pervocracy:

Can we all just agree to build permanent Olympic stadiums somewhere?  I know it’s supposed to symbolize international cooperation and such to move them around, but in practice, the Olympics have come to symbolize “let’s find one of the few countries rich enough to support this stuff, encourage them to financially and socially trash a city, then leave behind gigantic overly-specialized sports facilities that no one will ever use again.”

Let’s just find a place that has some mountainy parts and some flat parts, is snowy in the winter and warm in the summer, and say “Okay, this is where the Olympics are going to be from now on. Everywhere else on Earth, you can stop building fuck-off enormous stadiums and kicking out all your homeless people every two years.”

I’ve had the same idea for quite some time. My suggestion would be to bring the summer Olympic games back to their origin – Greece – and to keep the winter Olympics somewhere mountainous and snow safe like Norway or Canada (or somewhere in Asia maybe?) All the member states of the IOC could chip in to keep those two locations up to date, the local economy could actually benefit from the games, and a lot of bureaucracy and potential for corruption could be cut.