Talk:Bids for the Olympic Games

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Who writes these remarks? The one about the 1996 olympics is a bit political.


 * I learned the information about the 1996 olympics from CBC News in Canada. During their nightly newscast on July 2, 2003, their network's chief correspondent, Peter Mansbridge, said that Athens hosting the 1996 Summer Olympics should have been a right, not an option, because it's the birthplace of the modern olympic games and people felt the city could usher in the second century of Olympics. -- SNIyer12 (talk), 14:16, 11 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree- it says "Remarks", not "conspiricy theories"!

Chicago 2016 host city
Chicago was awarded the bid for the 2016 Olympics on April 14, 2007. You can see in the article Chicago 2016 Olympic bid which explains it in more detail. You can also read about it here, Chicago Picked by USOC to bid for 2016 Olympics. Utvolfan08 11:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)


 * No, if you have read that article with more attention you'd see Chicago was only picked by the United States Olympic Committee to be the US bid for the 2016 Olympics, not the final 2016 Olympics host city. The 2016 bidding procedure will start this September and the winning city will be known only in 2009.  Parutakupiu  talk 16:55, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

1936
The flag for the 1936 olympics is wronf it should be the Nazi flag, could someone please replace it. Harland1 11:03, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

flags
There are several faults, due flag changes in the past:

Italy 1908: the Italian flag for Rome is right, but why is the current Italian flag used for Milan?

Germany 1916: the current German flag is used (the right one is the one which is shown for Berlin in 1908)

Egypt 1916 / 1936: both times the current Egyptian flag is shown, but Egypt didn't become independent before 1922 - therefore both flags are wrong...

Another problem with the use of flags in this table is, what is dececive the flag with which the city bid or the flag of the year of the Oympiad? E.g. Berlin bid for 1936 during the Weimar Republic therefore the "black-red-gold"-flag has to be used, but the games had been held under the Nazi-flag.
 * I changed the German flags for the bids 1936, I used the current german flag as it is close enough to the weimar variant used 1919-1933. Johan Dahlin (talk) 09:11, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

The same problem has the Spanish flag for Barcelona in 1924 and 1936 - there were several flag changes in that years, but here in the table the current Spanish flag is shown only Citius Altius Fortius (talk) 08:01, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

flag for Belgrade (1992/1996)
I found a another "flag fault": at that times the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was official - the old Yugoslav flag without star - not the Serbian Flag, how it is shown in the article Citius Altius Fortius (talk) 22:08, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

the 1984 Teheran Bid
Back before the revolution, when the Shah was still in power, Iran bid for the 1984 Olympics. There is a wonderful stor as to why this bid failed. Apparently, when it was asked what sport it would cancel (a city was permitted to cancel certain events), it said it would insist that the marathon be cancelled because of the original battle in the 5th century BC brought back memories of a great Persian loss. The IOC said that would kill any possible acceptance of the bid, and it was withdrawn.Ericl (talk) 01:52, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

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making the bid cities list right
did you know that some are the cities on the olympic bid cities list are not bid cities and it is true you should check out the olympics website olympic.org and it will tell you all of the true information on the olympic bids. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Turnerolympicfield (talk • contribs) 01:53, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Session in London 1904
On this IOC session London wasn't selected as host for 1908, but Rome - since the volcano Vesuv didn't explode before 1906 Citius Altius Fortius (talk) 22:23, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Winners of a round of voting, but don't win the Olympics and those that got the Olympics but were passed over as hosts for some reason
I think the current cities that have won a round of voting but never won an Olympics, not counting those that won a runoff round because of a tie between their city and another, (which atm, and check me because I could be wrong, is only Madrid for the Summer games, and 4 cities for the Winter, Sion, Sofia, Falun, and Pyengchang) should be reconised in some fashion as having done so (later to be changed if they do win an Olympics) as history has proven that most cities that win a round but lose out in the end do go on to be hosts for another games (Athens in 96 for example). Also, we should reconise all cities that were chosen as hosts, but later were pulled, like Hungary for the games of 1920.--184.77.51.193 (talk) 17:42, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Youth Games
Some time back Youth Games bids were added to the overall tables in this article. I think they should be in a separate article, with this article focusing solely on the major Summer/Winter Olympic Games. There are plenty of other Games (Youth, Asian, and now European) and they can all have their own bidding history articles. Jmj713 (talk) 22:07, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Tel Aviv 2048 Bid
I know it is very very early but I found an article about the Israeli city of Tel Aviv considering a bid for the 2048 Summer Olympics to celebrate Israel's 100th Anniversary. I found this article made by the administrators from gamebids.com but I doubt this would stay active. mpolidoro1128 (talk) 3 March 2016 (EST 11:18am) —Preceding undated comment added 16:18, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

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Attempted 2nd Nazi German Games
Was there an attempted 2nd Nazi German Games which was cancelled by the outbreak of WWII? 60.242.247.177 (talk) 08:38, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

"Preferred hosts"?
Why are there columns for "preferred hosts" for the 2030 Winter Olympics and the 2032 Summer Olympics? I realize that no cities have yet qualified to be "candidate cities" yet, but what does it mean to be a "preferred host"? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:02, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Oslo 2022 bid
Does Oslo 2022 bid withdrawal behave like Denver 1976, so that this can be treated as if Oslo were awarded to host the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and then withdrew? 203.185.34.190 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:16, 23 October 2021 (UTC)