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Originally Posted by Weitz
If it’s such a good deal why isn’t everyone clamouring to host it?
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Thats like looking at a business for sale and asking why everyone isn't in a bidding war for it. Certain things need to make sense for a host city:
- do they have a cost advantage they can leverage? Proximity to mountains, not having to build venues from scratch, enough people, enough money, support of a government, etc.
- will they benefit from doing the Olympics? future tourism, capital improvements, economic upheaval directly from the event
- do they have the existing infrastructure to host? enough hotels, large enough population, large enough city
- do they have a social/cultural ability to host?
A lot of things need to be considered for each host city and one size certainly does not fit all.