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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
TV rights to the games are sold well in advance of the actual hosting site being chosen. In your hypo, the host site would still get the money, CBC would still be out the $, the companies who bought ads would be out the $, but the reduced viewership for this set of games would reduce the $ paid for the media rights to future games, since the viewership : $ ratio would be off.
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Calling all lawyers. Huge lawsuits by the people that bought advertising.
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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
Alternatively, and just an idea here, but have a boycott and the nations that boycotted can have their own Olympics at the same time (or slightly later). I'm sure there are a few cities that could host such an event without too much notice and planning--maybe Vancouver could actually get some snow this time around.
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Bring back the goodwill games Ted, and add monster trucks as a medal event.
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