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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It's worth noting that 2022 Winter Olympics proposals for Germany and Switzerland have been rejected by voters worried about costs, and Sweden also pulled out because of the cost. Oven in oil-rich Norway, over half of voters are opposed to hosting the Games. And these are affluent countries with very strong winter sports traditions.
Given the state of government finances in most Western democracies, if left to voters, I see few of those countries willing to take on Olympics going forward. Instead, they'll be hosted by autocracies like Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, or non-Western countries who want to show they've arrived, like South Korea and Brazil.
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Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway are very small countries compared to the average nation that's hosted an Olympics in the last few decades, it would be very hard for them to do it and not go into debt. Germany could easily, but with how weak the EU economy is right now with them being really the only thing keeping it from collapsing I can see their hesitation