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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
Well that just isn't true at all. Lake Placid held the Winter Olympics twice with a 50 year gap in between the dates (1932 and 1980).
In the Summer Olympics London (3X - 1908, 1948, 2012), Athens (1896, 2004) and Los Angeles (1932, 1984).
The fact is that a city hosting the Olympics twice is very rare and I don't think holding onto an expensive building to maintain would be a good use of funds, especially if done out of the hope of an Olympic games in the future.
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Two other cities also hosted the winters twice.
I'm not saying that we should hold on to a building just for the sake of the olympics, I'm just saying there is a very real chance that we get the winter games again within our lifetimes (Well maybe not some of you guys
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Winter games have a lot less options for host cities when you consider that they have to rotate the games around the world. Especially if they keep growing in size, popularity and # of events.