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It feels like we've been tip-toeing in the direction of multi-host Olympics.

For the Paris Olympics, the surfing was on the other side of the world in Tahiti (French Polynesia).

The LA Olympics bid decided they didn't want to build any new facilities, and most events will be at existing facilities around LA, but softball and canoeing events will be in Oklahoma due to better facilities that exist there: https://la28.org/en/games-plan/venues.html

Doesn't seem like much more of a stretch to have a USA-hosted Olympics with events around the country.

The big downside of course being less interaction between athletes from various sports, but I think at this point, where you've got over 10,000 athletes, you could still probably split that into several cities and have big, joyous celebrations in each.

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Every Olympic sport has an annual championship in different cities at different times in Olympic off years. Having everyone together in one place at one time is what makes the Olympics special. Special for the athletes, live spectators & host city alike. The more the Olympics are spread out physically, the less special it is for the most people.

On the other hand, I know this is a little naive since most of the money revolves around TV rights. Also, as a TV spectator, 24 hour live coverage (like the Watanabe is suggesting in the article) of the Olympics sounds pretty cool. I wonder if the TV networks would like this. It probably solves a lot of the logistical issues host cities have been having as well. This also avoids the worst outcome of coming to a point where only a few host cities, like LA and Paris, can reasonably meet all the IOC's demands games after games.

> Having everyone together in one place at one time is what makes the Olympics special. Special for the athletes, live spectators & host city alike.

A good idea in theory, but in practice the cost of hosting the entire Olympics in a single city has become so cost-prohibitive infrastructure-wise that very few are even willing to do it anymore. We already see that with the winning LA bid for the next summer Olympics, where they're not building anything new to host it.

>It feels like we've been tip-toeing in the direction of multi-host Olympics.

I wish they would just pick one place to hold their shenanigans and stay there.

Yes, I hated the bullshit that occured behind the scenes in 2020 Tokyo and hope one of the most cancerous and corrupt organizations ever never shits up Japan again.

My sympathies to any athletes who sincerely just want to play and compete, but the event itself is trash.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in Canada, USA and Mexico. I do think spreading things out makes a lot of sense. Slightly less incentive for corruption, too.

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