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there is a petition to open an investigation to look into how she made it to the Olympics in the first place
 
El Caliente said:
I had no idea that country’s were able to select which sports to put in play in the Olympics. So, France requested breakdancing, and LA requested football and to omit boxing.
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The IOC pushed around host countries for forever until recently when only the nutty countries wanted to host (thats how we got a 2nd Beijing Olympics, when the only other bid was from Kazakhstan)

Host cities are getting more power now. Not sure I agree with omitting boxing which is an absolute staple and easily accommodated, but I completely understand why most countries wouldn't want to spend billions on a bunch of baseball stadiums they'll never use for example.
 
has anyone ever attended the Olympics?

Which one? Which events did you see?

We are talking about going to LA in 28
 
Optimus Prime said:
has anyone ever attended the Olympics?

Which one? Which events did you see?

We are talking about going to LA in 28
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I attended the Winter Olympics in Torino in 2006. But, I guess you're asking about summer events. I will say that the unexpected cool thing about those Olympics is that for every "A" event ticket we bought, we also had to get a "B" event. A couple of those "B" events were a lot of fun - especially Curling. We did buy some "A" event tickets online, which did get you around the two ticket requirement.

We did have a great time. There were some great athletes and the interaction with fans from all over the world was a trip.
 
CajunInVA said:
I attended the Winter Olympics in Torino in 2006. But, I guess you're asking about summer events. I will say that the unexpected cool thing about those Olympics is that for every "A" event ticket we bought, we also had to get a "B" event. A couple of those "B" events were a lot of fun - especially Curling. We did buy some "A" event tickets online, which did get you around the two ticket requirement.

We did have a great time. There were some great athletes and the interaction with fans from all over the world was a trip.
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I was asking about either

That's cool

It's something I'd love to do one day, definitely would love to see the opening ceremony

The B event thing is interesting, probably a good way to get people to see sports they aren't as familiar with
 
Optimus Prime said:
I was asking about either

That's cool

It's something I'd love to do one day, definitely would love to see the opening ceremony

The B event thing is interesting, probably a good way to get people to see sports they aren't as familiar with
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Definitely. We would not have purchased tickets to curling otherwise, and now we are fans.

I know kayak cross became a thing this year and it was cool. In the Torino Olympics, I think another B event ticket we got that was awesome was the snow board cross. The beginning was boring because it was the snowboarders riding the course alone for time, to qualify (and it was in the middle of a small snow storm), but once they got that situated, the 4 athletes on the course at one time was crazy (and the sun came out). An American who wasn't expected to win ended up taking that gold.

My Dad worked security for the Atlanta Olympics (FBI Agent - was on the field for gold medal women's soccer match and got a pat on the butt from Mia Hamm) and hated the event because it was so commercial and such a money grab. Torino wasn't like that, and hopefully LA won't be either. As us Saints fans know, Atlanta doesn't do anything well). But I think I'm interested in going to LA.
 

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