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by lokar 1589 days ago
It seems like there was this crazy escalation of spending promises to win the bid. At some point responsible democracies dropped out, the irresponsible democracies, so all that was left were authoritarian nations looking to improve their image without changing.

Now it seems like even the authoritarian nations are deciding it's to expensive and you see responsible democracies getting back in with more realistic bids.
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lokar 1589 days ago
And of course the IOC is somehow more corrupt then FIFA, which is a real accomplishment.
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dotBen 1589 days ago
Except that the next Olympics are due to be held in France, Italy, USA, Australia - and only one of those is partly an authoritarian nation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_Games_host_cit...

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greatgib 1589 days ago
If you follow a little bit France on news or Twitter, you will see that Paris is kind of an authoritarian city with a mayor that created in a few years a debt that no one had seen before.

Now, most normal people in France would have like the thing to be cancelled instead of having their taxes being wasted with that

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lokar 1589 days ago
AIUI, these new bids are pretty modest, without much new spending/infra
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voakbasda 1589 days ago
Only one? Love your optimism.
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