Honestly I’ve noticed countries finally realizing this.

Paris and LA won 2024 and 2028 simultaneously (and respectively) bc everybody pulled their bids and Paris and LA were the only ones left.

Brisbane won 2032 bc nobody else bid.

2036 seems to have multiple bids but let’s see who actually makes it to the voting stage.

Just bribe the right people.

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>The real people at risk from the cartels here are those involved in planning the olympics. Bribes, intimidation, and murder of officials will likely be used to ensure cartel connected businesses are awarded contracts.

I wonder if they even need to do this anymore since I'd assume they already own everything.

> Not being the worst doesn't make a bad one any better.

Except this is what you said:

>worst air quality imaginable

If there are dozens of cities with worse air quality, than it is very easy to imagine worse air quality.

Next time, simply don't lie.

A lot like the U.S. government protects you. Governments have historically been organized criminal organizations.

Right?

Do people have any idea how much illicit business will be going down over 3 months?

Hookers, gambling and drugs will be flying off the shelves.

I’ll patiently await the jomboy breakdown

Already making trips around NA for the World Cup in 2026 so would love to see Olympics on the continent.

Cartel would probably be providing security. I could be completely wrong but Cartels couldn't afford the type of heat kidnapping /murdering athletes or tourists while the world is watching would bring.

It's the same reason the Cartel gave up members to authorities and apologized a few weeks ago when the 4 Americans were kidnapped. They don't want a true us intervention.

China shut down all the factories - during the Olympics they had clear skies.

Well the Olympic long jump record is still from Mexico City in 1968 and has only been beaten once since. His jump in 1968 beat the existing world record by almost 2 feet.

Yes, but it is entirely possible for more than one city to have poor air quality at the same time. Not being the worst doesn't make a bad one any better.

China was an interesting case. Beijing is a communist country and they were able to absolutely shut things down hard for the Olympics to reduce pollution. When the games were over it went right back up to their usual horrible levels.

Interestingly, there was a study done about the effects of the sudden drop in pollution on residents and their metabolite levels before and after.

Centurion is just up the road from the bullring (Wanderers) where SA chased down 434 in that epic 2003 ODI.

I'm guessing the altitude helps.

Mexico right off the Gulf, how amazing would it be to go to Mexico for the Olympics! Maybe I'll be able to make it out there

Your same link shows dozens of cities are significantly worse meaning it is nowhere near the worst air quality imaginable.

Beijing was hitting 400 in the run up to their Olympics.

Think they can clean that mess up in 12 years? Doubt it. The government there has no will.

In the continuing saga of how you're wrong, you picked out the proven lie to attempt to make a point.

Lochte wasn't robbed. That's the lie he told but it was actually proven that the "robbers" were security guards and what they were doing was stopping him and a group of other swimmers since they were pissing on the side of a gas station and vandalized a framed poster of some kind.

I can kind of give the media a pass for the initial mistake since swimming was one of the bigger Olympic sports for Americans at the time, but the correction was issued months later and you've had eight years of debunking that source already.

Duarte canceled the (very badly needed) new airport in Mexico City, after construction had already begun. In no universe could the current MEX airport handle anything even slightly above its current passenger capacity.

(Unless, of course, this whole Olympic gambit is just a strategy to re-start the canceled new airport! In which case, it would totally be worth it.)

Why do countries keep falling for this scam?

Isn’t that the World Cup plan?

Like they did with the Mexico City Airport?

Taking a page right out of The Kentucky Fried Movie.

So the cartels will all be gone in the next 13-17 years?

One of the main reasons Australia is hosting it is due to the fact we already have all the facilities needed and those being built will have a use after the Olympics