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  • #31
    Originally posted by DanS View Post
    Usually, big events like this don't make sense -- and sometimes they get way out of hand and bankrupt a city or country.
    I'd be interested in the last time the Olympics made a city money.
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    • #32
      97 votes in the first round ... three from North America
      Says it all.
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      • #33
        well in the first round only, after chicago was eliminated it goes up to 5.
        It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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        • #34
          LA in 84 did. I think Atlanta did as well but I'm not sure.
          We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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          • #35
            Chicago should have seen this coming. One thing we know is how to stack the deck in an election.
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            • #36
              DP
              We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
              If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
              Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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              • #37
                The world was a little less ANTI US back then.
                It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
                RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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                • #38
                  London, Ontario to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil = 8302km.
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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by SpencerH View Post
                    LA in 84 did. I think Atlanta as well but not sure.
                    Doesn't include the cost to the city from security etc. No Olympics has ever made money when everything in factored in, unless you begin to do analysis of more nebulous things like increased trade/tourism in the period after the Olympics.
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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by rah View Post
                      Of course Europe has such a ridiculous % of the votes.
                      That should be changed. 44 of 97.

                      There are 97 votes up for grabs in the first round.

                      They include 11 from Latin America, which includes the Caribbean, 10 from Asia, eight from the Middle East, 16 from Africa, five from Australia and the Pacific island nations, three from North America, and 44 from Europe.
                      Well, usually Latin American countries vote for the Western Hemisphere city. This year there were two, and obviously they'd go with Rio, which would be the first South American city to get one. So Chicago needed to try to convince Africa and Pacific Island because it lost its biggest potential base.

                      And "that should be changed"? What, get rid of some countries in Europe?
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                      • #41
                        "Nebulous Things" would be a good name for a rock band.
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                        • #42
                          Still see no reason for the Euros to pick Rio over Chicago- at least in the 1st round.

                          I guess knowing the breakdown of the votes Daley et al. should've been trying to just avoid 1st round elimination.
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                          • #43
                            Originally posted by Theben View Post
                            Still see no reason for the Euros to pick Rio over Chicago- at least in the 1st round.
                            1st South American Olympics.
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                            • #44
                              This is how the voting apparently went:

                              Madrid 28, Rio 26, Tokyo 22, Chicago 18 (Round 1)
                              Rio 46, Madrid 29, Tokyo 20 (Round 2)
                              Rio 66, Madrid 32 (Round 3)
                              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                              • #45
                                Looks like Tokyo tried and succeeded to avoid 1st round elimination. After their candidates were eliminated, all of the American and Asian votes went to Rio.
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