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Car free or not. There will be tons of public transportation extraordinary options running during the Olympics. There is simply no other option to move all these people around - athletes and their crew, service people for the venues, journalists, etc. etc. Not to mention the spectators.

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That's not public transportation."Mass transportation", maybe. Shuttling athletes and their minders from the Olympic village to the venues is a different set of challenges from delivering a city's residents to their places of work, school and recreation day in, day out.

I have been thinking. Should we actually move towards reducing people involved? Like ban all spectators, just stream televise them. Journalist can get their interviews over Teams meetings. No need for dignitaries to be present either. Basically you need only athletes, maybe coaches and support staff. For catering, well develop some efficient meals that don't need heating and produce them off-site.

All this would save lot on very many things, both in emissions and in costs.

You know, we can solve all the problems if we get rid of the athletes…

Even better, let's move all the competitions to VR/Wii, that way it can all be streamed and requires much less infrastructure.

Also those expensive and big opening and closing ceremonies. Why not just do it all with generative AI. Soon no one would even notice difference, just imagine the savings.

Some events already take place at distant locations. I think they are planning on hosting the softball events out in oklahoma for this olympics.

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