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by blackeyeblitzar 700 days ago
Why should we care about the Olympic Games? It is a huge expense and has no convincing positive return. Meanwhile local residents have their lives disrupted for weeks and months and gain nothing much from it. No thanks. Keep the probe going, call their bluff, and let them collapse into obscurity like beauty pageants.
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I agree on calling the bluff. They should, what will the IOC/WADA do? Cancel it? Try to find another sucker with a short notice? But SLC isn't a bad place for a winter Olympics, they hosted it before not long ago and some of the national team facilities are there using things built for the 2002 Olympics. Of course, many more people live there now.