I'm sure they'd pull a Greek Baseball team and get the Thrashers to represent them.SwisshockeyAcademy said:Sounds like paradise. The Georgian hockey team would be an interesting one.
I'm sure they'd pull a Greek Baseball team and get the Thrashers to represent them.SwisshockeyAcademy said:Sounds like paradise. The Georgian hockey team would be an interesting one.
Slitty said:Siberia isn't a city or a administrative district... it couldn't possibly be running for the Olympics. Either someone on these boards or in the North American media is stupid. The city running is Sochi, a black sea resort, and probably the biggest summetime vacation spot in Russia.
SwisshockeyAcademy said:Sounds like paradise. The Georgian hockey team would be an interesting one.
Pantokrator said:Yeah, saying the Olympics are in Siberia is like saying the Summer olympics will be played in the Sahara, or in the Amazon rain forest.
BruinsGirl said:Do you have any idea how big Siberia is???
There are different climate zones there.
First I have seen of her. 16 years old. Any good at hockey?BruinsGirl said:Ya... but have you seen georgian figure skater GEDEVANISHVILI Elene ?
http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/ATH/100811.html
Pantokrator said:China would be a good host for the winter games. Skiiing in the Himalayas would be awesome! Plus, I want to snowboarders ride down Everest (just make the jump to Nepal).
Legionnaire said:That'd shut Bryant Gumbel up!
the fact that there aren't any North American bids is a bigger detriment.Drake1588 said:By and large, the Olympics are no longer awarded consecutively to countries on the same continent. It's certainly the case where the Summer Games are concerned, and it's increasingly what happens in the Winter Games. North America has no chance. None.
heh, indeed it does. This is itself telling, however: It's so ingrained in the IOC process that no N.A. team even made it this far or took a 2014 bid seriously, just four years after the Vancouver Games, since there's no chance. It could go right back to Europe, I suppose, but by and large this only happens when Asia doesn't have a horse in the race.Hasbro said:the fact that there aren't any North American bids is a bigger detriment.
Yep. I have a hunch the 2016 Summer games are going to Paris and failing that somewhere in Europe because the IOC doesn't want to mess with New York, which would make the Winter Games likely for America in 2018.Drake1588 said:heh, indeed it does. This is itself telling, however: It's so ingrained in the IOC process that no N.A. team even made it this far or took a 2014 bid seriously, just four years after the Vancouver Games, since there's no chance. It could go right back to Europe, I suppose, but by and large this only happens when Asia doesn't have a horse in the race.
go kim johnsson 514 said:Me too or Russia...Bettman won't go if games are played in the middle of the night. It's not really condusive unless they're played in North America, but I think he'd go with Europe too. I don't know where Sochi is, but it will be definetaly no way if they're in South Korea or Kazakhstan.
I don't think any of those non-traditional cities for winter olympics will be picked? Spain, Georgia, Bulgaria I'd bet a pretty penny that they all had maybe 40 athletes combined, and South Korea had 40 athletes, but the only ones we ever hear from are speed skaters.
I think they'll wait until 2018 to go back to Asia
Raimo Sillanpää said:Helsinki-Lillehammer bid.
Plain absurd and ultimately arrogant. There are people in Asia as well, remember? And way more than in Northamerica.ScottyBowman said:The olympics should only be in North America or Europe. No offense to people in Japan or Austrailia but that was ridiculous when we had to deal with those crazy time differences. I remember when the world cup was in Korea and the games started at 2 am... that was messed up.
Den said:There's no chance the same city get the Games in the span of less then 2 decades
Raimo Sillanpää said:Lillehammer woudn't have got the games, it'd just have hosted the alpine skiing.
Russia has the same problem if say St Petersburg wanted the games, you need mountains for the alpine skiing..
Wisent said:I`d be for South Korea. I remember Seoul and they were very good games.