Slasher1985 said:
Read it all, general August.
I incline to agree with the choice of Tokyo as host city for many reasons besides the tennis reasons. If Nishioka matures enough, maybe Japan can run for the tennis gold metal at such an edition.
Kei will be 30 during those Olympics, so probably past his best years. But we've seen 30+ guys like Ferrer and Haas playing well, Nishikori could still play well then and maybe battle for the gold. I guess he must like playing at the Ariake Coliseum, as he won a title there last year.
britbox said:
August said:
Hello all!
I wrote about the 2020 Olympics bids in my blog. It's quite long a text but it has also some tennis-related stuff. You can find my opinion on which would be the best place for the Olympic tennis and also a bit about the Fuentes case as Spain is one of the bidding nations.
http://augustonsports.blogspot.fi/2013/08/my-view-on-2020-summer-olympics-bids.html
Interesting read. I have no idea why Spain are bidding for the Olympics. They only held it in 92, and the country is upto it's eyeballs in economic woes. Hosting the Olympics is generally a big drain on public finances.
Guess who are bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics? Barcelona, with snow sports being held at the Pyrenees. In Spain's economic situation, I could find better use for money than Olympics bids. Even though Winter Olympics wouldn't be so expensive to host than the summer games, I rather have Spain hosting the Winter Olympics.
Clay Death said:
countries like spain and Greece can do without the Olympics these days.
they have had their day in the sun.
excellent read general august. I think Tokyo will work.
I should find the article where you could see the current state of some of the Athens Olympics venues, as nobody looked after them. And the Valencia F1 street circuit. It hosted the last race last year and the pit building really isn't in a great shape now, they couldn't afford looking after it.
But sad that it will probably take forever to get Olympics back to Greece, Olympics' home country. I'm not sure they can afford another Olympics in my lifetime (and I don't think a 23 y.o. is an old guy). Too bad they didn't originally decide to give the games permanently to Greece, instead they build white elephants to different cities every fourth year.
And as I mentioned in the blog, Rome withdrew their bid for the 2020 Games. Well, according to
Wikipedia, they have interest to host the 2022 games, as if they wouldn't need the money otherwise.
