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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Listen, it's not the perfect list and there's no chance it's 100% accurate. But the point that I was trying to make is that the Olympics can be PROFITABLE.
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This may have been true at one point in time, but it's just not anymore. If it were there would still be five or six bids when the IOC holds it's vote, but the last three summer games have seen bid totals going from four to three to two. The winter games haven't had more than three in 20 years. They used to regularly get five bids for both. There's a very, very low chance of profitability, with a high risk of disaster. Cities have figured it out, and better still people have. The only conceivable way it can be profitable is to have it as a rotation as Bunk suggests, and even that's no guarantee. Lots of issues coming up for governments to consider, far more important ones than the Olympics. Gambling in the hopes absolutely everything goes right isn't worth it.