Why India and Brazil Should Never Host The Olympics Very interesting article by Nathan Hegedus about the theme. Click here to read it.
Olympics or World Cup are never a good investment, even in places like Atlanta or Los Angeles. University of Maryland Professor Dennis Coates wrote a series of op-eds recently about the US World Cup bid. This is from his Atlanta piece: The bad news is that despite the U.S. Bid Committee's argument that the tournament will be a major moneymaker for the U.S. economy, the facts don't back up the claims.
The bad news is that despite the U.S. Bid Committee's argument that the tournament will be a major moneymaker for the U.S. economy, the facts don't back up the claims.
What Americans Need to Know About a U.S. World Cup Bid," which reviewed the economics of megaevents and found that among other aberrations, a rosy prediction of a $4 billion positive impact from the 1994 World Cup was far off target. Instead of a $4 billion gain, post-Cup analysis revealed up to a $9 billion loss across the country.
Brazilians' chauvinistic passion to support its athletes in the last "hemispheric Olympics'' frequently has turned as ugly as nationalism often does, leading to questions about whether they would behave similarly at the Olympics that Rio hopes to host in 2016.
The ferocity of the booing has shocked even battle-hardened Games veterans like Canada's Susan Nattrass, who was stunned to hear cheering each time she missed a shot in the trapshooting competition. "To cheer for their own shooter when they hit the target, which we don't often see in our sport, is one thing," Nattrass, Canada's flag bearer in the opening ceremonies, said. "But to cheer when the other shooters miss is just wrong. It's poor etiquette."
The hosts offer no apologies for their behavior. Claudio Motta, media manager for the Brazilian Olympic Committee, said Brazilian sports fans were weaned on a soccer culture where such behavior was not only acceptable but expected. It is really poor sportsmanship