Reply #19: It sounded like a good idea and probably still does to many

[KurtNYC]

New York already has a big variety of facilities and we can make athletes from just about any country feel at home. But the current thrust of the IOC is for cheaper games and that has been ignored.

A local weekly has this headline in kiosk's all over the city:


They include this fact in their argument:

Economists disagree with each other about almost everything. It should tell us something that every economist who has studied stadiums agrees that they don't generate economic growth. It should tell us something when a Stanford economist says, "opening a branch of Macy's" has more economic impact on San Francisco than the San Francisco Giants do. It should tell us something that in study after study, cities with stadiums do no better, in terms of jobs or growth or image, than cities without them.

http://www.nypress.com/18/7/pagetwo/newshole7.cfm

I have the perfect ad buster for London's IOC ads. Apparently they have written "back the bid" on everything that stands upright in the city of London. Make a sticker that has "Fe" in the right size to cover the first two letters of 'Back the Bid'. You slap the sticker on and bingo -- "Fe ck the bid"

I think the answer is to have the games in the same place every four years. Athens seems appropriate but they probably don't want them either.