, and remained there until the beginning of the 20th century, when the earthquake and the contemporary dramatic influx of Americans into southern California shifted the state’s population balance from North to South.
I’d be interested in hearing the argument for Dublin over a hundred or more other cities. How is Dublin important?
I’m starting to think Istanbul’s a good choice though.
Istanbul, Singapore, Buenos Aires, and St. Petersburg come to mind.
To that list I might add Cape Town, Delhi, and Chicago. Mexico City should get another one, too.
Dublin is in the top 30 GaWC Global Cities. Global city - Wikipedia
Madrid, obviously. Before the whole country went broke.
Baghdad.
Ya sick puppy. That said, how many kills for a Gold?
Lake Placid is about a 5 hour drive from NYC, so I don’t think it counts as an example of an Olympics held in that city.
There are many great cities that have never been Olympic host cities. This is because the “greatness” of a city is low on the priority list of what the IOC considers when it decides on the host. Not only that, but many great cities have never bid for the games.
I’d like to hear an argument for Dublin being less important than Helsinki or Montreal or Barcelona or Amsterdam or Atlanta etc..
Helsinki, Montreal, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Atlanta have all held the Olympics before and so are disqualified by the rules of the OP. We are not comparing Dublin to those cities. We’re comparing Dublin to New York City, Istanbul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cairo, Madrid, and Delhi.
Indeed, in the OP I note Atlanta was a ridiculous choice. I’m asking for the GREATEST cities, not just “any place better than Atlanta,” which would be a hell of a long list.
It is never going to, either, if you use the city limits, as that cite does. There is nothing wrong with the cite, or in using the city limits.
If you use the metropolitan statistical area, it is currently 9th in the US.
Both ways of measuring population are valid and useful.
Qualities the IOC officials consider: (1) the size of the potential host city’s bribe to said officials, and (2) see no. 1.
Istanbul would be awesome. But I think the answer has to be New York.
I wonder if they’ll run out of cities that want to host the Olympics? It’s such a costly undertaking. Plus, in todays world there’s terrorism to worry about. Great Britain literally called in the Army and Navy to secure the London Olympics.
At some point, they need to pick a permanent site. Maybe even host the Pan Pacific and World Championships Games there too? That way the site gets regular use.